PREVIEW: Salvatore Zofrea | Seven Days of Summer
As an Italian immigrant, who came to Australia as a young boy, Zofrea’s understanding and connection with the Australian landscape has been a lifelong journey. His paintings, drawings and prints chart the artist’s time spent in the bush between his home and studio in the Blue Mountains, and his studio in Seaforth, Sydney. Known for […]
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Australian Galleries at Sydney Contemporary
Drendel eschews a nostalgic view of rural life and the vivid experiences associated with his youth, recreating the low horizon line and flat plains of monotonous landscape, unrelieved by either natural landmarks or signs of activity. The relative absence of vertical structures in the local environment of farm blocks is referenced in Monument 2, 2024, […]
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Richard Goodwin
As we walk into the up-cycled meatworks where Richard Goodwin lives, the first impression is of a cabinet of curiosities splayed horizontal. On one table stands an intricate balsa wood model for a newly commissioned house, its elliptical roofs nestled upon each other like interlocked carapace. There are paintings with mechanical equipment jutting from their […]
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Philip Noakes
Noakes captures light with his hammer. He raises extraordinary three-dimensional objects from flat sheets of metal, and the shifting patterns of marks left by his hammer trap and direct the flow of light around his completed forms. The seductive material and its exquisite shapes are revealed by this flow of light, which our eyes eagerly […]
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Michael Snape
Michael Snape is probably best known as a sculptor. But he is, in fact, an artistic polymath – a painter, a writer, and an assiduous blogger, writing articles, reviews, poetry, and opinion pieces. His new exhibition Here at Australian Galleries, Sydney in September focusses on painting supported by some, mainly domestic-scaled, sculptures. One might expect […]
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Salvatore Zofrea
Zofrea understood quite early in his development that music could nourish his creativity. He is as inspired by composers and performers as he is by painters from the early Renaissance to the modern. The language of symphonies and operas — not notes on a page, but the intensity of the engagement of multiple sounds and […]
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William Kentridge
Cartography, topography, even choreography: so much of what William Kentridge’s work does is graph. Thinking about his work like this, with an emphasis on the kinds of knowledge and the kind of story made possible through different modes of writing, also calls attention to the hand that does all this sense-making. Printed matter, books, and the process […]
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Pearlescent Semblances, Perfect Parallels – Pippin Drysdale’s The Patterning of Light
Boasting more than 450 exhibitions both in Australia and internationally and having had over fifty solo exhibitions, Drysdale is revered as Australia’s most internationally successful ceramicist (McDonald, 2020). Despite her five-decade-long career, this is the artist’s first solo showing with Australian Galleries – and one that promises genuine delight. Drysdale’s notoriety is formidable; perhaps even […]
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Marina Strocchi
The points of intersection between skyscraper windows in Manhattan sunset III, 2020, are live; they ring with a vibrant, almost spiritual, blue. Between them, white spaces where the lives of others would be are subtly under-painted with this same blue – underpinned by its electric energy. The painting sees Manhattan from the swaying vantage point of a […]
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Kyoko Imazu
A feline figure looks us almost in the eye in Beetle Spotting, 2018. Offering this slant gaze at once curious and evasive, the cat’s face is captivating – their whiskers tremulous and sensitive against a “featureless” background. Refusing to offer either geographical or perspectival specificity, this washed background strikes against the intense and textured particularity of […]
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August Carpenter
Most of The Actions of Storms; sleep movements, 2021, is taken up by black space – the deep, uninterrupted darkness that monotypes can produce. About four fifths of the way up the panel, a horizon line hosts a set of silent, rectilinear forms, drawn into being gently as if through a mist. Below or in front […]
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David Frazer
The book Love Letter takes up the lyric mode of Nick Cave’s song of the same name, from the album No More Shall We Part. What, exactly, might it mean for visual art to partake of the lyric mode – a way of writing, and of reading, usually associated with poems in the first person, full of […]
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Jennifer Keeler-Milne
In Jennifer Keeler-Milne’s Autumn Leaf IV, 2020-21, a single lace-like leaf casts a shadow down the blank field of picture space through which it falls. Keeler-Milne’s ‘Autumn Leaf’ series pictures intricately-drawn leaves falling between one state of being and another: between fullness and emptiness, liveliness and silence, growth and decay. These illustrations were taken from leaves that […]
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Cameron Hayes
The scholar Thomas Jessen Adams, in an article for Overland, draws an apt line of connection between Cameron Hayes’s paintings and the open-ended dystopias of Breughel. Take the polyptych In the South Pole the explorers were so afraid of not having enough food for winter that they starved to death in summer, 2001-2, for example. Across the work’s four […]
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