September 2019
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
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 of motif and space. Beck…
Find out more »November 2019
Chocolate Milk and Cigarettes by Evelyna Helmer
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, Helmer meticulously constructs the fine…
Find out more »Vault of Asia 2019
The Vault of Asia 2019 exhibition hosts a wide range of artworks celebrating Asian heritage, including twentieth-century Buddhist sculptures and more recent collections from modern-day artists including Dapeng Liu (Archibald Prize Finalist), Sung Hee Ahn, Wayan Kun Adnyana and others. Liu explores the Chinese and Western approaches to art in the development of his own distinctive style that blends the essence of both traditions, evidenced in his series of figurative and landscape works. Through her reflective paintings, Ahn conveys the…
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