{"id":65828,"date":"2025-08-13T19:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65828\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:34:10","slug":"artist-paul-davies-gives-the-classic-queenslander-a-technicolour-glow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65828\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Paul Davies gives the classic Queenslander a technicolour glow up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Meagher<\/p>\n<p>Aug 13, 2025 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-title\" data-testid=\"Modal-title\">Subscribe to gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-giftDescription -d6475070fa5e1d14-noMaxWidth\" data-testid=\"Modal-description\">Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"Modal-subscribe-button\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.afr.com\/?promote_channel=HI_AGFT_GNL_GIFTCTA&amp;utm_source=ArticleGifting&amp;utm_medium=HouseInventory&amp;utm_campaign=General&amp;utm_content=GiftCTA\" class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeSubtext\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/p>\n<p>Even on a wet winter\u2019s day, Paul Davies\u2019 white-walled studio in Sydney sparkles. But when the weather breaks and the morning sun floods into the upper-level space, in a Federation-era building in Paddington, the tiny multicoloured paint splatters covering the floor light up like so many Hundreds &amp; Thousands.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fitting location to be talking about Davies\u2019 latest series of paintings, Constructed Realities, going on show at Jan Murphy Gallery in Brisbane later this month. There\u2019s a dream-like intensity to the artist\u2019s work \u2013 often featuring mid-century Californian homes drenched in summer light, curvilinear shapes, vertical lines, pastel colours, swimming pools and lush foliage. The houses in his paintings look familiar but at the same time quite surreal.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Meagher Aug 13, 2025 \u2013 5.00am Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-65828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}