David Fairbairn, Nanda/Hobbs

For a change I went to this show with Omer and Ming, friends of long standing. I hadn't been to this gallery for a while.

Fairbairn has a sort of Francis Bacon vibe but he also reminded me of Kevin Connor (represented by Liverpool St Gallery). I'd seen Connor some time before in the context of perhaps buying a work. 

I heard froma  man in a green jacket I met at the show that Fairbairn was originally English and migrated to Australia. I don't know if this is true. 

I quite like his work. I didn't in the end buy any of the Connor drawings.

The aesthetic is sort of 90s street grunge, and I kinda appreciate what these artists are trying to do but it's not where my heart tlies.