“These new works present a layering of motifs that have populated my compositions for some decades, stimulating configurations that reveal new meanings for both myself and the viewer,” says Harris. Brent Harris’ minimal-line paintings present as lucid dreamscapes, incorporating both abstract and figurative elements to surreal and disquieting ends. Igniting the imagination with their playful […]
Bell makes his painting debut in his fifth solo exhibition with one monumental work on 75 ply panels arranged in a 5 x 15 formation, overall size 2.8 x 11.4 metres. Batavia, an Allegory of Good and Bad Government, After Lorenzetti is a grand history painting executed in a free and vigorous cartoon-like style. Installed […]
Winner of the 2021 Sir John Sulman Prize, Georgia Spain, makes her debut in the medium of sculpture, bringing together paintings alongside sculptural assemblages. Embracing ambiguity, humour and material transformation, Spain’s surreal, semi-figurative sculptures look as though they might have just stepped out of the vigorously expressive canvases that surround them.
‘Built Form’ is a love letter to my adoptive home town of Melbourne, in particular the gloriously manic Sydney Road, an area we’ve lived in now for 25 years. Peter Atkins Featured in the exhibition is Atkins work, Carpark Column, Melbourne 2024, a miniature replica of the Y-shaped concrete pillars supporting Peter McIntyre’s architecturally significant 1960s Parkade […]
I have always been interested in biology – cellular and bulbous forms and plants, especially flowers. In this new body of work, I am returning to the flower-form in continuing my lifelong exploration of magnifying things to the point of monstrosity. It follows from my previous bodies of works, ‘Colony’ and then ‘Colonies’ but unlike […]
Breaking away from the conventional notion of cakes as purely edible treats, this exhibition pushes the boundaries of creativity and challenges the traditional definition of sculpture. Displaying daring cakes designed not to be devoured but to be viewed (and collected) as magical, and innovative works of art.
The labyrinth, a site of mystery, confusion, even desire, is ultimately a challenge to either traverse or experience inwardly Together, Andrew Browne’s new paintings have a puzzling quality – their labyrinth tangles might function as a metaphor for life’s journey, complete with travails, confusion, disorientation, but also moments of revelation. Rendered in an immaculate photo-derived […]
The Kissing Cabinet is an exhibition of a new work by A&A (Adam and Arthur). It is the first of a series that epitomises A&A’s exploration of sculptural forms that intentionally blur the boundaries between art, craftsmanship, and design. The cabinet is visually captivating, standing tall with sinuous, curvy shapes and a bold colour palette […]
This exhibition expands on Gebhardt’s recent large-scale lightboxes from the same series installed along the Birrarung (Yarra River) for PHOTO 24. Notably, the work ‘Wallaby’, presented in this exhibition, also won the prestigious William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize in 2022. “These works interweave X-ray technology with elements including satellite and long exposure photography of […]
For the 2024 Melbourne Art Fair, Yunupinju has made a series of Gurtha or depictions of the fires lit at the end of the dry season to burn off dead growth. As with Mawurndjul’s ‘Nawarramulmul’, we might say that this fire will briefly flare up and then die. We might even see the work as an allegory of […]
Five distinct voices, but they share a quality found in the most special art, where the works exist in excess of themselves, overflowing with feelings, ideas, stories and desires. Yet the right to this aesthetic intensity for women was never a historical given. As art critic Jennifer Higgie makes clear in The Mirror and the Palette, […]