Same Strokes, Different Folks.

Same Strokes, Different Folks 

This latest body of works was created after a trip through Europe, where I found a lot of inspiration from the art, history, and culture. The pieces in this series carry influences from mythological statues and the brushwork of artists like Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, Cy Twombly, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, and Serge Vandercam.

You’ll also see symbols like the Nike swoosh, basketballs, and shoes, which connect to my upbringing in the Australian countryside. Growing up, brands and material wealth were often out of reach, and these elements represent that part of my story while also commenting on the bigger picture of identity and culture.

This body of work brings together personal memories and global influences, mixing high art with everyday symbols to explore how these worlds overlap and shape our experiences.

"Quinn is a kindred spirit of the CoBrA artists of the 1940s and 1950s who challenged the cool conceptualism of the art world by tapping into the primal energy and colour found in the drawings of children. Their refreshing freedom and wisdom can be found in the ghostly traces of paint and graphite of Quinn’s rough-hewn canvases, and inscribed on his ceramic figures that give a cheeky wink to the marble mythology of ancient empires – MAD magazine monuments that mark our movement through the artist’s painted world.

Accumulating on the patina of both these mediums is a palimpsest of intuitive scores and scrawls that we can read and riff with at random. And released in between these different records and notes is a voice that resonates clearly and without apology, speaking volumes"

— Michael Fitzgerald, author of Late: A Novel (2023) and Senior Editor at Powerhouse Museum, Sydney