Surfaces

Comprising recent and never-before-seen works, 'Surfaces' counterpoints the romantic against the absurd and the evocative against the surreal, forging a thread of potential narrative, formal and symbolic strands and motifs. Tracing the Melbourne-born artist's exploration of photorealist watercolour, the book muses on both the physical and allegorical implications of its title. Slattery's paintings are striking for both their technical acumen and elusive subject matter. The medium of watercolour may be one of the most inflexible, yet here he proves it to be malleable and enigmatic in equal measure.