David Jolly

David Jolly’s paintings draw on the specificity of time and place, merging documentary and realist traditions to capture the nuanced particularities of memory. Working primarily from his own photographs, Jolly translates these images onto glass using an approach that reverses the usual convention of image construction in painting: foreground details are first laid onto the glass with the mid and background details rendered around and on top of them. Jolly’s technique results in the painting being read through the flat, screen like surface of the glass’s recto and, although they are rarely seen, the built up back of the verso. Source: Stephanie Berlangieri and Hannah Matthews in Painting. More Painting, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Mlebourne, 2016, p.70