JOHN YOUNG presents two projects: None Living Knows and The Shiva Paintings from two cycles of works - History Projects (2007-2022) and Abstract Paintings (2006-present) that have occupied him for the last 15 years. The History Projects, finding impetus in the history of violence and benevolence, also later developed a visual history of the Chinese in Australia since 1840. The Abstract Paintings offer a reassessment of technology's devastation to bodily skills.

Young incorporates elements of aesthetic theory and trans-cultural art history to consider the culture surrounding globalisation and migratory dislocation; the sociological impacts of technology; as well as philosophical notions of memory, resonance and melancholia.