Bowman Hal aims to provide full support and development for the featured artist, through exhibition, market positioning, conservation of works, and other aspects. Like a box within a box, the white cube universe initially directs attention to the artist’s works, while still remaining part of a broader universe made up of articulated outer shells.William Mackinnon was the first artistic talent selected for the space’s inauguration. His solo exhibition, ‘Snakes and Ladders’, is open to the public from 6 June until 12 July. The title, with its playful origins, triggers the first mechanism towards his universe made up of metaphors, symbolism, and infinite complexities. William works between Ibiza, London, and Melbourne; he has a well-established and recognised career in Australia, and now, thanks to Solo, he also arrives on European soil.
“Painting for me is a way of being in the world, a way of processing what it is to be human,”
This is how the artist anticipates his creative production: in moments when life is not linear, he puts on canvas the highs and lows, the contrasts, the ruptures, the anti-hero. Each work represents a moment where everyday icons are inserted as game pieces or collage fragments within a dark landscape. Every component is assigned a meaning, becoming a portal of contrasting emotions. Hesitation, the unforeseen, the problem: this is the territory William investigates.
