Joshua Charadia: Nocturnes II.

'Embracing the spirit of Romanticism, I approach these usually cold and unyielding scenes through the lens of the personal and emotive.'

Nocturnes II explores the nature of consciousness and perception through depictions of the industrial landscape at night. Working from photographs, I utilise charcoal to capture the peculiar beauty of these scenes which rarely earn our attention. As night falls, constellations of lights scatter across coastal ports and the dense infrastructure of container yards is transformed.

'With a careful sensitivity to light and atmosphere, I reposition the mundane and ubiquitous as dynamic, mysterious and evocative, capturing moments of the sublime in the everyday. Through this juxtaposition I expand on the tradition of the nocturne; a visual, musical and literary form charged with centuries of creative contemplation.'

Joshua Charadia’s drawing practice has achieved critical success. He has been a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize (2021, 2019), the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (2022) and the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award (2019). In 2020 he won people’s choice at the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and in 2017 was awarded the inaugural Anne Pata Memorial Prize for Drawing.

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'Exploiting the parameters of photography, I capture my reference images in low light and in passing, resulting in an acute motion blur. This serves as a metaphor for sensory experience in today’s world, which is often truncated, redacted or fugitive. Familiar structures become abstract lines and shapes, and the solid becomes fluid, making for images that are familiar but just out of reach. Through the considered process of drawing I highlight the complexities of detail and form hidden within these scenes and refocus the viewer’s attention to that which normally exists at the peripheries of consciousness and vision.'

Joshua Charadia is a Sydney-based artist whose work casts an aesthetic and critical eye on the complex forms of Australia’s industrial landscape. He explores the nature of perception and awareness by drawing close attention to these ubiquitous yet overlooked scenes. Working with the slow mediums of oil paint and charcoal, Charadia affords time to these images, usually seen in passing or from a distance.

Charadia received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School, Sydney in 2017. He has presented solo exhibitions in Sydney and Katoomba, and been featured in group exhibitions throughout Australia. Charadia has been a finalist in numerous art prizes, including the Sulman Prize (2020) and Dobell Drawing Prize (2021, 2019). In 2021 he was awarded the Fisher's Ghost Art Award South West Sydney Award, in 2020 he was awarded People’s Choice at the Adelaide Perry Prize, and in 2018 won 2nd place at the Belle ArtStart Prize. His works are held in the National Art School collection and private collections around Australia.

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Joshua Charadia: Nocturnes II.: N.Smith Gallery

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