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Zac Craig

b. 1987 | Dubbo, Australia
The paintings of Zachary Craig deploy a startling and complex language of abstract forms, language which has been developed slowly over the last fifteen years. Its roots are in European Modernism, most obviously in the paintings of the early Abstractionists, and in the automatic drawing practices of the Surrealists. Although Craig’s paintings are pure abstraction, the influence of Miro is significant.

At the same time, the artist is working with layering techniques first used by early oil painters in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Palettes, compositions and handling in Craig’s paintings are often related to art historical models too. The influence of fifteenth century Northern painters like Dirk Bouts and Hans Memling is clear; recent paintings also exhibit elements derived from the Baroque.

At time of writing, in 2026, this is an unusually rigorous approach to the question of how to make paintings. Such an approach links contemporary painting practice to the history of painting and to its origins in the remote past of human experience. This is the mood carried in these celebratory works. At the same time, the paintings feel as if they spring directly and naturally from the artist’s psyche.

(Charlie Sheard June 2026)

Artist Resume

Exhibitions with the Gallery /

09.09 - 15.10.2026

PIM, PAM, PUM
Solo show

Barcelona

13.06 - 09.09.2024

Salón de verano
Group Exhibition

Barcelona

2021

OPEN BETA
Group Exhibition

Berlin