Aaron Christopher Rees is a multidisciplinary artist who recycles images to consider how technology and the act of picture-making mediates our experience of the world. His practice is concerned with affect, phenomenology and abstraction, with recent work taking form as site-specific installations where screens interpolate space.
Recent exhibitions include: Conditional Surplus, as a part of Channels VIdeo art Festival (2017); Another Space, Testing Grounds, Melbourne (2017); Inherent Vice, Nicholas Projects, Melbourne (2017); Speculative Foundations, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne (2016); Impressions of Mars (with Olivia Koh); Visual Bulk, Hobart (2016); Transference, Bus Projects, Collingwood (2016); Weeping Willow, LON Gallery, Collingwood (2016); The Bathhouse Show, Space Space Gallery, Tokyo (2016); Is/Is not, West Space, Melbourne (2016); 1/60; 5/5.0, TCB, Melbourne (2015); In the Epoch of the Near and Far, Grey Gardens Projects, Fitzroy (2015). In 2015 Rees was awarded the VCA Emerging Artist Prize, the Orloff Family Charitable Trust Award and the Omnus Framing Award. Prior to this, he was the recipient of a Majilis Encouragement Award, 2014; The Blair Trethowan TCB Art Inc. Award, 2014; Melbourne University Arts Grant, 2014; and The Framed Award at the CCP Kodak Salon, 2012.
