Yannick Blattner aligns Australian cricket and art histories for his forthcoming exhibition Contrived Circumstances. Borrowing from the culturally significant and historically loaded sport Contrived Circumstances reconstructs found images and scenes. Laced with ambiguity and visual allegories Blattner's paintings interrogate cricket’s colonial past and the impact it has in defining Australia’s cultural characteristics and masculine ethos. Contrived Circumstances reflects on the presumed societal tension between sport and art – mixing the seemingly cultured with the seemingly uncultured....
