1 - 30 November

brunelle dias

fool’s gold

fool’s gold, 2023

Oil on canvas,

905mm x 905mm 

$2,000

Two men hunch over a golden pool of light. Shards of green light scattered amongst the entranced. Their bodies dip into the flames; something about it….like King Midas’ touch… it’s infectious. There's a slight figure sitting amidst the scene. He holds a pair of ripe green. He doesn't seem phased; he’s selling fool’s gold and they're eating it.

brunelle dias (b.1998, IND) is a painter based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She completed her Masters of Visual Art at AUT, School of Art and Design, in 2021. She is interested in the intimacy between figure and ground and the interconnection between past and present. Some of her recent exhibitions include, Kiss Taraf with The Art Paper and playing the fool at Bruce, both in Tāmaki Makaurau, 2023; a soft protest at Play_Station, Te Whanganui-A-Tara, 2023; and the way things are at The Physics Room, Ōtautahi, in 2022.