Where: Field Trip Gallery
1 Latrobe Tce, Paddington
When: September 5th - September 11th
Opening event: Friday 5th September, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀:
Friday: 10am - 4pm (Preview) + 6pm - 8pm (OPENING)
Saturday: 10am - 4pm
Sunday: 10am - 4pm
Monday: 10am - 4pm
Tuesday: 10am - 4pm
Wednesday: 10am - 2pm
HELLO, GOODBYE
Shaun Weston
About the exhibition:
Hello, Goodbye brings together painting and drawing-based works presented in pairs, exploring the interplay between comfort, vulnerability and transformation.
Using unique materials like chenille bedspreads, vintage wallpaper, upholstery fabrics and cardboard, Shaun Weston creates surfaces that invite close inspection. Through his familiar visual language of flowers, the body and domestic objects, he explores how personal histories are embedded in the materials of home. Each duo sits in quiet dialogue, echoing the tension between softness and resistance.
Shaped by a sensitivity to texture and memory, the exhibition holds space for the sensory traces of lived experience and the fragments we carry with us.
About the artist:
Shaun Weston is a visual artist based on Gubbi Gubbi Country / Redcliffe Peninsula, whose practice centres on memory, material and the domestic space. Working across painting and drawing, he creates tactile, layered surfaces using vintage fabrics and found materials that explore the interplay between comfort, vulnerability and transformation.
Shaun holds a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from Queensland University of Technology, along with qualifications in graphic design. His background in both disciplines informs a visually considered practice that balances intuitive process with refined composition.
His work has been recognised through selection in several national art prizes, including the Marie Ellis OAM Drawing Prize and The Gold Coast Art Prize. His pieces are held in public collections such as the Gold Coast University Hospital and Toowoomba Regional Gallery, as well as in private collections across Australia.
Weston’s practice is shaped by a sensitivity to texture and memory. Through the reuse of domestic materials, including upholstery fabrics, chenille bedspreads and vintage wallpaper, he builds works that invite close inspection, holding space for layered emotion and the sensory traces of lived experience.
Ink drawings form an integral part of his process, often created through a ritual of surrender and repetition, with select pieces becoming resolved works or forming parts of larger compositions.
With works presented in pairs, his exhibition ‘Hello, Goodbye’ explores the tension between softness and resistance, and the ways our personal histories are held within materials.