Michael McHugh
For Sydney-based, Auckland-born artist Michael McHugh his colourful paintings are informed by the reordering of plant form DNA; he undertakes extensive research in the field before following with experimental drawings and collage. Here is where the imagination kicks in, the artist commenting that, though there are certain structures audiences may recognise, there will always be […]
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Savanhdary Vongpoothorn
Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s iterative artistic practice is steeped in rich materiality and symbolism. Her detailed intricate works traverse landscape and spirituality, as well as her experiences as a Lao-Australian. For Vongpoothorn, who grew up in Campbelltown, her solo exhibition Aflame at Campbelltown Arts Centre, “feels like going full circle.” The ambitious scale of Aflame deepens Savanhdary […]
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Neil Frazer
Sea/Sky is named accordingly, with many of his exhibited works blurring the distinction between the sea and the sky, leaving his viewers questioning where does one end and the other begin. The sky in works such as Only Ocean, 2022, Rolling Blue, 2022, and Cloud Catcher, 2023, seems to mimic the ocean below, wisps of […]
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Guan Wei
It may not seem obvious that paintings – produced by the artist’s hand, and using his instantly-recognisable personal vocabulary of symbols and characters, and displayed at one of our most prominent commercial galleries – would be a medium particularly suited for working through the state of digital image production and circulation today. Guan Wei’s Interface proves, then, […]
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Michael Vale
In PegLeg’s Ghost, 2021, three figures appear with bundles of cloth perching improbably on their heads. Neck-ache and gravitational dynamics aside, the nestling of lively objects into these happenstance headpieces places the picture firmly within the realm of the absurd. From two seated figures emerge small, vertical smoking structures (chimneys?), while the garb of the […]
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Kevin Chin
The success of Kevin Chin’s sellout first show with Martin Browne Contemporary, in 2019, was widely attributed to his of-the-moment impulse for political painting. His work, which has long examined the entanglement of place, power, and personhood, clearly did respond to the cues of the minute: to climate change, to diaspora and the treatment of […]
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