About — Rhys Viorr

Rhys Viorr is a Melbourne-based artist working predominantly across painting and sculpture. His intuitive work examines the human longing to believe and the doubt that shadows it.

Viorr’s work considers what we trust without proof, from fundamental questions of meaning to the memories and experiences that make us who we are. He is less interested in what is believed than in how tightly we hold on, and how fragile that grip can be.

Working primarily in oil, Viorr’s paintings move between recognisable figures and more elusive forms. With the artist’s hand left in plain view, gesture carries the intensity and memory of an encounter beyond its literal depiction, while sculpture extends this sensibility into physical space.

Viorr has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally, including solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Seoul and Osaka, and an artist talk in Beijing. He has exhibited alongside Sidney Nolan and Howard Arkley at the National Art School, Sydney, and presented his work as part of Pop Masters at HOTA, Gold Coast, an exhibition featuring Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His practice extends to film and publishing projects, residencies and other collaborations.

The work reminds us of our capacity to experience life in its full, unspoken totality.