“I find them interesting because of the way he approaches the material. He puts on layers, then pulls back, then he might engrave them and put on some more,” Baird said. 

“His work is constantly evolving, it’s not just paint on a canvas, you see the process before it becomes a sculpture.”

Viney’s latest works are on show at the gallery, with Baird saying they are the type of works artists would like.

“Artists tend to look at works differently than someone who wants a pretty picture to put on their wall. They understand the concepts and processes more than most,” she said. 

His latest exhibition, Enclose/Disclose, is about opposites, Viney said. 

“The title of the exhibition tells you something. The simple meaning of the word enclose is to wrap, which suggests protection from outside forces, but it also suggests being afraid to let the outside world penetrate,” Viney said. 

“Disclose is that suggestion that if it is the opposite of that, instead of enclosing the truth, you’re disclosing it.”

Viney said he hoped his works had implied that notion over the years, but this exhibition made it more pronounced. 

The works have a range of different artistic styles. 

“In this exhibition there is drawing, which often comes first and is not shown but I saw these as finished works in their own right,” Viney said. 

“There is also some print making, some sculpture and some paintings. It’s a mixture of all those pieces.”

The monochrome works prove that Viney is not a colourist, he said. 

“Because it’s essentially a black and white show I’ve included a quote from Alberto Manguel about white and a quote from Seri Hustvedt about black which is really important because it’s pretty essential to what the exhibition is about,” he said.  

“Enclosure is the black, which is an extreme and the white is an extreme, and in the middle there sits the grey. The grey is mutual, the black is bold the white is silence.” 

The latest exhibition took about one year to put together. 

“The year includes preparatory drawings or working drawing. I do a lot of sketching and it includes then going through that and disseminating what is not quite pertinent and putting together what you see in your mind that could be an exhibition,” he said.    

“There is a lot of coming and going, and throwing aside, and then the core of all that is then worked on.”

Viney previously had an exhibition at the gallery about two years ago. 

The Enclose/Disclose exhibition opened on June 20. It is on show until July 14.