Wayne Eager emerged in the art community in Melbourne in the 1980s. It was a time of risk taking in art, of not knowing the rules that you were breaking but rejecting the status quo. He was a founding member of the dynamic artist-run-exhibiting space, Roar Studios, in Fitzroy, Melbourne, the first such venture in Australia.
Wayne Eager’s work is absorbed with form, colour and texture. His method is based on the accretion of subsequent layers from which his paintings find their form.
Eager has spent much of his career living and working in the remote Central Australian Desert. His experience of the light and unique features of the Northern Territory landscape have permeated is work throughout the last 30 years.
In 2021, Eager was honoured with a 30-year survey exhibition, ‘Bitumen and Dirt’, at the Charles Darwin University Gallery, Darwin.
Wattle gouache on paper 56 x 76cm 
Orange Strategy acrylic on linen 115 x 169cm 
Mesopotamia Script (state 11) acrylic on linen 122 x 153cm