MELBOURNE.- Cal­lum Morton’s instal­la­tion and sculp­tur­al prac­tice is inspired by archi­tec­ture and the built envi­ron­ment. His work has con­sis­tent­ly addressed the ‘archi­tec­ture of expe­ri­ence’ – the moment of encounter between view­er and object, or view­er and built envi­ron­ment. Often, his works explore human inter­ac­tion with archi­tec­tur­al space through scale mod­els and facades of well-known build­ings. For exam­ple, Mor­ton rep­re­sent­ed Aus­tralia at the 2007 Venice Bien­nale with a scale mod­el of his child­hood home, designed and built in the 1970s in a mod­ernist style by his archi­tect father.

These six large paintings have as their starting point the exact scale of the windows in the Sirius Building in Sydney, a subject Callum Morton has been interested in for some time as part of, more broadly, a catalogue of the lost, ignored and hidden.

Callum Morton said: “Some of them are paintings of a window where you are inside a room looking through a window into a room from the inside.

Some of them are paintings of a window where you are inside a room looking through a window into a room from the outside.

Some of them are paintings of things that are in a room that might be empty.

Some of them are paintings of the obstruction of a view inside or outside a room.

These works are paintings, screens, holes and blockages.”

Anna Schwartz, Founder of Anna Schwartz Gallery, said: “When encountering the latest work of an artist there is often a retrospective shift in the understanding of the entire practice. The new work, although unpredictable, often has an inevitability once seen. These new paintings by Callum Morton inspire the realisation of the importance of painting throughout his history, the cover-ups, the screens and billboards. Callum Morton the painter!”

Cal­lum Morton’s instal­la­tion and sculp­tur­al prac­tice is inspired by archi­tec­ture and the built envi­ron­ment. His work has con­sis­tent­ly addressed the ‘archi­tec­ture of expe­ri­ence’ – the moment of encounter between view­er and object, or view­er and built envi­ron­ment. Often, his works explore human inter­ac­tion with archi­tec­tur­al space through scale mod­els and facades of well-known build­ings. For exam­ple, Mor­ton rep­re­sent­ed Aus­tralia at the 2007 Venice Bien­nale with a scale mod­el of his child­hood home, designed and built in the 1970s in a mod­ernist style by his archi­tect father.

Morton’s work is held in impor­tant Aus­tralian and inter­na­tion­al pub­lic col­lec­tions includ­ing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syd­ney; Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Mel­bourne; Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art Aus­tralia, Syd­ney; Muse­um of Old and New, Hobart; Nation­al Gallery of Aus­tralia, Can­ber­ra; Queens­land Art Gallery/Gallery of Mod­ern Art, Bris­bane; Gov­ett-Brew­ster Art Gallery, New Ply­mouth, New Zealand; and Fon­dazione Mor­ra Gre­co, Naples, among others.