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

Adele Warner’s practice overlays the post-internet condition onto the painterly canon. Inspired by reflections on the conditions of contemporary life, material conditions and visual culture, Warner creates works which 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 unfurl through a process based practice, using painterly language to meditate on observations of daily life. Disparate imagery and narrative are synthesised into compositions in which everyday rituals and objects are recast as mirrors of modernity.

Warner’s work displays her deep curiosity about the abundance of visual material available online, largely from user generated content forums including Reddit, Wikimedia Commons and Imgur. Often divorced from the context of the author, such imagery is rendered alien, and in this peculiarity images become powerfully evocative of our post-internet zeitgeist. Through re-presenting these photographic ghosts of anonymous strangers' lives, in combination with personal photography and imagery beachcombed from the shores of the mind, works examine a collapse of hierarchy in image making, meaning and authorship.

Paintings exist in dialogue with the history of image making and painting. Built up from grisaille underpaintings, Warner’s paintings merge the instantaneity of digital media dissemination with the time-consuming labour of craft, resisting productivity complexes implicit in contemporary grind culture. In this, they fashion fragmented portraits of a post-internet age, rendered in luminous oils.