Informality is thrilled to announce ‘A Day By the Sea’, the second showing in the UK of contemporary Australian artist, James Drinkwater. The exhibition introduces a suite of recent paintings reflecting the artists compassion about intimacy, place and memory and the archive of history, on the Australian coast where he lives and works.

James Drinkwater is an artist whose work reflects personal fragments about history and our of emotion relative to an experience. Interested in the land of our richly textured world and the found objects attached to an archive of history sensitive to a place, Drinkwater constructs a response working across, poetry, collage, sculpture and painting to draw his own language from love, intimacy and memory.

In the studio, mark-making and assemblage are physical acts in which Drinkwater creates works about the interior of his life. In the landscape itself, he records distinctive personal motifs by, drawing and writing poetry, influenced by the sensation and the experience of emotion whilst participating with what was once there before him, protecting and creating his own diary and history of our land.