Year: 2021
Pictures for Thinking
Pictures for Thinking has a wide breath of subjects: light, body, history, time, and measurement. Combinations of these subjects are used to elicit insights or to raise questions. In Bones III (pictured) penetrating light becomes the source illuminating the shared structures of our varied bodies. The making of these artworks is akin to a chemical […]
seeing time
seeing time is Brook Andrew‘s new body of work reflecting on ‘time’ and how one perceives and hopes to either manipulate or fall into ‘time’ These paintings were created during 2021 when the artist was focusing on alternative visions of not only time but how the world is shifting into what it means to decolonise, or to a […]
Creed
Sofitel Melbourne on Collins Summer Salon Show Sofi’s Lounge, Level 1 25 Collins Street Melbourne 3000 With thanks to Global Art Projects Image: Tim Johnson Thredbo Valley 2021, acrylic on linen, 183 x 244 cm
A History of Images
Danie Mellor‘s new suite of paintings A History of Images provide an intimate glimpse into a pictorial past, a collection of experiences that lie in archival memory beyond our tangible reach. Image: Danie Mellor Promises 2021, acrylic on board with gesso and iridescent wash, 40.5 x 30.4 cm
The Stations 2021
View online Brent Harris is well known for haunting imagery that drifts between abstraction and figuration. For more than four decades, the artist has engaged in a sustained investigation into the human condition, producing paintings, prints and drawings that address universal themes such as intimacy, desire, spirituality, sexuality and mortality. More than thirty years ago, […]
Bloom Lab
View online Caroline Rothwell’s Bloom Lab evolves from her recent digital project Infinite Herbarium. Infinite Herbarium launched concurrently at Museum of Contemporary Art as part of The National 2021: New Australian Art (26 March – 22 August 2021) and at The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney (26 March – 31 August 2021). Made in collaboration with Google Creative Lab in Sydney, Infinite Herbarium, is a series of […]
The Beach
A body of work by Ben Quilty made in the lead up to the last American Presidential election, and then continued through recent pandemic times and lockdown. During that time, he was given a book by the American Realist painter, George Bellows, and it has not left his studio since. Bellow’s paintings of men boxing illegally […]
Shoegazer 2.0
There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in – Leonard Cohen In 2020, Melbourne artist Andrew Browne spent the long COVID-19 lockdown developing Shoegazer, a series of drawings premiering online in August 2020. A playful allusion to Shoegaze, a 1990s subgenre of indie rock, the title refers more to subjects and prompts […]
Bill Henson
A new collection of previously unseen important Bill Henson photographs. Read more in The Age (26 June 2021). Image: BILL HENSON Untitled JPC SH173 N14 2001-2021, archival inkjet pigment print, 127 x 180 cm (paper size), edition of 5 + 2 AP