Open Gallery

The Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald 26-27 September 2009

Lissa Christopher

David Larwill, New Paintings

In the 1980's, David Larwill was a member of Roar, a group of young, anti-establishmentarian artists who ran their own exhibitions and occupied themselves with a provocative, new-fangled style of painting known as figurative expressionism. Larwill has since been welcomed into the bosom of the mainstream and the asking price for the largest canvas in this exhibition is $70,000. His paintings (Animalia, pictured) are tremendously appealing. They're garish, primitive, energetic and occassionally menacing, like the work of a visually talented but delinquent eight-year-old boy high on food colouring. 

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