David Jolly’s paintings intimately chronicle the world around him. Beginning with photographic and video documentation of places, Jolly then paints selected scenes in a precise and painstaking manner onto glass panels. The shift between the ‘snapshot’ aesthetic of the original documentation and the slowly rendered paintings reveal strikingly poetic narratives. For Melbourne Now, the artist has drawn on his store of images of Melbourne, augmenting them with new documentation of places within the city that can be reached via public transport and bike travel.
