James Gleeson 'I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles' flora 'Kapi Piti'

'Kapi Piti'

In his Alchemy series

while proffering some optimism

This was an artist who understood acutely the precarity of youth

James Gleeson 'I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles' flora 'Kapi Piti'James Gleeson is Australias foremost surrealist artist. His work looks beyond the visible, questioning the limitation of our senses through fleshy biomorphic, mechanical and illusionistic landscapes. Like the great surrealists before him, Gleeson penetrates the subconscious. In his words: Many of the depicted images are the end results of remembered dreams. Many others have floated into my consciousness so precisely detailed that they could only have