Phantasmagorical pooches arrive at Jacky Winter for the premier of Jeremy Dower’s first major solo exhibition of large and small scale digital paintings, and the first show of 2011 at Jacky Winter’s new home at the Compound Interest in Collingwood.

Corrupting the Latin scientific name for the domestic dog (Canis Lupus Familiaris), Canis Mortuus Familiaris is an exhibition of digital paintings displaying Jeremy Dower’s unique series of spectral hounds, delectably embracing themes of distortion, novelty and the anatomical grotesque.

Jeremy Dower has many years experience as an artist in the computer game, film, animation, and fashion industries. Fittingly, his works channels the same kind of anatomical distortions found in certain cartoon and video game characters. Jeremy graduated from the VCA painting department in 1996 and, along with nearly a decade spent in the electronic music scene in Melbourne, Tokyo and New York, has been involved in several international exhibitions including the ‘Pictopia’ show at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, in Berlin.

Canis Mortuus Familiaris will premier at Lamington Drive before touring to Panatom Gallery in Berlin (in conjunction with the Pictoplasma festival) and then to Bold Hype Gallery in New York.