Into the Mystic
Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings opened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on 12 June 2021 to incredible critical acclaim and fervent public interest. The escalating Delta crisis in Sydney led to the exhibition’s premature closure after just fourteen days, but during its brief but brilliant moment in the light, artists Katy […]
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Sam Field
I thought I saw Eden brings together a suite of paintings produced in the aftermath of Sam Field’s journey throughout Far North Queensland. Interrogating the act and impulse of travelling, Field contemplates the assumptions, projections, and mythologies that permeate our experiences of “othered” places. Embedded within the series is a reflection on innocence lost: the […]
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Adam Lee: World Sick Hermit
In World Sick Hermit, Adam Lee presents a suite of new paintings that reframe concepts of interpersonal and intergenerational connectedness whilst interrogating the hierarchy of outer and inner worlds. The body of work draws its title from a phrase coined by Lee’s daughter, who once announced a feeling of homesickness for the wider world. In […]
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Reuben Paterson
Reuben Paterson was fresh out of art school when he left Auckland for Aviz, France, in 1997, to participate in the esteemed Moët & Chandon Arts Fellowship. Living on the outskirts of Paris in a crumbling chateau, he cycled to the station at any opportunity to journey to the city and visit the museums and […]
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