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Tarn McLean

 DUOCHROME #17 

 

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 Oil on canvas, 20x 16 inches, 2025 

Tarn McLean is an Australian artist based in Toowoomba, Queensland, whose work explores the perceptual and emotional potential of pure colour. Her duochrome paintings, informed by the non-objective traditions of Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, and Barnett Newman, present colour as both material and experience. Drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception, McLean creates immersive chromatic fields that slow the act of looking in an age of visual saturation. Her works invite sustained, embodied engagement, positioning colour as the subject itself and the viewer’s perception as an active, relational space.

$2,600