Under the Weather the Storm - Jarrad Martyn

Under the Weather the Storm uses painting to investigate Martyn's relationship to memory and legacy. The exhibition features a range of different approaches, responding to both a series of photographs his father took while working as a helicopter pilot in Antarctica in 1985 and his own personal photographic archive.

Through using analogous subjects and by collapsing the distinctions between figuration and abstraction, Martyn questions our relationship to how we engage with the environment and how the meaning of the archive evolves over time.

Martyn has been awarded in various national art prizes, most notably winning the John Stringer Art Prize (2018), the City of Joondalup Community Invitation Art Award Overall Acquisitive Award (2017), the Fifty Squared Art Prize (2021), the Mayor's Award for the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art (2023), and the People’s Choice Award for the John Leslie Art Prize (2024). He has also been a finalist in a wide selection of awards, commissions, and grants, including exhibiting at the Frost Museum of Science as part of Art Basel Miami (2023). This will be his eleventh solo exhibition.