dele Warner is an artist living and working on Gadigal Land in the Eora Nation.

Adele Warner’s painting practice gives form to an introspective longing for connection and meaning, overlaying a post-internet condition onto the European painterly canon. Inspired by reflections on the conditions of contemporary life and visual culture, works speak to a lingering sense of malaise within the everyday. Navigating the boundary between the surreal, uncanny and documentary, Warner’s paintings desire to embody intuitive feelings of unease and alienation, functioning as a mediation between the self and reality. Works are created through a process of beachcombing for imagery washed upon the shores of the mind. They upcycle both digitally found imagery from user generated content forums, such as reddit and Wikimedia Commons, and personal photography. Depicting both the familiar and unfamiliar, paintings refuse audiences comfort. Built up from grisaille underpaintings, Warner’s works fashion fragmented portraits of a digital age, rendered in luminous oils.