A group exhibition exploring the surreal, cosmic and otherworldly through the eyes of eight artists. CONTACT Marguerite Brown: visualpursuits@gmail.com Continue reading
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GRIA SHEAD
GRIA SHEAD La Belle Epoque, Casinos and Cigars 10 NOVEMBER — 25 NOVEMBER 2016 Nanda Hobbs, Lvl 1, 66 King St, Sydney NSW 2000 Gria Shead has long practiced the art of poetic evocation in her sensitively rendered paintings and works on paper. This quality is further developed in her new exhibition La Belle Époque: … Continue reading
New Work – KIRRA JAMISON
Kirra Jamison 09 August – 27 August 2016 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane QLD One of the most well known aspects of Kirra Jamison’s work has long been her fearless use of colour. Whether in pastel palettes or bold hues, Jamison arranges colours in seemingly infinite ways on the canvas, with a rhythmic sensibility that keeps … Continue reading
Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Lithography from LANCASTER PRESS
Bavarian limestone, grease and water – these are the essential elements that alchemist of sorts Peter Lancaster has been using for 26 years to transfer imagery from stone to paper, through the magical process of lithography. Since 1990 Lancaster Press has operated as a small independent printmaking studio in Melbourne that specialises solely in the … Continue reading
Anything just to belong – ADAM NUDELMAN
ADAM NUDELMAN Anything Just to Belong NKN Gallery, Collins Place, 10 – 26 February, 2016. NKN Gallery of Melbourne & Nanda\Hobbs Contemporary is pleased to present a major exhibition by Australian artist Adam Nudelman, featuring a selection of sublime new paintings. With an artistic career spanning 25 years, Nudelman has exhibited widely and his works … Continue reading
Hendrick Goltzius – splendour and excess
“The fact – and this will seem to many unbelievable – that his paintings by no means equaled his superb engravings did a lot to damage his reputation.”[1] Constantijn Huygens, 1630 The term ‘virtuosity’ rarely fails to surface when discussing the graphic oeuvre of Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). Praised for his sheer technical brilliance, … Continue reading
Gravitas – GODWIN BRADBEER
Rendered predominantly in stark shades of black and white, Godwin Bradbeer’s isolated figures emerge out of the existential void. This recent body of work sees Bradbeer continue a life-long inquiry into often angst ridden questions that surround the human condition, experienced both collectively and individually and located on a metaphysical plane. His vessel for expression … Continue reading
Art and Chronic Pain – A Self Portrait by SOULA MANTALVANOS
In Art and Chronic Pain – A Self Portrait, artist Soula Mantalvanos shares her experience with chronic pain, which has been a debilitating presence in her life for almost seven years. Soula suffers from Pudendal Neuralgia, a painful nerve condition that developed following an accident where a fit ball that she was sitting on burst, … Continue reading
The Navigator – IAN PARRY
Like all things of beauty and rarity found in the natural world, Ian Parry’s paintings contain a kind of pure intensity that immediately transfixes the eye. His vibrant use of colour is wielded with genius mark-making skill that belies the complete confidence of this senior Australian artist. Parry’s paintings are dense and chromatically complex, comprised … Continue reading
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