Top 100 Hottest Collectable Australian Artists List - Terry Taylor and Matthew Quick
29/09/2023
By Ella V Reid
The Compendium team would like to give a huge congratulations to two of our exhibiting artists Terry Taylor and Matthew Quick for making the Top 100 Hottest Collectable Australian Artists List for 2023!
Both artists produced outstanding bodies of work to display here at the Compendium Gallery and we are so proud that they have made this prestigious list. The Top100Artists committee is made up of academics, gallerists and collectors who carefully select established Contemporary artists ‘to watch’ within the Australian art scene.
The Demonic Ascension - Installation shot, Gallery II
Terry Taylor exhibited with us July/August with her exhibition titled The Demonic Ascension. Dedicating much of her practice to expressing the fragility of this world we live in, Taylor has exhibited her hauntingly beautiful skeletal works around the globe. Fascinated with the dichotomy of life and death, Taylors depicts skulls, the ultimate symbol for death, and breathes life into her figures by positioning them in these playful poses and settings giving them a strong dynamic energy.
Taylor often explores religious themes within her work, by recreating iconic biblical verses and narratives with her gothic skeletons. Her series The Fallen Sephrim involves grand deceptions of the Sephram, which in Christian teachings are described as the highest ranking deity in Christian theology as they would often have direct dealings with God. The term fallen is labelled to those angels who subsequently experienced a ‘fall from grace’. This includes the iconic story of Lucifer and his descent into becoming the ruler of hell. Though the stand out of the collection was her recreation of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. The Last Supper by Taylor has this overwhelming sense of excitement and joy, almost as if Hell through an unhinged soirée and the festivities were flowing. The individual works together span across over eight metres only adding to the works overall impact on its viewer.
Terry Taylor - The Last Supper
Matthew Quick exhibition Five Minutes to Famous is currently on display here at the Compendium Gallery until the 7th of October. Five Minutes to Famous explores the juxtaposition of the lives society puts online as compared to reality, which is often uninteresting and mundane.
Five Minutes to Famous - Installation shot, Gallery II
Quick explorers our constant need to be validated through social media and virtual narrative we post to express this false sense of how we live our lives. Quick achieves this with his golden, highly reflective plates to which the viewer can see themselves, only enhancing our innate sense of narcissism. He then paints highly realistic sculptures from Greco/Roman times with snapchat and instagram filters on their faces. This clash of highly detailed classical sculptures juxtaposed with prosaic objects or filters is a known aesthetic for Quick, and to see it used here for this specific ideology is just another showcase of Quick's artistic brilliance.
We here at the Compendium Gallery would like to once again congratulate these two outstanding artists on their inclusion in this esteemed list and look forward to seeing what these two big names in the Australian Contemporary art scene come up with next.
To view Terry Taylors catalogue please Click Here
To view Matthew Quicks catalogue please Click Here
Works from both exhibitions are still available. For any enquires please email us compendiumgallery@gmail.com
