Richard Larter
There’s no painter quite like Richard Larter (1929-2014). After emigrating from Britain with his wife Pat and young family in 1962 and settling in Luddenham on the semi-rural outskirts of Sydney, Larter had his first exhibition at Watters Gallery in 1965. Over the next decade, he became a renegade in the Australian art scene (represented […]
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Nicole Ellis
At first blush, there seems to be some kind of code to the arrangement of the small paper dots across the canvas of Nicole Ellis’s Confetti, 2006. Properly, “dots” might be an oversimplification here. Rather, these scraps – which Ellis salvaged from the streets in Rome – bear the marks of their manufacture in the array of […]
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Emma Beer
There it is, striated beneath the blocks of pink – irregular, in a way which feels permissive – a few glimpses of green ground. This ground, swung behind the pink, is elsewhere left visible: drawn across the canvas of laboured learning, 2021, as a thin veil which does more revealing than hiding, shifting with the […]
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Painting amongst other things
A group exhibition examining the ways in which contemporary painting might be encountered within an expanded field.
