Ces McCully, Large French Australian Bold Graphic Abstract Pattern Oil Painting Ces McCully, 2021

Ces McCully, Australian, b. 1982
Untitled (Altar), 2021
Signed and dated CES ’21 on the reverse
Oil on canvas
39 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches (100.3 x 80 cm)
Unframed

Ces McCully (born 1982, Melbourne, Australia)
Now based in Southern France, Ces McCully is a contemporary Australian artist, whose work is collected and shown internationally.
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Rachael McCully’s oeuvre includes text based pieces which utilize chance in color relationships, and abstract geometric paintings which often have a meditative effect; both sharing autobiographical elements with a reflection on society, and a minimalist approach. “I dabbled in painting, photography, writing and design over the years,” before settling more firmly on painting. Feminist icons Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger were amongst her inspirations as she began studying art. However now Rachael McCully-Kerwick is forging her own visual language in the south of France.
Ces McCully explores themes of female relationships and identity through minimalistic forms, geometric compositions and repeated tribal motifs. Her work, which moves between text pieces and abstract painting, is collected and shown internationally. In McCully’s typography works, she uses vivid colours to create stylised and geometric typographical pieces, divulging secret, and often brutally honest thoughts. Muted-color, cloth-like ‘Patchwork’; geometric and linear works including ‘Mono’ and ‘Shape’; and three-dimensional Cubes with bold colors which brighten up the space.
More recently however, we have seen McCully embrace the folk art like characteristics of her work, incorporating religious iconography and human figures into her paintings.
Her works are held in private collections internationally and has been shown within Europe and Australia. Mccully has had her work on display in the Louis Vuitton flagship store, Sydney CBD.

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 More Than This, Breach, Miami, USA
2021 Strange Like Me, PIERMARQ*, Sydney, Australia
2019 A Cure for Melancholy, Galerie 42B, France
2017 Beyond the Blablabla Sky, Galerie Rompone, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 PINK, PIERMARQ*, Sydney, Australia (with new work by Maximilian Daniels, Gabriele Herzog, Ces McCully, Galina Munroe, Rob Tucker, Andrew Salgado and Spencer Shakespeare).
2019 Bluerider Art Gallery, Taiwan
Delphian X Guts Gallery, London, UK (Douglas Cantor, Florence Hutchings, Geoffrey Bohm, Igor Moritz, Jake Grewal, Lauren Roche, Morteza Khakshoor, Rachael McCully, Sebastian Eriksson, Sunyoung Hwang, Tania Alvarez, Valerie Savchits.)
Ten Hours By Train, PIERMARQ*, Sydney, Australia
Andenken Gallery, Portugal Rachael McCully & Jordi Kerwick
HOME@735 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Inhabitants, PIERMARQ*, Sydney, Australia
2018 A Little Christmas Tree, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg
Spring Time, RVCA, Melbourne, Australia (Patrizia Cercamondi ( Italy )
(Ella Mittas, Alice Oehr, Amy Jean, Claire Johnson, Tallulah Fontaine ( Canada )
Allie Webb, Sabrina Sterk, Steph Hughes, Aki Yaguchi, Rachael McCully Kerwick, Bonnie Eichelberger)
Marching Through the Fields, Warbling Collective, London, UK
Presence, Comber Street Studios, Sydney, Australia
Origins, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia