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“At this Point…” New work by Shane Forrest at Rogue Pop-Up Gallery from 2 September to 27 September 2026.

A point is an exact position.

It can be plural or singular.

A point has no size, shape or internal structure, yet can carry properties such as mass, charge and intention.

It can be sharp or blunt.

A point can relate to physical, geographical, emotional, temporal and quantum positions.

You can miss it, hit it, collapse it, follow it, use it, reach it, feel it, but you cannot know its exact position and momentum simultaneously.

We can enact its directives, follow it or benefit from accruing some.

When it interacts with money we can be rich or poor.

Etymologically, it derives from words for prick.

None of these points were the impetus for Shane Forrest’s new exhibition “At this point…”. Yet a title provides a compass, a playground of paradoxes, possibilities, problems and potentials, a set of points to stabilise thoughts around. Also, titles given to exhibitions and the works therein, are clues to something intangible, someone else’s thought processes. I’m up for a guess. Some of what I come up with is quite concrete, most is fictitious, all is ludic. And in this context, an interpretation on offer.

Since the condition of entropy is a self expressed key driver for Forrest’s artistic investigations, a review of Forrest’s previous work helps me locate a position for his current exhibition. In Forrest’s 2022 show, I decided I was being asked to consider an infinite external world of quantum entanglement, where spooky actions may happen at the same time over vast distances. The 2024 exhibition titled “LOOK” was a directive, with no direction. Where do I look, up, down, over there, or was I just required to LOOK using my two zeros (eyes). When actioned, this one word, capital letter demand to pay attention would result in someone stopping; freezing their movement to enact the command. So, in the exhibition “LOOK”, experiences of entropy, as depicted in the static surface of a painting, wait for a viewer to freeze and spend time unfreezing them.

Now, in 2026, “At this Point…” all the painting’s titles include the word “point” in some arrangement such as; Drive a point home, From point A to Point B, Point down, Point up, Saturation point, Lagrange point etc. My response to the exhibition title “At this point…” is to ask “what point”, then almost in the same breath -“what’s the point?”, quite restless and meta-cognitive questions about painting, the artworld, personal choices and even choices more vast and existential. In the small space of a painting’s dimensions the vast space of existential uncertainty is contained for consideration. Since entropy exists in many guises and domains, I find that in Forrest’s recent trajectory and current show he has respected the balance in the equation of the first law of thermodynamics, given the second another outing, and possibly hidden the third in plain sight.

Either way, a jiggling particle becomes a point when it interacts with an observer.
Jane Naylor

Shane Forrest – to the point

The weekend markets at Fairfield Showground have been one of western Sydney’s great institutions for over fifty years. Fresh fruit and vegetables, children’s clothes, second hand gear and hot food, all the stalls are placed in rows, each designated by a painted number. In time, as the numbers fade, they are repainted. But each time the stencils used to make the numbers are a slightly different design, or the painter has decided to put the number in a slightly different place. So over the years the layers of numbers act as ghosts of the histories of this place. I imagine that for stallholders and market regulars, the sight of these marks on asphalt could bring back many memories, rather like Proust’s experience of eating a madeleine.

Shane Forrest is an artist with his eyes firmly on the ground. He has long been fascinated by both the passing of time and the fading of its marks, which is why the multiple markings from the old market stalls are the subject of so many of his recent paintings.

Forrest  sees that nothing lasts, that entropy – the return to chaos from order – is the natural way of things. This is why he seeks to paint uneven pavements and fading lines. This is the artist as archaeologist, meticulously recording the fine details of time as it passes. His precise technique is reminiscent of the pointillists of Fin de Siècle France. Each tiny stoke is a very slight gradation of tone. Where possible he paints on recycled canvases and paper. Nothing is permanent.

His wife, Jane Naylor, has cheekily named each painting in relation to the points that make them. A painting of a fading white arrow is captioned To the Point. While it gives the impression of times past, this work is hardly static, as the pattern of leaves and swirls imply wind, weather and erosion. In Point of No Return, Forrest has painted numbers so faded that they are nothing but faint echoes. In Sore Point the corroded white line contrasts with the neat stones of the pavement, while the horizontal line of Zabrinski Point is a wilful distortion of Zabriskie Point, that iconic nihilistic movie of 1970.

At a time when the planet is burning and those in power seem determined to destroy the future of humanity, Shane Forrest’s paintings make me wonder about what will survive if people are no more. If we go the way of the dinosaurs, what will some future species make of the marks of our everyday lives?

Joanna Mendelssohn

Stretching The Point                     SOLD
acrylic on reused paper
56 x 38.5cm

Key Point                     $ 400
acrylic on reused paper
56 x 44.5cm

Jumping Off Point                     $ 400
acrylic on reused paper
56 x 37.5cm

Past The Point Of No Return                     SOLD
acrylic on reused paper
55 x 40cm

Drive A Point Home                     SOLD framed
acrylic on reclaimed canvas
36 x 46cm

Point To                     SOLD
acrylic on reused paper
60 x 28.5cm

Point Down                     $ 500 framed
acrylic on reused paper
34 x 49.5cm

Point Up                     $ 500 framed
acrylic on reused paper
34 x 48cm

Point Away                     $ 500 framed
acrylic on reused paper
33.5 x 48cm

Point Towards                     $ 500 framed
acrylic on reused paper
34 x 48cm

Pressure Point                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
53 x 73cm

Petite Point                     $ 450
acrylic on reused paper
56 x 51cm

Point In Time                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
50 x 70cm

