Annika Koops
In Koops’s Double Binds #10, 2022, traces of oil paint are at once lyrical and jarringly inert. A creamy strip of what looks like fabric – maybe ribbon – drapes eternally over a frame of metallic blue curves, which work their way down the image plane like a racetrack seen from above, or like a worm from another […]
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Peter Hill’s Top Ten Picks from Sydney Contemporary 2022
Peter Schjeldahl, the great American art critic for The Village Voice, and now The New Yorker, once described the visceral experience of viewing the astonishing late works of Willem de Kooning at the Metropolitan. “The effect was like a plane taking off, when the acceleration presses you against the seat. The painting’s violent intelligence detonated […]
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Tagged ARC ONE Gallery, Bett Gallery, Carriageworks, Darren Knight Gallery, Egg & Dart, Fox Jensen Gallery, GAGPROJECTS, How Langsford, James Makin Gallery, MARS Gallery, Michael Bugelli Gallery, National Art School, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Contemporary, THIS IS NO FANTASY
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Amber Koroluk-Stephenson
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s paintings have always provoked the question of “where are we?,” with liquid boundaries between domestic and exterior domains, patchwork perspectives, and conspicuously constructed mises en scène. Throughout A Hopeful Mirage, however, a heightened emphasis on “where are we going?” emerges. The exhibition is a tragicomic meditation on the psychic inertia of a world in flux. Responding to […]
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Michaye Boulter
What informs your work? I’ve been painting for a long time now. I finished art school in my mid-twenties and more or less lived on Bruny Island until moving to Hobart about seven years ago. Sailing, fishing, family and painting have been my life since then. I paint about being on the water and living […]
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Georgia Morgan
While vessels hold, portals gesture ceaselessly to elsewhere. When we look at any ceramic vessels, we look at an outside, an exoskeleton. Morgan’s glazed exoskeletons themselves, though, direct their own gaze outwards, taking in iconographical detritus from a wide range of sources. The hollow vessel has eyes, here, and they look back out at us, […]
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Tagged Bett Gallery, Fermented Preserves, Georgia Morgan
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