James Lieutenant is an Australian visual artist, recently relocated from Sydney to Canberra. Mainly using painting and screen-print, he creates idiosyncratic and often puzzling imagery. Lieutenant is interested in the space between digital and analogue, abstract and representational art.
He has exhibited in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, Launceston and New York. His artworks are held in numerous private and public collections across Australia. He was awarded the 2013 Linden Postcard Prize by Linden Centre for Contemporary Art (Victoria) and was selected for the invitation only National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize at The University of Queensland Art Museum in 2015.
Website: jameslieutenant.com
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James Lieutenant, Yellow: One Beam, Tape and Rags, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 42 x 51 cm.