The Place of Concord : Jason Cordero

5 - 30 August 2025
Overview

Lennox St. Gallery is pleased to present The Place of Concord, an exhibition of recent paintings by Jason Cordero.

The exploration of aesthetic possibilities within the landscape genre continues in the present suite of paintings. By contrast to previous exhibitions, the majority of works are carried out on an intimate scale. If large-scale works require the viewer to step back appreciatively to immerse oneself in the composition, the modest scale of these pieces invite art lovers to position themselves within their intimate proximity to pause, contemplate, and reflect. The resulting interaction benefits not only the examination of intricate, puzzling, and thought-provoking visions but also heightens the appreciation of the artist's refined brushwork, glazing, and pigment application. 


The European source of inspiration is evident through the evocation of the Sublime and Romanticism of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Continental masters, and perhaps even the echoes of the monumentality captured by the painters of the American Hudson River school. However, the partial rejection of the symmetry of European flora in preference to the unpredictability of the sinuousness of trunks and branches of the innumerable varieties of the eucalypt suggests Australian, and, in particular, South Australian, school of landscape painting. The exploration of Australian flora’s aesthetic potential reverberates throughout Cordero’s oeuvre


Smaller studies, such as The First, The Second, The Third, and The Fourth, suggest that an actual place is at the source of Cordero’s vision, but that the filter of highly personal aesthetic prism turns them into imagined spaces of infinite interpretations and possibilities. Already intimated in The Third, such paintings as Not wanting to draw attention to oneself, The first and the second, Between morning and evening, and, of course, the spectacular The Bridge suggest a mysterious portal to the unknown. So far as I recall, The conjunction of the winds, and After several iterations may reference wind-gnarled tree trunks, ubiquitous throughout the Australian terrain, but turned by Cordero’s brush into spectacles of labyrinthine complexities. 


The quality of light is central to Jason’s works. It gives them volume, direction, and unity; it allows for a myriad of tonal variations; and it gifts each piece an emotional profundity. A closer examination of the monumentally scaled That the day may end or begin, or its smaller cousins, It seemed obvious at the time, They didn’t seem to be failing, as well as the artist’s classic and perennially beloved inverted landscapes, such as The forest’s edge proved uncertain, reveals multiple sources of light. These works unite, within a single image, several vignettes of related landscapes during different times of the day, whether the early morning, the high noon, or the evening twilight. This stratagem allows the artist to introduce and account for multiple sources of light within the same image while maintaining its compositional coherency. 


The visual rebus of the compositions is paralleled by the evocative complexity of Jason’s titles. Together, they imbue compositions with emotive pathos, turning a walk through the exhibition into a journey through states of mind, culminating, perhaps, with The scholar could not but say, where the slither of pale blue within the impenetrable forest brings a promise of renewal.  


Jason Cordero studied at the South Australian School of Art, University of Adelaide, and began holding solo exhibitions regularly since the mid-1990s in Adelaide, Sydney, Hobart, and Melbourne. A survey exhibition of the artist’s works, Between the Hours, was held at Gippsland Art Gallery in 2013, and accompanied by a monograph with an exhibition essay by the Gallery’s director, Simon Gregg. The artist had won a number of prizes and awards for his works, including The Heysen Prize for Australian Landscape and The John Leslie Art Prize; was selected as the winner in the People’s Choice category in Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize, R&M McGivern Prize, The Alice Prize, and The Glover Prize, and his works were selected as finalists in The Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship, Waterhouse Natural History Prize, Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Paddington Art Prize, and numerous others. Cordero’s works reside in the Artbank, the Federal Parliament House, the Gippsland Art Gallery, and further corporate and private collections across Australia and abroad. The artist lives and works in Adelaide. 

