Rod Holdaway
There is a personal philosophy underpinning my art practice. I aspire to see clearly the way that elements of form, colour, space and depth interact and to represent something of the human psyche in our time and place. An interest in social behaviour and psychological states can be seen in my drawings and paintings. I […]
Emily Floyd
Emily Floyd’s works are immediately inviting. Be it sculpture, print or public artwork, Floyd’s bright palette, expertly rendered geometric forms and the incorporation of text invite interaction. But while the works are accessible, they are never simple. Each is imbued with hours of research and a vast knowledge of topics ranging from alternative education, to […]
Gao Rong
Gao Rong takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary. In banal moments of the everyday she sees a deeper significance.
Max Berry – ‘The Inwardness of Place’
In his latest collection of work, Berry presents place as something shaped by a person’s movement and affective counters within it.
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Arthur Boyd: Agony and Ecstacy
The new exhibition, Arthur Boyd: agony and ecstasy, at the National Gallery of Australia Canberra is a major showcase of Boyd’s art including more than 100 works across diverse media: paintings, prints, drawings, ceramic tiles and sculptures, and tapestries. The focus is on Boyd as an intense poetic visionary who was capable of plumbing the depths […]
Louise Paramor: Emporium
Glen Eira City Council Gallery is housing an expansive retrospective exhibition, Emporium that will survey this diverse creative practice through the thematic concerns that have preoccupied Paramor.
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Firstdraft Gallery
Firstdraft – one of Sydney’s many successful artist-run, not for profit, gallery spaces – is currently divided into four gallery spaces. On exhibition are Barbara Knezevic, Kirra Jamison, Giselle Stanborough and Jai McKenzie. Each artist is using their space independently of one another and the result is four wonderful exhibitions of varying mediums. In gallery […]
Jane Gillings @ NG Art, Gallery
Come Closer (Now Go Away) is the latest solo exhibition by Jane Gillings at NG Art Gallery, Sydney. The work that forms this exhibition is the recycling of and engaging with – what some would call – hoarded waste. Gillings compulsively collects and, by her own admission, hoards before she reassembles by way of embracing and engaging […]
JON CATTAPAN @ SUTTON GALLERY
OVER THE LAST thirty years, Jon Cattapan has established a reputation as one of Australia’s most significant and prolific painters. In this new body of works at Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Viridian Eye, the artist extends his exploration of ‘Night Visions’ drawn from his experiences as a commissioned artist for the Australian War Memorial in Timor […]
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JULIAN HOOPER @ GALLERY 9
THIS EXHIBITION of paintings and works on paper by acclaimed New Zealand artist Julian Hooper, presents figures made up of incongruous elements like fish tails and fruit, reminiscent of Arcimboldo. Titled Golden Solvent, this is Julian Hooper’s second solo show at Gallery 9. Curator Victoria Lynn writes: “Hooper has compared them with figures from fashion […]
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WHAT @ GALLERY 9, SYDNEY
THE ARTIST known as what is one of the most enigmatic art identities in Sydney. MCA curator Glenn Barkley profiled what for us in 2008 and since then what‘s work has been acquired by several major collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. For this latest exhibition at Gallery 9, provocatively entitled Satanism, the artist is […]
