Gerard Russo is a Melbourne-based artist. After completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT university he began to experiment further at his home studio with copper etching and his love for expressive mark making.

Illuminated artefacts of copper and timber may best describe Gerard’s work, as they are elegantly industrial in material and contemporary in form. Gerard interprets the long standing methods of painting, mark-making and copper etching to inform the creation of his contemporary luminaires. The mark-making is paramount to his art and it is evident that in the enduring image etched into the copper, that the strokes are from a hand that aspires to sketch. We see the expressivity as embossed raw texture along with an extra sense of depth from the reflectivity in the elemental copper that envelopes the glowing imagery. He lets impressions like stillness, pensiveness or awe, be the driver for each work. Gerard’s work is often figurative yet we should expect the sentiment behind each artwork to be expressed using a variety of subjects such as vista of trees or a street perspective. For Gerard, the subject in his works are seldom more important than the suggestions they might convey.

Gerard has exhibited in Australia and internationally.