Saxon Duke is a contemporary artist based in Sydney, Australia. Born in 1983, his work is the by-product of spending over two decades deleting spray cans in the dead of night and all that comes along with that lifestyle.

 

You're not a sellout if you don't turn a profit! He says.

After going legit he eased into conventional painting. Spending near every day of the year making art of some kind.

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It's a mystery as to why he's not very good. He looks fairly stubborn. Refuses to reflect within perhaps?

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Moving on...

 

Saxon builds complex, rhythmic, and often primal patterns in vivid colour - he references past experience in his work, if you can believe that? Get close and try see for yourself.  

'Suppression is a good thing he says - eventually it all boils over in to real life. It's up to you if you f*ck yourself in the process or decided to register an ABN and jump on the brush. 

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The paintings are heavily worked. A practice he likes to engage with in the evenings after a hard days working inside computers. Layers are applied quickly, then adjust tirelessly until he drops.

 

Pop-cultural fragments appear and recede. Accidents are left in. Duke is less interested in a predetermined outcome than in remaining inside the process. IN THE FUCKING ZONE!!! The finished works are intended to operate independently of any fixed reading. 

 

Interpret them however you like.