This painting was sparked by a US studio residency at Yellowstone National Park, shortly after Trump’s election. In America, Chin witnessed conservative nationalism and divisiveness, but also an equal reaction promoting diversity and challenging structural inequality. Developing this work in Australia, Chin examined how a sense of place forms fluidly in the consciousness, to surpass geographic borderlines.Kevin Chin is a local artist. He has been a finalist in the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art (2015, 2019). In this painting Chin explores economic, cultural and social structures that shape the world in which we live, questioning who has built what, who takes ownership, and who has the right to the land. Landscape painting depicting a house (upside down) and a half finished urban structure sitting amongst mountain peaks and land that has been cleared and immersed in fog/smoke.N/Alandscape, kevin, chin, structural, inequality, castle, trump, painting, nillumbik, residency, yellowstone, realism, oils

Oil on linen-gippsland, view, twilight, suburban, sky

Oil on linen-gippsland, twilight, local, suburban, sky, urban structures, shadows, clouds, street lights

Two men and an aeroplanelangford-smith, aeroplane, missionary, arnham land, flight, sky pilot, pilot

Romanticism

Hard cover (with jacket) - 623 pages of text with black and white prints. Author - Dan Hampton