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Justin Pearson Exhibition Bodalla Galleries 7 January - 14 February 2021

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Justin Pearson Painting 2023

​Justin Pearson work are an exciting collection of dramatic, expressive oil paintings. 

One of his exhibitions was at Gallery Bodalla  from January 7 to February 14, 2021.
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Inspired by classical mythology, Justin's landscapes, figurative paintings are full of movement and beauty.  As a studio painter, Justin celebrates the themes and narratives of mythology, love, loss, yearning and power, in thick rich oil paint, which dances and swirls on its canvas or board. 

“He produces fantastical images celebrating feelings that are all too human in nature, all brought together with the most beautiful use of colour,” Gallery Bodalla director Valerie Faber said. 

“I am drawn to the timeless, universal themes and metaphors that comment on society, politics, power and love.  These paintings depict a range of mysterious landscapes, embracing figures of moral ambiguity, whilst others are celebrations of heroic strength and uprisings,” Justin said.

Born in Christchurch, Justin left New Zealand and made his way to London in 1981, where he completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Byam Shaw School of Art (Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design).  

He is represented in private and corporate collections in New Zealand, Australia and the UK and has won several awards including the Southern Highlands Portrait Prize, 2013, the Fettlers Heritage Art Prize 2011 and the Heysen Prize in 2007, the Adams portrait prize NZ 2008 - 2014, the John Copes portrait prize 2014
He has also been a finalist in the Adams portrait prize NZ 2008 - 2014 Wellington New Zealand, the Fishers Ghost Award NSW, and a semi-finalist in the 2014 Doug Moran Portrait Prize with a portrait of the artist Euan Macleod, the Lester Prize in Portraiture 2020 .
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Major Exhibitions
2023 Gallery Bodalla, solo show, Bodalla, NSW.
2022 Funda/Mental, solo show Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
2021 Shac Gallery, solo show, Robertson, NSW
2021 Gallery Bodalla, solo show, Bodalla, NSW
2020 Milk Factory Gallery, solo show, Bowral NSW
2020 Milk Factory Gallery, solo show cancelled due to virus
2020 Gallery Bodalla, solo show cancelled due to virus
2019 Gallery Bodalla, solo show cancelled due to NSW Fire 
2017 Gallery Bodalla, solo show, Bodalla, NSW
2016 Southern Highlands Art Festival, solo show, Hillview Sutton Forest, NSW
2016 Sturt Gallery, Group show, Mittagong, NSW
2014 Gallery Bodalla, solo show, Bodalla, NSW
2014 Maunsell Wicks Galleries, Paddington, Sydney
2013 DBAS Gallery, Solo show, Bowral, Southern Highlands NSW
2013 Maunsell Wicks & Michael Yabsley, Artists Group Show, Wombat Hollow East Kangaloon, Southern Highlands
2012 Maunsell Wicks Galleries, Huntington Estate Winery, Mudgee
2012 Maunsell Wicks Galleries, Paddington, Sydney
2011 Sohi Art Gallery, Group Show, Bowral, Southern Highlands
2011 Sohi Art Show, Truths and Roses, Peppers Craigieburn Resort, Southern Highlands
2010 Light Horse Gallery, New South Wales