James Drinkwater: I Love You More Than Paintings. Works 2008-2024 Brand / Porter the Dreaming or creation tracks

the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent

From fairy tales and folklore focused on magical foods and strange eating came an enduring tradition of writers playing with food and the uncanny

having never before appeared in print

We hear about the Ancient Greeks and Romans

The contributors are a cross-generational selection of Australia’s finest art and literary historians

James Drinkwater: I Love You More Than Paintings. Works 2008-2024 Brand / Porter the Dreaming or creation tracksJames Drinkwater paintings are physical, muscular, messy articulating something that Picasso started blending nameable and unnameable or recognisable imagery with nondescript painted signs, dancing in a frenetic ballet of attack after attack, sometimes confounding sometimes parting the seas of expression to a clear cohesive rhythm where painted cacophony reigns, not over matter but out of matter. Personal, familial, local of somewhere faraway and