Open at Gallery 48 until December 2025 and some works are available after 28 January 2026
These are funny stories where Kennett-raj takes a tongue in cheek look at some serious issues.
Theodore Kennett-raj’s paintings evoke a sense of fun, to present many serious topics. These topics range from environmental disasters to some consequences of extreme wealth; with their respective cost to the planet. Kennett-raj has a background in fashion design which gives him an advantage in designing images and characters for his stories. Many figures are put together as single pieces and later added to his compositions in painting. From this process Kennett-raj presents a wide variety of characters as visual figurines for various stories.
until 17 December 2025
10. Instagram influencer
$580
A story of a woman called Karen, who went through her pregnancy on Instagram, the child is delivered by a midwife on Instagram. Karen becomes a star on instagram. Later Karen has a face lift on instagram, she recovers from her face lift on instagram – this gives Karen more fame and she becomes an influencer on instagram. Each frame of this narrative is set within a frame of the apple phone.
16.Black cat on a catwalk
$650
Subject – Towards the end of a fashion parade when all the Models walk on the cat walk with the designer, a black cat walks on the cat walk – everything goes wrong on the cat walk – there are wardrobe malfunctions and high heels breaking etc. It makes this parade a total fiasco.
13. The day fashion began
$580
A very twisted story of how fashion began. Adam and Eve have deceived God by eating the fruit of knowledge. This exposes their nudity and they need to cover up. God summons his sewing angel to quickly sew leaves together to cover their nudity, thus fashion began.
7. Buddha says breathe $ 560
Subject – here we have Buddha breathing through a mask, as COVID is floating around him. The animals around Buddha are Australian wild life.
Subject – A beach sene with wired and wonderful things happening, a delightful fun painting to enjoy.
18. On golden sand
$550
Just a beach painting with strange activities.
Imprisoned by nature
12. Imprisoned by nature
$550
Two humans are imprisoned by the natural world. This is to emphasize the demise of the human population and the take over of this planet by nature. The very few who are left behind are imprisoned by nature.
11. Night sweeper
$550
This painting is about humans and their habits of littering every wherever they go. A street sweeper is sweeping the floor of a forest which is littered with debris and litter. The forest bunny is requesting the humans not to litter.
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