REVIEW | Michael Vale: Synchronicity and the theatre of the absurd
Michael Vale views colonialism as the elephant in the room when it comes to Australian history and Australian art. He observes that through a strange coincidence, or synchronicity, at the same time as the rise of the Gothic novel in Europe, the horrors imagined by the fiction writers were actually taking place in Australia through […]
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Michael Vale
Michael Vale’s paintings contain a melange of art historical references and symbols, from pipe-smoking dogs and skeletons, to surreal landscapes.
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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