ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

Reviewer CommentaryEach piece of my environmental body ofwork contains a recognizable mood, anaspect written about by Dr. JacquelineMillner from the University of Western6Sydney:This play between abstraction andfiguration, between synthetic/organicmatter and immateriality in the purgepaintings, has been applied in Dahlsen’smost recent works to landscapes —dark works whose subtle referencesto environmental degradation all butdisappear before forcefully catching youunawares.This tension between inorganicabstraction and emotionally chargedorganism lends these works particularresonance, given their inception in thepolitics of environmental art. They playout, in elegant and economical aesthetics,the unstable boundaries between thenatural and the artificial, reminding us45