Dirk Yates’s painting depicts an ordinary share-house scene in inner-city Brisbane: two seated figures at the edges of the image converse across a table, while a third is sketched out in the centre, reclining on a sofa. Begun in 2000 during his visual arts studies, the incomplete work is a reproduction of a large photographic print using a 2-millimetre grid of individually painted squares. On the bottom right, a pixelated floor plan gives clues to
