Naxington by Naxington in Melbourne

Originally from Perth, now based and working out of the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne (Naarm) Naxingtons work approaches to display an area and lifestyle unseen by most, a style portraying drug, alcohol abuse and mental illness and how these elements are brushed over and quite often hiding in plain sight. With a personal history of addiction issues and mental illness a personal insight is applied to each work, taking memories and self experience and combining it with elements and ideologies of abstract expressionism along with a unique figurative style and historical interest, focusing heavily on religious and symbolic approaches Naxington intends to cross wire these life experiences with a classical yet personalised modernist painterly style to portray allegories and experiences to the viewer. Applying subtle tricks of the eye and hidden stories brushed over by the unknowing, these paintings might just seem like an abstract figurative load of nonsensical rambling in the form of paint to canvas, however when glanced further into they can create complex and relatable platforms for each patron to take upon ones own self after viewing. In Showing heavy influence from religious symbolism and ideology combined with a heavy stylistic abstracted approach adapted from the classical masters, Nax tries to take his work in a direction with subtle allegorys of self seeping through in a painterly undertone.