Rupert Travis
Biography
Rupert Travis is a New Zealand-born artist who resides in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Exploring parallels between medium-and-materiality and subject matter, his compositions engage a mix of collected images and staged setups, breaking up everyday scenes and reconstructing them within landscape. By linking applied narrative and place to the application of paint, each work floats between the illusion of the scene it depicts and the reality of its flat surface. This leads to an interpretive and painterly openness, allowing the different layers of brushwork and narrative suggestion of each work to be explored.
Image of artist courtesy of Paul Petch
