MOON'S PATH
james riches
8–12 may 2025
In Moon’s Path, James Riches traces the subtle shifts in light and colour as the moon moves across the sky. Through soft glows, gradated palettes, and shadowed landscapes, the series evokes the melancholic stillness of night and a shared sense of wonder beneath a common sky.
These works are compelling not only for Riches’ ability to capture the physical qualities of moonlight, but for his sensitivity to the quiet, almost sacred atmosphere it creates. Moon’s Path is a meditation on the beauty found not just in place, but in the passage of time and light.
Pre–sale for these artworks will go live on Wednesday 7 May at 5PM.
This collection will be on display in our Ground Floor Gallery from 8–12 May.
Over the past twenty years, Melbourne-based artist James Riches has cultivated a quiet and sensitive approach to painting, conjuring atmospheric vistas that reward slow, introspective observation as remedy to the attention-demanding immediacy of our image-saturated world.
Trained as a drawer and now primarily painting with oils, James Riches’s small-scale impressions of suburban landscapes evoke the humble, sometimes melancholic, and nostalgic connection we share with the places we inhabit. Never painting from direct observation, Riches rescues fleeting moments from the thaw of time, allowing for the transformations of memory and imagination to turn these ephemeral lightscapes into compositional studies rich in feeling.
“I think painting has the ability to morph our moods and give us measure as our responses change over time through different stages of life.”
James Riches (b. 1973) is an Australian artist living and working in Melbourne. With a career spanning more than two decades, Riches’s work has been exhibited extensively in group and solo shows nationwide. Majoring in drawing, Riches graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from RMIT in 2008. He is currently represented by Brunswick Street Gallery.
