Mesmerising psychedelic compositions by artist Sam Chirnside

Date
27 March 2015

I don’t know what it is about seeing colours up close that’s so mesmerising, but Sam Chirnside is all over it. The Melbourne and New York-based artist works predominantly with oil paints to create strangely beautiful distortions, which work best when overlaid with a band logo to create album artwork, or cut out in geometric shapes. His works resemble planetary compositions straight out of a senior school physics textbook or a happy spillage in an art classroom, and we can’t get enough of them.

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Sam Chirnside: Ascension

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Sam Chirnside: Harmony

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Sam Chirnside: Resonate

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Sam Chirnside: Decay

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Sam Chirnside: Fluidity

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Sam Chirnside: Rhythm

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Sam Chirnside: Visions

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Sam Chirnside: Visions

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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