CES MCCULLY
Ces McCully is an Australian artist based in the south of France. Her paintings explore human contradictions — between self and other, confession and disguise, hard and soft — across three strands: monsters, abstract 'soft paintings' and text works. Together, they form one language about how we project, polarise, and find balance in a divided world.
MONSTERS AS MIRRORS
The 'monstre' paintings are not portraits, but projections. Each figure embodies the “other” we create to hold fear, anger, or desire — the parts of ourselves and society we try to push away. They are playful and unsettling at the same time, revealing how we polarise and disguise. The monsters stand as mirrors: archetypes of the roles we invent and the contradictions we live with.
BALANCE IN TENSION
Fabric embedded into canvas and entirely painted in forms that sit somewhere between geometry and language, each work collapses hard and soft, balance and friction. These abstractions are quieter than the monsters or text pieces, but carry the same theme of opposites held together.
CONFESSION, COMMENTARY, CHORUS
What began as blunt personal confessions has shifted into social psychology — group behaviour, polarisation, and the voices we share. Phrases like 'Mistakes Make Me Like You' or 'We Make Better Sense Together' hold up a mirror to collective thought, acting as both a critique and a rallying cry.
