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ARTIST STATEMENT

“I have spent most of my life inthralled with the human experience. In this period of thinking I’ve focused in on the Australian way of masking sincere human struggle with humour, I felt as though I’d left that out of my painting, but it seems it’s followed me there too. The works are inherently absurd in their own way, but that seems to have come about as a result of that fact that"

BIO

Liam Ross Baker is an artist born in southern Lutruwita/Tasmania in 1998. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Tasmania in 2021, exhibiting in numerous group shows since. In 2021, Baker undertook a residency at the Henry Jones Art Hotel after taking out the packing room prize, as a finalist in the Henry Jones Art Prize. He was also selected as the people choice at the Tidal Art Award in 2023 and shown in multiple exhibitions at Despard Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania.

Baker’s paintings are predominantly made using oils on canvas and board exploring figuration and narrative. He grew up in southern Tasmania in the small fishing town of Dover where he was surrounded by the beautiful natural scenery and landscapes, yet he took a shine for the endless tales and stories of lives lived in and around the town, and the industries that accompanied the local area. Through this love for the human experience, he found an intense interest in his direct life and surroundings, using his own experience to unpack and question culture, industry and people through narrative, symbology and most importantly figuration.