Kawahara’s artist statement on the Max Dawn blog includes the words ‘unconscious’ and ‘visualising’. Now excuse me if I’m grossly oversimplifying someone’s life work for the sake of a fashionable drug reference. But you know what those words mean? PSYCHEDELICA. Trippy shit.
Sure enough Kawahara’s work consists of luridly bright colours, flower power influences and patterns. Post-modern psychedelia. However his paintings are the product of travel and residences through Australia, New Zealand and Samoa. As he puts it, art is a means of ‘visualising ones philosophy’.
Kawahara’s personal vision should fit in fine at Max Dawn, who in their brief but busy life as Thebarton’s home of contemporary art, have shown a tendency towards showing sophisticated and eccentric artists. They even showed the DJ from Sugar – Driller. You know, the one who always plays "Ride the White Horse"…..
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