About

Kane Grose is a painter and animator from Melbourne, Australia. He works predominantly with abstracted, purist elements to create works that rely on their own beauty to enthral an audience.

In a world where the artificial has superseded nature in so many areas, we seek meaning everywhere. In nature, however, we feel the beauty inherently – we don’t ask a tree why it is a tree, or what it represents, or what its political views are. It is a tree, and it is beautiful.

Art is the field of self-representation, and that often means that the artist is seeking to convey some world view. But there needs to be a balance. There needs to be art that is purely a window to the beauty of the world, where there is no representation, where we can look at the piece and not ask why, but just see it as it is. Pure abstraction allows this window to exist, by removing reality and allowing the senses their free rein.

Driven to create work to be appreciated purely on its own aesthetic merits, Kane is heavily inspired by the Concrete, Neo-Plastic, De Stijl, Purist, Op-art, and Bauhaus art movements. In both his animation and painting, he seeks to expand upon the aesthetic directions of these movements, while seeking to inject his own unique viewpoint to create new works.