March 2019
Out and Back by Barbara Goldin
---Opening Reception: 6-8pm, 14 March---- Barbara Goldin takes inspiration from her experiences in the vast and varied Australian landscape in her new exhibition Out and Back. Based on the artist’s recent visits to the Pilbara, Karijini National Park and the Kimberley, the series reflects the subjective memories contained within place. Goldin captures the essence of her subject matter within the canvas, remaining faithful to its true nature whilst drawing forth the specificity of her own understandings through abstraction. Her quality…
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The First Element: Ignite by Neelum Nand
---Opening Reception: 6-8pm, 4 April---- Neelum Nand’s The First Element: Ignite is the first of her five exhibitions that explores the relationship between the physical and metaphysical world. The works on display are abstract-expressionist in style, converging on the element of fire. Attributed to its transformational and purifying powers, fire embodies hate, love, lust, passion, anger and creativity. The artist aspires to recover man’s lost innocence within the universe, uniting physical presence and emotional transcendence. Nand’s paintings make use of…
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A Piece of the Continent by Sharon Pincus Jacobson
Jacobson dedicates her series of paintings to Namibia, on the South Western Coast of Africa. Her emotional immersion within the Namibian environment has inspired Jacobson to evoke an atmosphere of heat, thorns, dust and timelessness in this series of paintings. Employing yellows, oranges, mauves, faded ochres, dramatic vistas and outstretched roads, Jacobson recreates the colours and textures of its unique landscape and people. Further accentuating this vibrant experience of the land, she sometimes incorporates collaged beads from Namibian jewellery to…
Find out more »Golden Trinity by Baez Bonorat
In this exhibition, Baez Bonorat presents a series of abstract landscape paintings, each united by the thread of colour, texture and composition that together resolve in what the artist defines as a Golden Trinity. This trinity connects to heighten the audience’s visual engagement with the art works as well as to create a tactile resonance through composition that is further enhanced by modest, sometimes dramatic use of colours. Baez applies this through employing acrylic and mixed media, along with the…
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Where the Wild Birds Are by Sobrane
Internationally acclaimed Broome based artist, Sobrane regularly holds exhibitions around Australia and overseas. Apart from her studio based works, she also works on large-scale murals and recently completed a 30-metre wall in Soriano Nel Cimino, as her third project on mural painting in Italy. In Where The Wild Birds Are, she features a series of mixed media artworks on canvas as a response to her passion for wildlife in Australia and around the globe, particularly fresh from her recent adventures…
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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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