JOSHUA CHARADIA

Joshua Charadia is a visual artist living and working in Sydney. In his work, Charadia casts an aesthetic and critical eye on the complex forms of Australia’s industrial landscape. He explores the nature of perception and awareness by closely examining these ubiquitous yet overlooked scenes. Working from photographs, he employs the slow mediums of oil paint and charcoal to afford time to these images, usually seen in passing or from a distance.

Nocturnes

Charadia’s exhibition Nocturnes explores the nature of consciousness and perception through depictions of the industrial landscape at night. Working from photographs, Joshua builds up layers of oil paint 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. Joshua expands on the tradition of the nocturne; a visual, musical and literary form charged with centuries of creative contemplation.