Jake Baglin

Ten Paintings and A Drawing

10 - 21 Dec 2025

Opening night

12 December | 6 - 8pm

G2

Artist Statement

Ten Paintings and a Drawing represents Baglin’s ongoing exploration of and engagement with a lineage of landscape painting which owes more to John Constable and Paul Cezanne than any Australian models, past or present.

Returning daily to specific Northcote locations, Baglin’s evolution within the landscape tradition is founded on a commitment to drawing on location. In the exhibition, the ten paintings—and one drawing—represent the culmination of four years of daily practice, observing, tracing and retracing points of orientation along Separation Street and Northcote Plaza environs.

This painterly remaking of Northcote landmarks describes a process of renewal in the face of the mundane, the ordinary, the familiar. Each work is a concentrated survey of the terrain with its own reorienting perspective of the urban milieu. Each point-of-view is a hard-won victory over the chaos of matter and the well-worn principles of Renaissance perspective, suggesting Baglin’s approach to landscape is not to immerse the viewer within a scene but to detail the artist’s efforts to find a viable way in.

Artist Biography

Jake Baglin, born in Townsville (1993) is an artist currently living and working in Northcote, Naarm (Melbourne). After traveling south-east Australia and Tasmania he completed a Diploma of Fine Arts at Frankston TAFE in 2013. He underwent his Bachelors of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts from 2015 to 2018. Baglin has been awarded painting prizes at both TAFE and VCA. He has participated in numerous group shows, had three solo shows at 484 Presents in 2021, 2023 and 2025 and a solo show at an ARI in 2024. Baglin is held in private collections in Australia.

Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au

Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map

How to get here
Tram: Route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens

Melway Ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets

Bus: 504 (Reid Street)