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An invisible place made manifest
Esa Jaske Collection
2001, oil on canvas
133 x 178 cm
Reproduced in 'JAMES GLEESON DRAWINGS FOR PAINTINGS',
ISBN 0 7347 6340 9, by Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, page 123.
(Published to accompany an exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 April to 15 June 2003.)
"The Surrealist art of James Gleeson finds masterly expression in this major painting, An Invisible
Place Made Manifest, where the explorations of an enquiring mind are matched by images of the
phantasmagorical. Given its dramatic presentation and theatrical splendour, this futuristic
landscape could be straight out of a science fiction film. It might also rise up from the past, for
time is not linear in Gleeson’s art, all blending in one. A sense of the epic flows throughout his art.
His rich literary background evokes stirring tales of Homer’s Ulysses wandering across wine-dark
seas to foreign strands, of mythological terrors of Cyclopean ferocity, of the crustacean genus, or
journeys to the limits of the universe. Such imaginative recollections of ancient sagas, however,
are nothing compared with the apocalyptic horrors of the present and the monsters that the future
may spawn."
David Thomas, Excert from Mossgreen Catalogue Entry, October 2008
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