Year: 2018
The Passengers
Peter Atkins’ new project is a series of small-scale paintings that relate to his Metro Tunnel public commission entitled RAILway for Melbourne’s City Square, installed along Swanston Street un til October 2019. The Passengers explores our collective social, cultural and personal narratives through the abstracted, obsolete designs of suburban train tickets issued between 1920 and the […]
La Razza: Quiet Noise
New mixed media works from Brook Andrew. Pictured: Orange 2019, oil pastel, acrylic paint, paper, glue, plywood and pencil on board, 140 x 140 cm
Sky Light Mind
Brendan Huntley’s new body of work, Sky Light Mind, is strongly influenced by, as Huntley puts it “the natural light and crazy vibrant colours of the West Coast” he experienced while based in San Francisco on a residency in 2017. “I see these works as a meditational expedition,” he says. “A journey, a trek… […]
Dawn Chorus
A series of new works in crystal, copper and brass wire in woven wire morphic forms. Image: Untitled A, copper and crystal vase, 55 x 32 x 32 cm
The Bottom Feeders
At Sydney Contemporary 2018, Tolarno Galleries presents a new series of paintings, etchings and sculpture from Ben Quilty. Pictured: The Biggest Bottom Feeder 2018 oil on linen 265 x 202 cm
The Landspace: [all the debils are here]
Danie Mellor presents his first solo exhibition at Tolarno Galleries. In this new sequence of works, Mellor reimagines the landscape as the landspace, and in doing so opens up a new way of seeing history, ownership and possession of country. “Reimagining the world as a landspace suggests we are in an enveloping environment, a […]
Strawberry Thief
Tolarno Galleries presents Elizabeth Willing’s solo exhibition, Strawberry Thief, at this year’s Melbourne Art Fair. The exhibition will include a wallpaper print, a series of collage prints, hand-carved wooden sculptures and Anxiolytic. This is a bottled and branded spirit and glasses that will form part of a cocktail performance in collaboration with Melbourne mixologist, Cennon Hanson. Image: Strawberry Thief […]
Invisible Stories: Meditations on Port Essington
In his first solo exhibition since 2012, Benjamin Armstrong will present a series of linocut prints relating to Mark McKenna’s 2016 book From the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories. View images Download the media release Read an interview with Benjamin Armstrong in Imprint Magazine Winter 2018 edition. Image: Embedded, 2018. Linocut, dye, ink, coloured pigment, iridescent […]
Spill
View images For his sixth exhibition at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne-based Andrew Browne presents new paintings and related charcoal drawings that extend his decades long interest in a landscape of phenomena – yet one alienated from the picturesque. Download the media release