Purple Cabbage, oil on linen on marine ply, 20 x 25cm, framed
Tom CARMENT is a finalist in the 2025 Korean Australian Art Foundation Prize, with two paintings: Broccoli, 2025 and Purple Cabbage, 2025 (images below).
Both works are available for sale, please contact us via art@kingstreetgallery.com with an enquiries or call us on 02 936 09727.
Tom’s artist statements:
Purple Cabbage, 2025:
‘There’s a Japanese lady with a stall at our local Farmers’ Market who counts your money using an abacus. She doesn’t have a great variety of fruit and vegetables but what’s there is all grown by her and is always good. I saw this quartered purple cabbage on her display a month ago and had to paint it. I cooked it later in a chicken and veg curry.’
Broccoli, 2025:
‘I eat broccoli with most of my meals but two months ago was the first time I had painted some. During the August Sydney deluge I placed a head of it on a white wooden plank on the floor in the light from a downstairs window. It looked a bit like a felled tree. I went on to do four broccoli paintings and this one was my favourite.’
Exhibition Dates: 21 November 2025 – 16 January 2026
Korean Cultural Centre Gallery: 255 Elizabeth St, Sydney NSW 2000 Weekdays 10am – 6pm
