About the artist
Kristan Oud VAS is a second-generation artist, who has been painting since 2015. His contemporary works focus on extracting the raw beauty of nature and expressing it in a way that uplifts the soul.
With an affinity for colour and light - his dynamic, free flowing style is expressed via acrylic paint on canvas, and ink on paper.
Since 2015 he has exhibited in more than 50 select exhibitions. ‘Melbourne 360’ will be his 7th solo exhibition in 4 years.
In 2020 he became a Signatory Member of the Victorian Artists Society confirmed by its patron, the Governor of Victoria. He is one of the few artists in Australia to have received this award instituted by its founders Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin,
About the Gallery and exhibition
Since May 2022 Kristan Oud has documented the City of Melbourne on a nightly basis as it returns to life after experiencing the polar extremes of the most liveable city to the most locked down in the world.
Oud has now completed 365 drawings focusing on the architecture, art, hospitality, and sport that gives Melbourne its place as the cultural capital of Australia.
Keeping to the strict timetable of completing one drawing each night has been, in many ways, part of an artistic therapy to put the harsh environment and suffering, caused by COVID to the community, on a positive personal front for the wider community and visitors to appreciate and enjoy Melbourne.
The 360 degrees of locations begins at the Arts Centre and spirals out to Parliament House and round to Flinders Street Station, all capturing the bars, pubs and clubs that make Melbourne marvellous.
The 365 artworks are not just about the buildings and locations but about the people and their activities in the past and the future for Melbourne.
Melbourne 360 is an eclectic collection of sketches created in-situ. Each piece comes with a photo taken of the artist drawing on location.
