Home@735 Gallery is pleased to announce we will be exhibiting a suite of paintings by Tonee Messiah in our last show for 2017 opening on Wednesday September the 20th from 6-8pm.

Tonee Messiah builds her painted surfaces with various hard and soft forms that overlap and intersect in an archaeological drift. The effect is one of movement and agitation, closure and expansion, drawing the viewer towards the inner sub-structure of the painting. Eschewing fixed references, Messiah explores complex psychological experiences the cannot be easily defined. She considers painting like another form of thinking, and as her surfaces build, so does her response to the world around her.

Messiah was born in Israel in 1983 and moved back and forth between Australia and Israel several times during her childhood before settling in Sydney where she still lives and works. She graduated from Sydney College of the Arts with Honours in 2004. Messiah is represented in the collections of Monash University Museum of Art, Artbank, Allens Linklaters, Barker College and Campbelltown Hospital.

Pictured is Data Compatibility, 2017, oil on canvas.

Tonnee Messiah is represented by Gallery 9, Sydney.