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'Poulet’s suite of recent paintings develop the

'Poulet’s suite of recent paintings develop the balancing game he has been playing throughout his career between abstraction and representation – especially, representation of the natural and built environment. There are visual parallels, certainly between Poulet’s work and early twentieth-century Constructivist paintings: shared interests in shapes and the changes they wring upon each other, in primary colour, and in the energetic potential of line. There are also in these new paintings, more than ever, moments where the natural world seems to seep though, pulling the work out of ‘pure’ abstraction' - on the website this evening, we delve into Peter Poulet's most recent body of work, currently exhibiting online with Rogue Pop-up Gallery.
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IMAGE: Untitled, 2021, acrylic on polyester, 80 x 60 cm, courtesy the artist and Rogue Pop-up Gallery

‘A lot of the work is in the preparation; the pa

‘A lot of the work is in the preparation; the painting is quite fast in comparison. I go out into nature and take photographs and produce smaller colour studies, often in the early morning light’ - Clifford How on conversation with Pippa Mott, on the website tonight to celebrate the opening of his new show with Arthouse Gallery. How’s work, so deeply engaged with the outdoors, is available online with Arthouse during Sydney’s lockdown.
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IMAGE: How painting on the Tarkine Coast, photograph by Eddy Delorie, courtesy Arthouse Gallery

Emerging Queensland artists Kyra Mancktelow and Dy

Emerging Queensland artists Kyra Mancktelow and Dylan Mooney investigate the long legacies of colonialism in Australia, in a new show at N.Smith Gallery. Available to view online during Sydney’s lockdown, the works in ‘Continuous / Unbroken Bonds’ touch on histories of forced removal and Assimilation, museum collection and repatriation with sensitivity and deep community engagement.
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IMAGES: 1. Kyra Mancktelow, Jundal & Giba, 2021, install shot at N.Smith Gallery, Sydney
2. Dylan Mooney, Away from Country II and Gulmari, 2021, install shot at N.Smith Gallery, Sydney

‘This latest body of work has been milling aroun

Suzanne Archer’s ‘We Are the Stars,’ at Nich

Suzanne Archer’s ‘We Are the Stars,’ at Nicholas Thompson Gallery, both engages and evades the visual and emotive tropes of the past year. In a catalogue essay for the exhibition, Andrew Gaynor writes that ‘a recent appearance in Archer’s paintings - somewhat inevitably - is the now-ubiquitous medical mask, but its inclusion is not for the health message; rather it is the structural form of the covering, its potential as an abstracted motif that excites the artist rather than any didactic lecture.’ The exhibition is available to view online at Nicholas Thompson’s website.
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IMAGES: 1. We are the Stars, 2019, oil on canvas, 201 x 300 cm.

2. Landscript, 2020, oil on canvas, 153 x 153 cm.

3. Glyph, 2020, oil on canvas, 90 x 122 cm, all courtesy Nicholas Thompson Gallery.

An ‘off-site’ collaboration between Timo Kube

An ‘off-site’ collaboration between Timo Kube (CHAUFFEUR, Sydney) and Michael Dell (Foenander, Auckland) runs until July 25 in Queenstown, NZ. This pairing propels the viewer into a space between abstraction and representation - or, even, between the apparent and the real, seeing and believing. Online viewing makes for much-needed imaginative breathing space for readers in locked-down parts of Australia tonight.
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IMAGE: Timo Kube, ‘Untitled Silk (in Black) #3,’ 2021, silk, cotton, shaped acrylic mirror on plywood, 30 x 21 x 2.6 cm, courtesy CHAUFFEUR, Sydney

Artist Profile warmly congratulates D-Mo, the winn

‘This is a body of work which metabolises both t

‘This is a body of work which metabolises both those things which are lost, and those which are sustained, working as a beacon of resilience. Vongpoothorn might be taken, in one sense, to be painting in and against ‘dark times,’ and the lockdown around the opening of her show with Martin Browne is a reminder of the context in which the works were created. Nevertheless, they will be there in the gallery, glowing’ - on the website tonight, we celebrate Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s show ‘Grounded and Glowing,’ which is available to view online now at Martin Browne. Check it out for some much-needed fortitude, and stay safe, readers.
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IMAGE: ‘Fire Sutra II,’ 2021, bamboo strip, gesso, acrylic on perforated canvas, 230 x 180 cm, courtesy Martin Browne Contemporary

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