This ethereal collection of silver paintings launches Gallery 2, our new intimate exhibition space. With their reflective surfaces the paintings flip between the organic and the industrial, the abstract and the playfully anecdotal. Image: Andrew Browne O 2022, aluminium pigment, alkyd, acrylic, oil on linen, 92 x 64 cm in aluminium artist’s frame
Dan’s show was delayed once (covid), delayed again (gallery construction) then delayed a third time (gallery moving to another floor). In that time, almost two year’s worth of delays, the idea for the exhibition morphed from one thing to another until Dan came up with the high concept of a group show by a solo […]
This is the first major solo exhibition by 28-year-old, Ngengi’wumirri artist Kieren Karritpul who lives in Nauiyu Daly River, NT. In this exhibition Karritpul continues his investigation into his culture and the land around him. Karritpul speaks of being woven into the land, the place his ancestors have lived for generations. Karritpul uses the […]
A suite of new and ambitious Georgia Spain paintings, in her debut exhibition at Tolarno Galleries. Image: GEORGIA SPAIN Transit 2022, acrylic on canvas, 97 x 87 cm
Painting can be a forcefield, a place with edges, finitude—even if what plays out within its borders is a kind of absurd, stuttering chaos. For Brent Harris, painting is a place to frame and momentarily circumscribe shifting psychological states and philosophical questions that threaten to overwhelm us at times. This is why their forms are […]
A solo exhibition with hand-printed and embroidered linens, accompanied by a floorwork made from sherbert-filled straws. Food is the catalyst Elizabeth Willing uses to translate the ineffable body, to reflect on the performance of eating, and facilitate multisensory experiences. Image: Elizabeth Willing Necklace of birth scars 2021, linen, cotton, thread, acrylic paint, 110 x 105 […]
Part of the PHOTO 2022 international festival of photography exhibition program. Visit Danie Mellor redux exhibition online (April 2022) Listen to Danie Mellor interview on ABC RN The Drawing Room (11 May 2022) Read an interview with Danie Mellor in The Age (28 April 2022) Images have a powerful way of revealing connections between disparate histories and experiences. redux is an exhibition […]
Part of the Melbourne Design Week program, 17 – 27 March 2022, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria. A&A is industrial designer and Rigg Prize-winner Adam Goodrum and straw marquetry artisan Arthur Seigneur. Their latest collaboration is the Mother and Child cabinet, exploring the dual definitions of […]