https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/5993710/mobbed-by-clouds-an-impressive-exhibition-of-paintings/ 'There is a profound lyricism in the work of Arryn Snowball. His paintings are deceptively simple, unengaging, yet at the same time demanding attention – enigmas that seem to get under your skin [...] Transfixed by this impressive exhibition of paintings, all oil and tempera on linen, for some inexplicable reason I kept on thinking of an aphorism by the American minimalist a
Month long residency at Museum of Brisbane, working on developing Mammoth and new painting based on the poetry Nathan Shepherdson. During this residency I have been working on a continually growing artwork titled Mammoth. The words are painted simply with black paint on sheets of paper, and then space around the letters is filled in, so that only the internal shapes of the letters remain. In this way the text is abstracted to a series of triangles, circles, squares and rectan
Of Structure and Freedom, Umbrella Studio by Sarah Mathiesen http://huxley.press/2017/10/08/of-structure-and-freedom/ http://huxley.press/2017/10/08/of-structure-and-freedom/ The latest exhibition to open in the main space at Umbrella Studio contemporary arts is the result of a very long conversation between two old friends. Of Structure and Freedom looks at the impermanence that lies between order and disorder, through works by Arryn Snowball and Christian Flynn that both co
An exhibition by Christian Flynn and Arryn Snowball. Between structure and disorder there is life, ordered and unpredictable. The state of the universe shifts from one form to another in a perpetual dissolution and coalescence of new structures. Link #umbrellastudio #christianflynn #arrynsnowball #mammoth
Arryn Snowball: Square Sun at Nancy Sever Gallery by Sasha Grishin Arryn Snowball, at the age of 40, is an artist young enough to embrace a fascination with the world around him and be receptive to fresh ideas and stimuli, yet old enough to have mastered a technique of painting that has both a subtlety and lightness of touch. Although born in Sydney, Snowball is essentially a Brisbane product and a graduate of the Queensland College of the Arts, where he both studied and taug
On an amplified blackboard Arryn will draw into the music of ZEPEDRO and ZEPEDRO will play into the drawings of Arryn - real time full improvisation. #zepedro #arrynsnowball #drawingmusic