ABOUT

A Remote Dawn
"Adam Derums' work is a derision of absolute materialism. In Derums' world, matter is experienced not as an end point, or accumulation of dead weight (as inert) but rather as a possibility of an event. For Derums, matter is the result of an energetic catastrophe, a cataclysmic occurrence that bares the soul of creation, the atom exploding, the orgasmic appearance of life, the rupture of darkness...light out of dark, form from poetic vision".
- Ric Spencer

Adam Derums is an Australian painter whose large-scale works emerge through prolonged acts of repetition, accumulation and contemplation. Developed over years of sustained studio engagement, the paintings investigate perception, time, memory and states of consciousness within contemporary life.

Working between abstraction and atmospheric figuration, Derums creates immersive surfaces that resist immediacy, instead unfolding slowly through duration and attention.

His work has been exhibited in Australia, Berlin, Singapore, New York and Italy, and is held in major public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia and Artbank.