Boiling Point                     $ 400
acrylic on reused paper
54 x 39cm

Exclamation Point                     $ 475
acrylic on reused paper
50 x 65cm

Win On Points                     SOLD
acrylic on reused paper
61 x 43cm

And Your Point Is…                    $ 400
mixed media on paper
53.5 x 38.5cm

Finer Points                     SOLD
acrylic on reused paper
56 x 76cm

Get To The Point                     $ 450
acrylic on reused paper
60 x 40cm

Moot Point                     $ 350
acrylic on reused paper
56 x 30cm

Point Of View                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
53.5 x 78.5cm

Saturation Point                     $ 300
acrylic on reused paper
53 x 30cm

Point Of No Return                     $ 300
acrylic on reused paper
50 x 30cm

Melting Point                     $ 400
acrylic on reused paper
38 x 54cm

Beyond The Point                     $ 400
acrylic on reused paper
38 x 54cm

End Point                     $ 300
acrylic on reused paper
30 x 50cm

Case In Point                     $ 475
acrylic on reused paper
50 x 65cm

No Point                     $ 450
acrylic on reused paper
61 x 43cm

On Point                     $ 350
acrylic on reused paper
60 x 28cm

Vanishing Point                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
53.5 x 74.5cm

Percentage Point                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
72.5 x 53.5cm

Crossover                    $ 450
bread trays, reclaimed wood, acrylic paint
62 x 35 x 10cm

Crossmatched                    $ 450
bread trays, reclaimed wood, acrylic paint
57 x 32 x 10cm

Cross Purpose                    $ 450
bread trays, reclaimed wood, acrylic paint
63.5 x 35.5 x 9.5cm

Point To Point                     $ 700 framed
acrylic on reclaimed canvas
92 x 61cm

Orbit                    $ 400
reclaimed wood, science equipment, acrylic paint
37.5 x 22 x 18cm

Ozone                    $ 400
reclaimed wood, science equipment, acrylic paint
44 x 20 x 14cm

System                    $ 400
reclaimed wood, science equipment, acrylic paint
43.5 x 18 x 13cm

Deep Thought                    $ 400
reclaimed wood, science equipment, acrylic paint
43.5 x 30 x 28cm

Vantage Point                     $ 475
acrylic on reused paper
57.5 x 52cm

Point Of View                     $ 475
acrylic on reused paper
57.5 x 52cm

Straight To The Point                     $ 450 framed
acrylic on reused paper
43 x 61cm

Crosswalk                    $ 200
bread trays, reclaimed wood, acrylic paint
29 x 17 x 5cm

Crosscheck                    $ 200
bread trays, reclaimed wood, acrylic paint
23.5 x 14 x 5cm

Crosscut                    SOLD
bread trays, reclaimed wood, acrylic paint
25 x 14 x 5cm

Across                    $ 200
bread trays, reclaimed wood, acrylic paint
26 x 14 x 5cm

Crossbreed                    $ 200
bread trays, reclaimed wood, acrylic paint
24.5 x 15.5 x 5cm

Point & Click                     SOLD framed
acrylic on reused paper
60 x 43cm

Appointment                     $ 375 framed
acrylic on reclaimed canvas
46 x 35.5cm

Breaking Point                     $ 550 framed
acrylic on reclaimed canvas
61 x 45.5cm

Flash Point                     $ 650 framed
acrylic on reclaimed canvas
76 x 61cm

Point Form                     $ 550 framed
acrylic on reclaimed canvas
60 x 45cm

Standpoint                     $ 375 framed
acrylic on reclaimed canvas
46 x 35.5cm

Point Of Entry                     $ 300 framed
acrylic on reclaimed canvas
40 x 30cm

Miss The Point                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
76.5 x 56cm

From Point A To Point B                     $ 630 framed
acrylic on reused paper
54 x 38cm

What’s The Point?                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
78.5 x 53.5cm

Lagrange Point                     $ 300 framed
acrylic on reclaimed canvas
40 x 30cm

Beside The Point                     $ 730 framed
acrylic on reused paper
61 x 43cm

High Point                     $ 450
acrylic on reused paper
56 x 44.5cm

Turning Point                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
78.5 x 54cm

Cutoff Point                     SOLD
acrylic on reused paper
78.5 x 54cm

When It Comes To The Point                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
72 x 47.5cm

Miss The Point                     SOLD
acrylic on reused paper
63.5 x 53.5cm

See The Point                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
70 x 50cm

Point Taken                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
78 x 54cm

Double Crossed                     $ 500
reclaimed wood, acrylic paint
77 x 39.5 x 10cm

Boiling Point                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
78.5 x 53cm

Reference Point                     $ 350
acrylic on reused paper
32.5 x 53cm

Point Of Contact                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
78 x 54cm

Sore Point                     $ 350
acrylic on reused paper
32.5 x 53cm

Checkpoint                     $ 475
acrylic on reused paper
65 x 50cm

Point System                     SOLD
acrylic on reused paper
32.5 x 53cm

Sticking Point                     $ 550
acrylic on reclaimed canvas
60 x 45cm

Point Of Contact                     $ 500
acrylic on reused paper
78 x 54cm

Zabrinski Point                     $ 425 framed
acrylic on reclaimed canvas
30.5 x 61cm

Tipping Point                     SOLD
acrylic on reused paper
63.5 x 53.5cm

To The Point                    SOLD framed
acrylic on reused paper
61 x 41cm

Argue The Point                     $ 350
acrylic on reused paper
30 x 56cm

Roadblock                    $ 450
reclaimed cardboard, acrylic paint
47 x 40 x 6.5cm

*All artist profit donated to Nature Conservancy