‘Common Sense & Secrets: Three Artists’ at King Street Gallery on William

‘Moonee Beach’, 2016, acrylic on linen,

90.5cm x 387.5cm

Common Sense & Secrets: Three Artists

Some artists paint the familiar - those things that they hold closest- finding beauty in their surrounds and the everyday. Some artists paint the familiar in a way that is totally unfamiliar, as if they had commandeered some secret, something hidden inside themselves or in what they perceive. Then some artists ‘find’ the painting as they go, rather than having an idea or benchmark of completion in mind.

Painting is secretive and illusive, to the painter and the viewer. Each image presents a new and different horizon to the artist and the audience. One’s perception will never align exactly with another’s; and no amount of conversation or rationale can ever completely alter these differing impressions.

In Common Sense & Secrets: Three Artists, Lucy Culliton, Alan Daniel Jones and Ross Laurie emphasise the private nature of the act of painting. While each is a keen observer of the environment and intuitively influenced by their surroundings, each approach is discrete and secretive. The plan often defeats the purpose and is discarded along the way, so that common sense gives way to secrets and the end is often far removed from its origins.

Common Sense & Secrets presents a selection of new work by three notable Australian painters: Lucy Culliton, Alan Daniel Jones and Ross Laurie.

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Common Sense & Secrets: Three Artists
King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
17 February - 14 March 2026

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