Saxon's work is inspired by his years of deep research in the field of f*ck around and find out.
The paintings are there waiting.
Saxon Duke is a contemporary artist based in Sydney, Australia. Born in 1983, his work sits between the language of graffiti and the conventions of painting. He builds complex, rhythmic, and often primal patterns in vivid colour, with references to past experience held just below the surface.
The paintings are heavily worked. Layers are applied quickly, then adjusted over long periods. Pop-cultural fragments appear and recede. Accidents are left in. Duke is less interested in a predetermined outcome than in remaining inside the process. The finished works are intended to operate independently of any fixed reading.
Interpret them however you like.
