July 2019
Santarupa by Wayan Kun Adnyana
In Santarupa, Balinese artist Wayan Kun Adnyana presents a series of contemporary narrative paintings centered on ancient iconography. He explores figures, forms, and storylines based on the ancient Yeh Pulu relief carvings, a set of primeval images found on a sacred river-bank in central Bali. The creation of these works involves three major approaches: reframing, recasting and globalising the Yeh Pulu reliefs. Thus, his work moves the ancient presence into contemporary global life. The relief carvings are mobilised, drawn and…
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Edge of the Id by Phillipa Butters and Paul Williams
Edge of the Id is the latest duo exhibition by Phillipa Butters and Paul Williams. Their art practices share intensities of abstraction and spontaneity in depicting the hidden signs within landscape and human forms. Butters’ works incorporate recurring abstract symbols to characterise fossil markings. By relating evolutionary history of the land to human journeys, Butters traces the impacts of markings on shaping individual consciousness. Of significance to Williams is the complex relationship between man and landscape that appears in ancient…
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Recasting by Brandt Lewis
Recasting is the latest solo exhibition by Brandt Lewis who further develops the themes of staging and narrative from his 2017 show at Thienny Lee Gallery, Staging Stills. Lewis continues his format of still-life painting to present a variety of stories incorporating manikins and toy animals. The narratives within these works stage retellings of art history, animals questioning their rightful place while mourning their losses, as well as various contexts of the artist's self-observation. Lewis cleverly ‘gets his hand’ into…
Find out more »October 2019
Patterns of Light by Erika Beck
---Opening Reception: 6-8pm, 17 October--- Patterns of Light is the 18th solo exhibition by multi-award-winning Sydney based artist Erika Beck. In a career spanning more than three decades, Beck has widely exhibited in Sydney, Mosman, Melbourne, Coffs Harbour, Adelaide as well as internationally in Barcelona and Zagreb. Her latest body of landscape work returns to her local environment where she lives, intensely inspired by the patterns formed through a contrast of light and shadow as well as a deep appreciation…
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Chocolate Milk and Cigarettes by Evelyna Helmer
---Opening Reception: 6-8pm, 7 November--- Award-winning artist Evelyna Helmer’s latest exhibition Chocolate Milk and Cigarettes showcases a series of still-life oil paintings and sculptures of everyday objects that encapsulate memory and nostalgia. Through incorporating familiar objects such as cigarettes, chocolate milk, bottles and the beachball or repurposing found objects such as 1940s French antique frames in her artwork, Helmer explores the messages and narratives that lie beneath the surface of these objects. Drawing upon Semiotics and influences from Pop Art,…
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Inside Out by Jenny Lavender
---Opening Reception: 6-8pm, Thursday 6 February--- Viewing Jenny Lavender’s abstract paintings on X-ray film is a unique and original experience. In Inside Out, Lavender allows the transparent surface of the film to dictate the composition of ...flow and density, form and colour... engaging both the mind and the heart in equal measure. “This exhibition of works on X-ray film has proved to be an exciting voyage of discovery for me.” – Jenny Lavender To be opened by celebrated multi-award-winning artist…
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