Joe Helmore
Southern Swimmer
Oil on Canvas
533 x 533 mm
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In ‘Southern Swimmer’, Helmore draws inspiration from a cherished spot in South Bondi, a place where he often swam alongside his faithful dog.
Dreamlike and alluring, Helmore’s vision of the scene – its distant skyline, billowing clouds, and azure ocean spilling onto the sand – imbue the painting with a surreal luminosity, evoking a dreamlike atmosphere emphasised further by the presence of the diaphanous diver.
Artist Bio
Joe Helmore is an Australasian painter whose practice is rooted in a profound inquiry into how we perceive; how memory, instinct, and emotion shape our encounter with the visual world. Working across oil, acrylic, and aerosol, Helmore composes paintings that hover between the real and the imagined, the observed and the felt. His imagery, featuring charged portraits of wild animals or vast landscapes imbued with luminosity, invites a kind of slow looking: perception as an embodied and unfolding process, not a fixed act of recognition.