Connor Grogan 'HYPERCENE'

14 November – 7 December 2025

Hypercene

Connor Grogan’s painting practice both emerges from and responds to the accelerated pace and proliferation of images in the digital age. In Hypercene — a neologism evoking an era of excess — the relentless flux of the present is explored through the collapse of temporal boundaries where the archaic and futuristic converge in unearthly landscapes that defy narratives.

The paintings in this exhibition are a reconfiguration of found and archival imagery drawn from history, mythology, and science. Motifs from disparate sources are collaged, abstracted and juxtaposed to form reimagined scenes akin to relics from the future. The resulting compositions, though traditional in their techniques and materials, are rendered in unnatural scales and anomalous colours, conjuring enigmatic atmospheres that hover between the monumental and the spectral.

Within these contemplative yet charged environments, Hypercene considers how images persist, mutate, and return — and how, through painting, they might be reoriented toward renewed forms of attention and reflection, allowing us, if only momentarily, to withstand the speed of the world.

Artist Bio

Conor Grogan (b. 1983, Dublin) is an artist based in Victoria, Australia. After completing the International Baccalaureate at St. Andrew's College, Dublin (2000), and Foundation Studies at Wimbledon School of Art, London (2001), Grogan relocated to Australia in 2008, where he has since exhibited widely in both Melbourne and Dublin. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Angle of Decline (Chapma and Bailey, 2010), Crystal Palms (The Substation, 2012), The Banyule Award for Works on Paper (2013), and International Airspace (Place Gallery, 2014). Grogan's practice continues to evolve across mediums and contexts, reflecting a sustained engagement with materiality, perception, and the passage of time.