Artwork: 'Rouen', 2022, Oil on linen mounted on Oregon timber, 410 x 195 cm, Magma Galleries Collingwood
Drez is a multidisciplinary artist whose bold colour installations reimagine contemporary art dialogues within a modern public art context. Drez is known for his large-scale ‘Chromatic Pulse’ murals, adorned across buildings in Australia and abroad, but has a multidisciplinary practice grounded in experimentation and his roots as a street artist. His work pushes major art historical frameworks including Op-Art and Modernism into refreshed conversation, simultaneously establishing new perspectives on what contemporary street art can be.
Drez is a master of using space and thinking outside the canvas parameters, transposing work to ambitious architectural formats. The effect is an amplified sense of rhythmic energy, flow and colour harmony. Emotion is at the heart of the work. On a macro level the works captivate viewers in perspective illusion, while on a micro level, the subtle details of painterly mark making, shifting tonality and texture reveal a humanity within the work.
Drez’s practice is public centric, created with a desire to bring colour, art, and creativity into the everyday. Drez rejects the idea of art as a closed circle community, building a shared practice which is accessible to all demographics by placing public space at the centre of his art philosophies. Drez is continually developing site specific architectural installations throughout Australia and Europe and has increasingly produced more experimental works which seek to push the boundaries of colour, format and immersive qualities of art.
Drez is a master of using space and thinking outside the canvas parameters, transposing work to ambitious architectural formats. The effect is an amplified sense of rhythmic energy, flow and colour harmony. Emotion is at the heart of the work. On a macro level the works captivate viewers in perspective illusion, while on a micro level, the subtle details of painterly mark making, shifting tonality and texture reveal a humanity within the work.
Drez’s practice is public centric, created with a desire to bring colour, art, and creativity into the everyday. Drez rejects the idea of art as a closed circle community, building a shared practice which is accessible to all demographics by placing public space at the centre of his art philosophies. Drez is continually developing site specific architectural installations throughout Australia and Europe and has increasingly produced more experimental works which seek to push the boundaries of colour, format and immersive qualities of art.