DAGMAR CYRULLA Moments 10 – 29 September, 2016 Wagner Contemporary, Hampden St, Paddington NSW In this new body of work Dagmar Cyrulla continues her ongoing exploration into the private lives of individuals played out behind closed doors. Cyrulla’s anonymous female figures take centre stage in these artfully constructed mise-en-scènes, and drive the ambiguous narratives that … Continue reading
Catalogue essay for Rebecca Hastings’ solo exhibition The Other Mother, 25th November – 19th December, Flinders Lane Gallery, 137 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC Australia. It is difficult for those of us who haven’t experienced motherhood to understand the complexity of the emotions it engenders. Exhaustion and sleep deprivation go hand-in-hand with profound, selfless love and … Continue reading
Colour Without a Name, the latest exhibition by Eolo Paul Bottaro presents an enigmatic series of paintings inspired by the creative contemporaries, urban locales, and historical artworks that have lodged in the artist’s prolific imagination. The cryptic title of this exhibition, which evokes ideas surrounding perception and the limits of understanding, is an appropriate one … Continue reading
In memory of one of the greats of Australian painting who passed away earlier this week, Jeffrey Smart. Despite Modernism’s challenge to representational imagery, and the subsequent Death of Painting discourse which questioned the relevance of painting within the contemporary art spectrum, Smart remained true to his chosen genre and medium and created some of the most iconic … Continue reading
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