Dylan Perlowski is an artist who works across illustration, painting, and screen printing. His work comments on modern Australian culture and the societal expectations he must negotiate as part of this culture. Perlowski uses printmaking processes and illustrative pen drawings to produce flamboyant boastful colours and compositions. His flamboyancy is captured in the colours, invoking an unrefined sense of gender and identity to create colourful displays of abstract form, shape and style that represent the noisy mess that is life.
Man Up is a series of memories and thoughts expressed as a poetic structure. Through his work, Perlowski reveals intense and suppressed emotions that respond to personal encounters with hypermasculinity within an Australian context. Through layers of screen-printed colour and handwritten words, colour and text clash and merge, seeking attention and discussion.
