![Will Colenso - I wanna do good but not right now](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_I-wanna-do-good-but-not-right-now_acrylic-on-wooden-panel_60x60cm.jpg?bossToken=5ce58a1f4b227ae7044cc1e0a778a5d665f181daac63352e573e6e5c2675c37c)
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acrylic on canvas
115 x 115 cm
![Will Colenso - Elsewhere is around here somewhere](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_2023_Elsewhere-is-around-here-somewhere_acrylic-on-wooden-panel_60x60cm.jpg?bossToken=0d481a630990671f13a52e56e7577174d07d047b668adc280a7c8530bed25405)
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acrylic on wooden panel
60 x 60 cm
![Will Colenso - The Blues (oh daylight won't you come)](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_2023_The-Bluesoh-daylight-wont-come_acrylic-on-wooden-panel_60x60cm.jpg?bossToken=c868681276eb189e14eafd6b79541d29c61a89efd550ffd57f4cf9bb79d24778)
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acrylic on wooden panel
60 x 60 cm
![Will Colenso - Yakult not the occult](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_2023_Yakult-not-the-occult_2023_acrylic-on-wooden-panel_60-x-60cm.jpg?bossToken=a5d8b6b81d11862978cfbfd26bebaec2b1aa0727141215a802ae6e2067396b9d)
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acrylic on wooden panel
60 x 60 cm
![Will Colenso - As you bask in my fading light](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_2023_As-you-bask-in-my-fading-light_acrylic-on-wooden-panel_60x60cm.jpg?bossToken=47b501942af2bf83c3fd0e89bf95b1a179cc86dccc9c4e4e5a9abda4803ca183)
![As you bask in my fading light As you bask in my fading light](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_2023_As-you-bask-in-my-fading-light_acrylic-on-wooden-panel_60x60cm.jpg?bossToken=47b501942af2bf83c3fd0e89bf95b1a179cc86dccc9c4e4e5a9abda4803ca183)
acrylic on wooden panel
60 x 60 cm
![Will Colenso - There was just enough dark to see](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_2023_There-was-just-enough-dark-to-see_acrylic-on-canvas_115x115cm.jpg?bossToken=cf26d2ecb7c56a90186261fc3c828b8d711b4d7f2a4b85023c02c094aa2127d4)
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acrylic on canvas
115 x 115 cm
![Will Colenso - What I knew about this feeling I knew before I met you](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_2023_What-I-knew-about-this-feeling-befre-I-knew-before-I-met-you_acrylic-on-wooden-panel_60-x-60cm.jpg?bossToken=4afefbe6ae2a69cb353fa25d425bd4fb9509057ec0b33bb3421051625055bac9)
![What I knew about this feeling I knew before I met you What I knew about this feeling I knew before I met you](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_2023_What-I-knew-about-this-feeling-befre-I-knew-before-I-met-you_acrylic-on-wooden-panel_60-x-60cm.jpg?bossToken=4afefbe6ae2a69cb353fa25d425bd4fb9509057ec0b33bb3421051625055bac9)
acrylic on wooden panel
60 x 60 cm
![Will Colenso - Dulcet tones under your sultry ceiling](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_2023_Dulcet-tones-under-sultry-ceiling_acrylic-on-wooden-panel_60-x-60cm.jpg?bossToken=9de19b0373600ca2600ee3faf2be6043d10598c327078dc34d39793b587e21b2)
![Dulcet tones under your sultry ceiling Dulcet tones under your sultry ceiling](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_2023_Dulcet-tones-under-sultry-ceiling_acrylic-on-wooden-panel_60-x-60cm.jpg?bossToken=9de19b0373600ca2600ee3faf2be6043d10598c327078dc34d39793b587e21b2)
acrylic on wooden panel
60 x 60 cm
![Will Colenso - INSTALLATION VIEW 'Proper Gander'](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_Proper-Gander_2024_1.jpg?bossToken=9097718cb8855f5d8140c9a1ce11744bc53f4df8a896d5db6ced45486dac9264)
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![INSTALLATION VIEW 'Proper Gander' INSTALLATION VIEW 'Proper Gander'](https://img.imageboss.me/edwinacorlette/cover:inside/1200x1200/quality:80/artworks/will-colenso/107136_will-colenso_proper-gander_2024/Will-Colenso_Proper-Gander_2024_5.jpg?bossToken=ef04d95596946b681d9a5f8f8b1f4a026db7a2f6223ed24d61657e423b16e01c)
PROPER GANDER
I think there’s a quiet comfort to be found in the way our memories fade over time. Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to find ways to interpret and record this wonderfully strange language of inaccuracies. Writing memories down seems to solidify them too much and strip them of some of their magic - so I’ve never really been one to keep a journal. But like most people, I fairly mindlessly save thousands of photos and screenshots in my phone. As I scroll back through them, each photo becomes a single frame in a much larger moving reel. A scattered and chaotic collection of fragments that, as a whole, provide a candid and sometimes confronting impression of a particular period of time. Photographs, other paintings, landscapes, portraits, nudes, details, corners of things, images sent from friends, internet detritus- the disarming honesty of an un-curated archive. These paintings are memory objects built out of those fragments. Hopefully unrecognizable but strangely familiar. Imagined still lifes of a not so still life.
Will Colenso, 2023
Will Colenso
- Born 1990, Brisbane
- Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
EDUCATION
2015
- Master of Architecture, RMIT, Melbourne
2011
- Bachelor of Architectural Design, University of Queensland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
- 'Proper Gander', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
2023
- 'Elsewhere', AK Bellinger Gallery, Inverell
SELECTED ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE
2022
- Koning Eizenberg, Los Angeles
2018
- MAD Architects, Los Angeles
2017
- Zaha Hadid, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
- Amber Creswell-Bell Selects, National Emerging Art Prize, Sydney
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2023
- Finalist, Amber Creswell-Bell Selects, National Emerging Art Prize, Sydney
2012
- Nominated for the Royal Institute of British Architects President's Medals
7 – 27 February 2024
Will Colenso ‘Proper Gander’