We’ve Golden Soil

Following on from the success of Matthew McAlpine’s 2022 exhibition Anthem, these new abstract paintings continue to prod at the intersection of landscape, nationalism, and environmental degradation in contemporary Australia.

We’ve Golden Soil furthers McAlpine’s work materially with the inclusion of cast ornate frames in several paintings that reference Western Australia’s colonial legacy and continued presence today. Artworks are rendered with a gritty impasto surface in a palette that alludes to landscape, land development and chemical leaching.

McAlpine is an artist predominantly working in painting and sculpture and is currently living and working in Boorloo / Perth. McAlpine graduated from Curtin University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and has been exhibiting regularly ever since.