 
Works
  • The Cartographers Advice Was Quietly Surpassed
    Jason Cordero
    The Cartographers Advice Was Quietly Surpassed, 2024-2025
    Oil on linen
    102 x 164 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The Cartographers Advice Was Quietly Surpassed, 2024-2025
    $ 16,000.00
  • That the day may end or begin
    Jason Cordero
    That the day may end or begin, 2025
    Oil on linen
    102 x 163 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, That the day may end or begin, 2025
    $ 16,000.00
  • There were decisions to be made
    Jason Cordero
    There were decisions to be made, 2021
    Oil on linen
    102 x 152 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, There were decisions to be made, 2021
    $ 15,000.00
  • The first day since the last
    Jason Cordero
    The first day since the last, 2021
    Oil on linen
    122 x 122 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The first day since the last, 2021
    $ 15,000.00
  • Come that I may see you
    Jason Cordero
    Come that I may see you, 2025
    Oil on linen
    122 x 122 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, Come that I may see you, 2025
    $ 15,000.00
  • The Will of the Wind
    Jason Cordero
    The Will of the Wind, 2025
    Oil on linen
    62 x 102 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The Will of the Wind, 2025
    $ 7,500.00
  • The Bridge
    Jason Cordero
    The Bridge, 2025
    Oil on linen
    52 x 84 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The Bridge, 2025
    $ 6,500.00
  • Upon the Edge
    Jason Cordero
    Upon the Edge, 2025
    Oil on linen
    56 x 66 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, Upon the Edge, 2025
    $ 5,200.00
  • Upon the Rise All Did Gather
    Jason Cordero
    Upon the Rise All Did Gather, 2025
    Oil on linen
    56 x 66 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, Upon the Rise All Did Gather, 2025
    $ 5,200.00
  • Not one nor the other
    Jason Cordero
    Not one nor the other, 2025
    Oil on linen
    56 x 66 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, Not one nor the other, 2025
    $ 5,200.00
  • Otherwise said
    Jason Cordero
    Otherwise said, 2025
    Oil on linen
    56 x 66 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, Otherwise said, 2025
    $ 5,200.00
  • The forest's edge proved uncertain
    Jason Cordero
    The forest's edge proved uncertain, 2025
    Oil on linen
    56 x 66 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The forest's edge proved uncertain, 2025
    $ 5,200.00
  • Where decision was made
    Jason Cordero
    Where decision was made, 2025
    Oil on linen
    56 x 66 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, Where decision was made, 2025
    $ 5,200.00
  • The Congress
    Jason Cordero
    The Congress, 2025
    Oil on linen
    56 x 62 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The Congress, 2025
    $ 5,200.00
  • The Place of Concord
    Jason Cordero
    The Place of Concord, 2025
    Oil on linen
    46 x 72 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The Place of Concord, 2025
    $ 5,000.00
  • The conjunction of the winds
    Jason Cordero
    The conjunction of the winds, 2025
    Oil on aluminium panel
    40 x 40 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The conjunction of the winds, 2025
    $ 3,900.00
  • So far as I recall
    Jason Cordero
    So far as I recall, 2025
    Oil on aluminium panel
    40 x 40 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, So far as I recall, 2025
    $ 3,900.00
  • On this occasion an allowance was made
    Jason Cordero
    On this occasion an allowance was made, 2025
    Oil on aluminium panel
    40 x 40 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, On this occasion an allowance was made, 2025
    $ 3,900.00
  • It seemed obvious at the time
    Jason Cordero
    It seemed obvious at the time, 2025
    Oil on aluminium panel
    40 x 40 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, It seemed obvious at the time, 2025
    $ 3,900.00
  • After several iterations
    Jason Cordero
    After several iterations, 2025
    Oil on aluminium panel
    40 x 40 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, After several iterations, 2025
    $ 3,900.00
  • Of the 12th hour
    Jason Cordero
    Of the 12th hour, 2025
    Oil on linen on panel
    30 x 40 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, Of the 12th hour, 2025
    $ 2,800.00
  • Not wanting to draw attention to oneself
    Jason Cordero
    Not wanting to draw attention to oneself, 2025
    Oil on linen on panel
    30 x 40 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, Not wanting to draw attention to oneself, 2025
    $ 2,800.00
  • The scholar could naught but say
  • The first and the second
    Jason Cordero
    The first and the second, 2025
    Oil on linen on panel
    30 x 40 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The first and the second, 2025
    $ 2,800.00
  • A simple task
    Jason Cordero
    A simple task, 2025
    Oil on linen on panel
    30 x 40 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, A simple task, 2025
    $ 2,800.00
  • They didn't seem to be falling
    Jason Cordero
    They didn't seem to be falling, 2025
    Oil on aluminium panel
    40 x 30 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, They didn't seem to be falling, 2025
    $ 2,800.00
  • The hours came
    Jason Cordero
    The hours came, 2025
    Oil on aluminium panel
    40 x 30 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The hours came, 2025
    $ 2,800.00
  • Between morning and evening
    Jason Cordero
    Between morning and evening, 2025
    Oil on aluminium panel
    40 x 30 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, Between morning and evening, 2025
    $ 2,800.00
  • A Conversation of the Solitary
    Jason Cordero
    A Conversation of the Solitary, 2025
    Oil on aluminium panel
    40 x 30 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, A Conversation of the Solitary, 2025
    $ 2,800.00
  • And yet consensus remained illusive
    Jason Cordero
    And yet consensus remained illusive, 2025
    Oil on aluminium panel
    40 x 30 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, And yet consensus remained illusive, 2025
    $ 2,800.00
  • One or the other
    Jason Cordero
    One or the other, 2025
    Oil on linen on panel
    30 x 30 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, One or the other, 2025
    $ 2,200.00
  • When was of no concern
    Jason Cordero
    When was of no concern, 2025
    Oil on linen on panel
    30 x 30 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, When was of no concern, 2025
    $ 2,200.00
  • The waters were still
    Jason Cordero
    The waters were still, 2025
    Oil on linen on panel
    30 x 30 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The waters were still, 2025
    $ 2,200.00
  • The Alignment
    Jason Cordero
    The Alignment, 2025
    Oil on linen on panel
    30 x 30 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The Alignment, 2025
    $ 2,200.00
  • The first
    Jason Cordero
    The first, 2025
    Oil on linen on panel
    20 x 20 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The first, 2025
    $ 900.00
  • The second
    Jason Cordero
    The second, 2025
    Oil on linen on panel
    20 x 20 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The second, 2025
    $ 900.00
  • The third
    Jason Cordero
    The third, 2025
    Oil on linen on panel
    20 x 20 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The third, 2025
    $ 900.00
  • The fourth
    Jason Cordero
    The fourth, 2025
    Oil on linen on panel
    20 x 20 cm
    Lennox St. Gallery - Jason Cordero, The fourth, 2025
    $ 900.00