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Courtney Young: Bank Manager Hour

Three canvases showing abstract paintings, the left of a checkered floor, a pink hawk and a tree, the right of two red roses surrounded by dark blocks of colour

Courtney Young
Bank Manager Hour
Install Shot, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2023
Image by Jeremy Weihrauch

Bank manager hour refers to the time of day when the sun is setting and casting a golden light over the landscape. It’s the most appropriate time for the bank manager to visit the farm.

In this new body of work, local artist and farmer Courtney Young digs into her and her family’s connection to farming, land, and land ownership. Young’s colourful, layered and textured paintings merge memories and stories of farms from her childhood as well as that of her own children. Young is interested in the culture and complex history of farming in Australia, its whiteness, and the dominating paradigm of property and possession.

About the artist

Courtney Young is an artist and agroecological farmer based in Rutherglen, Victoria. Through her place-based practice, Young is interested in challenging prevailing colonial approaches to understanding and perceiving the landscape, and examining her identity and privilege as a farmer in Australia. Her paintings often border abstraction and are grounded in a love of colour, texture and layers.

A man and woman talk to each other in front of a large painting of a small child standing on a mini horse
Courtney Young

Bank Manager Hour,
Opening event,
Murray Art Museum Albury, 2023
Image Jeremy Weihrauch

An abstract painting of a person sitting on a horse, a dog and a crow flying below a sun
Courtney Young

Selling Sunsets with Tom Roberts,
Murray Art Museum Albury, 2023
Image Jeremy Weihrauch

Two canvases showing abstract landscapes, the left of a checkered floor, a pink hawk and a tree, the right of two red roses surrounded by dark blocks of colour
Courtney Young

Bank Manager Hour,
Installation view
Murray Art Museum Albury, 2023
Image Jeremy Weihrauch

A painting of a hand holding a blue yabby on a yellow background
Courtney Young

Winnie Blue
Murray Art Museum Albury, 2023
Image Jeremy Weihrauch

A woman looking at a wall of paintings
Courtney Young

Bank Manager Hour,
Opening event,
Murray Art Museum Albury, 2023
Image Jeremy Weihrauch

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