Darren Munce creates works that are compelling investigations into the visual language of painterly abstraction. Driven by a research-based interest in the methods and processes that surround the language of painting, his works exist as experimental negotiations with geometry, colour, material and surface.

His beautifully crafted paintings stimulate the viewers’ sensory memory and create a generous visual exchange. Drawing from a wide variety of contrasting external sources, Munce assembles self-authored signs to present woven networks of technically structured compositions; cropped street fashion motifs may be partnered with architectural forms and rendered using a colour palette inspired from a children’s book. The works generate new relations and potential associations, while promoting an aliveness through their multiplicity of pictorial structures.

Born in Sydney and currently based in Melbourne, Darren Munce holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), a Diploma of Visual Art from RMIT and a Diploma of Graphic Design from Sydney Institute of Technology. With a background in commercial signwriting and graphic design, for over a decade Munce has worked in the Painting Department at VCA, sharing his considerable technical experience in support of the current generation of emerging visual artists.

Munce has undertaken tours and residencies in Europe and North America to inform his practice and deepen his understanding of the divergent histories of painting.