Gunslinger

"...I watched on Instagram daily as these pieces would go from a screwed-together
‘canvas’ of found bed slats, to a pink surface, to a lurid depiction of miasmic signs and figures,
to a masterpiece of punk’n’roll energy. (More than once I caught myself laughing out loud at the
audacity and slapstick humour of the concluding visual punchline).

The paintings are loosely based on old photos but Kruithof’s brash handling of the oilstick (a fave of Basquiat) lends them an immediacy and a vibrancy that jumps at you."

John Hardaker, 2022

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Sydney Australian born and based, Dirk Kruithof studied a Fine Arts Diploma at Meadowbank and Kogarah Tafe, 1999 - 2001, Majoring in Painting. His subjects are language and information, the urban environment, words signs and symbols, beauty and decay. A kind of Pop Expressionism often incorporating elements of text or graffiti like marks. Dirk uses photographs, sketches, the net, loud music, newspapers, and life in the big bad city as source material and inspiration! Admires and influenced by artists like Wool, Basquiat, Kippenberger, Cullen, Bacon, Ramellzee, Dubuffet, Ian Fairweather, Lee Krasner and many others. Dirk has been exhibiting regularly since 2005.