Born and based in Melbourne, Cameron Gill (born 1987) is fast emerging as an artist to collect/of significance for his intricately composed, tonally astute paintings and monotypes. In 2010, he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2010, where he was awarded the Roger Kemp Memorial Prize.

Gill’s work reveals a painter with a deep understanding of modern and contemporary landscape traditions and an uncommon gift for exploring the idiosyncrasies of mark-making in fresh, compelling ways.

Painting with oil on board and canvas – and, more recently, using oil on board and an etching press to make monotypes – Gill creates all-enveloping landscapes of visual entanglement, loosely based on sketches drawn and photographs taken while traversing pockets of bushland throughout his hometown.

Less interested in evoking a sense of place or exploring the historical resonances of a particular site, Gill employs landscape as a formal framework in which to build his lyrical, partially abstracted pictures that are notable for their dense, rhythmic compositions and dark colour harmonies.

Occasionally eerie, always seductive, his paintings draw the eye, commanding the viewer’s attention with their quiet pictorial alchemy.