PRUE GIBSON probes the subtlety and perfect self-containment of David Serisier’s canvases.

Pure abstract painting is sometimes misunderstood as esoteric and over-intellectualised. Unlike more accepted genres of art, abstraction requires audiences to drink deeply from the well of good faith. And from abstract artists, equivalent measures of tenacity and conviction are needed.

David Serisier is a veteran abstract painter: his work has remained loyal to the cause, despite his statement that, “I don’t know if I’m a purely non-objective painter.” Unrelenting and unapologetic, Serisier has spent a lifetime investigating and experimenting with nuances of colour, surface and the contradictions of visual perception.

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Image: David Serisier, Installation photograph, 2008. Image courtesy the artist and Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney.