Restless Nature March 28 – April 24, 2017 Elizabeth Banfield, Eolo Paul Bottaro, Kerrie Cleverdon, Kyoko Imazu, Adam Nudelman, Bronwyn Rees, John Sheehan, Sophia Szilagyi Collins Place Gallery Shop 19 Collins Place, 45 Collins St, Melbourne VIC This exhibition brings together the work of eight contemporary Australian artists who each explore differing interpretations of the natural … Continue reading
Catalogue essay for Sophia Szilagyi’s exhibition drifting back, 9th October – 1st November 2015, Port Jackson Press Australia “The horizon is not a straight line, but a segment of a great arc.” – Hiroshi Sugimoto This fragmented arc has long been present in the digital prints of Sophia Szilagyi. Contained by the edges of the picture plane, occasionally … Continue reading
Sophia Szilagyi brings us a world consumed by furious waves and tumultuous skies in her new exhibition inner landscapes. Inventing land, sky and seascapes of elemental potency her work arouses a strong emotional response in the viewer, a quality that has seen the artist recognized as a contemporary romantic. Yet delve beyond the initial emotional … Continue reading
This enchanting body of work by Sophia Szilagyi was exhibited in 2007. Back then I assisted with the exhibition at Port Jackson Press Australia, and wrote this piece which was published in Imprint Vol. 42, No. 1, Autumn, 2007, p. 12. Dreams are rarely remembered whole. We might string them together as snatches of images and emotions … Continue reading
In 2009 Sophia Szilagyi created a memorable exhibition titled ‘Darkness Visible’. Drawing heavily on photographic sources, Szilagyi’s masterful manipulations within the medium of digital printmaking turn reality on its head – creating works that are as unnerving and unsettling as they are seductive. Here is the catalogue essay I wrote for her show. There is … Continue reading
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