Toxic Beauty
Abstraction has long delighted artists with its unexpected outcomes, rather than handsome results. Practitioner Michael Muruste revels in its uncertainties, unconstrained to rigid doctrines. In his latest exhibition at Burnie Regional Gallery, the works are anything but predictable. Muruste describes his works as abstract expressions of a particular moment or experience, rather than a pictorial representation of a place. With an emphasis on the process rather than the end result, the works are an honest ode to the long tradition of Abstraction.
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, TAS
16 May – 12 July
www.burniearts.net/art-gallery
Michael Muruste, Untitled 6, 2015, acrylic on paper,
120 x 96cm
Courtesy the artist and the Burnie Regional Gallery
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