The Sirius Building by Nico Tracey Bartosz Walat Working in the shin-hanga tradition

Working in the shin-hanga tradition

light-filled brushwork that defines French Impressionism at its most joyful

and a composition designed to be read at a distance as well as up close

saturated colour fields

The Sirius Building by Nico Tracey Bartosz Walat Working in the shin-hanga traditionThe Sirius Building is one of Sydney's most contested pieces of Brutalist heritage, and Nico Tracey approaches it with a collage sensibility that matches the building's own fractured history. Geometric forms layer over one another in a compressed, high contrast composition hard architectural lines interrupted by graphic bursts of colour and texture. The mood is simultaneously documentary and declarative, blending a visual record of the structure with