George Byrne creates large-scale photographs that depict everyday surfaces and landscapes as painterly abstractions. Borrowing from the clean, vivid clarity of modernist painting, he also references the New Topographics photography movement via a subject matter firmly entrenched in the urban everyday.
“ I’ d always been interested in urban photography, but it wasn’ t until I moved to LA and started shooting in color and experimenting with manipulation and assemblage that I felt I was able to do anything very expressive or original with it. The images I’ m making now are based on reality but quite removed from it at the same time, hence the effect is one of pleasurable disconcertion. They are dreamscapes." – GB.
Born in Sydney in 1976, Byrne graduated from Sydney College Of The Arts in 2001, traveled extensively, and then settled in Los Angeles in 2011 - where he now lives and works.
