30 Years of Arthouse
In late 2024, Arthouse Gallery celebrates thirty years at its McLachlan Avenue, Rushcutters Bay, address but the concept for Arthouse—which originally held the name Arthouse: Art for the People—was born in a corner terrace house in Paddington thirty-one years ago. The terrace belonged to Ali Yeldham’s mother and had been hastily vacated by a florist […]
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Arthouse Gallery at Sydney Contemporary
The title of Joshua Yeldham’s exhibition, Broken Head, comes from a moment of tragedy. After labouring for months on a large ceramic head, a moment of inattention saw Yeldham’s work fall and break into pieces on his studio floor. It is the kind of accident which would usually signal the end to an artwork. “I […]
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Emma Walker
Emma Walker’s paintings have the rare quality of stirring feelings of vague recollection within the subliminal mind.
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Naomi Hobson
A Great-Grandchild caressing the hands of her Great-Grandmother, reveals a life journey of profound strength and resistance to the cruelty and burden of colonial history, a burden carried by generations and scarred on their bodies. As a Great-Grandchild traces and massages the welts and legacy of colonial cruelty on her Great Grandmother’s tiny frame and […]
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Leah Fraser: The Thin Places
Leah Fraser is enchanted by the universal psyche that has connected civilisations, both ancient and contemporary, throughout history. “It’s so interesting that as humans we have these stories that are parallel to one another, it reflects our way of explaining the world and nature and science, before there were words for those things.” Charged with […]
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Clifford How
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent border control measures have abruptly severed Tasmania’s connection to the mainland, temporarily suspending that sense of not-so-far-awayness. With our parks now closed to day walkers and campers, your unpeopled landscapes seem more relevant now than ever. You can feel like the only person on earth in Tassie. This cut-off has […]
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Danelle Bergstrom
Innately fuelled by emotional response, whether a portrait or landscape, Bergstrom’s work is always a fusion between an empathic approach to the environment and the artist’s own emotional turmoil. It should immediately be noted that there is no small talk with Bergstrom, who steps straight out with her heart on her sleeve. Painting with a […]
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Jo Bertini
The American Southwest, as it exists within the white settler-colonist imagination, is loaded with complex and often contradictory narratives. Its low population density, heat, presumed barrenness, and sheer expanse belie the reality of complex ecologies, topographies, weather systems, and flourishing ancient and modern cultures. Jo Bertini has been courting these contradictions for several decades now, […]
Lauren O’Connor
Lauren O’Connor’s Twin Falls (Wodi Wodi Country), 2022, is tremulous: energetic, almost rapturous movements of the paintbrush across the canvas capture the vibratory energy of the landmark in the work’s title. The vertical logic of the painting is punctuated by occasional horizontal movements – both surprising and totally inevitable – as a deep, beating red emanates […]
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Naomi Hobson: Adolescent Wonderland
In Girlfriends, 2022, two young women stand shoulder-to-shoulder on a track running through a field of lush vegetation. They gaze directly into the camera. Their even eye levels pierce through the print paper, operating as the puncturing moment of affective connection between the viewer and the subjects of the image. Under the brims of wide sun hats, […]
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Amelia Lynch
Ceramicist Amelia Lynch is based on the New South Wales Central Coast – a quotidian detail at first blush, perhaps, but one which extends beyond the realm of biographical “fact” and into more explanatory territory. Her most recent body of work, showing this May with Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, reflects on her phenomenological and emotional relationships […]
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Emma Walker
As a girl, I was fascinated by my mother’s hands. I would trace their veins and tendons with my fingertips, following them like roads on a map. I was captivated by their grace and how she used them while speaking, to provide emphasis and give visual form to her words. A few hours before her […]
Clifford How: Takayna – The End of the World
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent border control measures have abruptly severed Tasmania’s connection to the mainland, temporarily suspending that sense of not-so-far-awayness. With our parks now closed to day walkers and campers, your unpeopled landscapes seem more relevant now than ever. You can feel like the only person on earth in Tassie. This cut-off has […]
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Jo Bertini
After nearly three decades of traversing, contemplating and capturing desert landscapes throughout Australia and across the world, Jo Bertini found a true connection to the desert of New Mexico, where she now lives and works. In this new suite of paintings, entitled ‘Songs of Dry Hills’, Bertini takes her desert home of New Mexico as […]
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Nicole Kelly
Certainly, a sense of wonder permeates many of these works. Pliable oils twist across the canvas, casting a glow of enchantment over the landscapes with which Kelly engages. Where the sun beats, for instance, runs blue-green tones down the descending face of a hill towards the viewer, their diagonal paths melting into a pool of warm affect […]
Clifford How
Clifford How’s ‘Antipodean Light’ invites viewers on a solitary traverse across Tasmania’s north-western alpine wilds.
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