Khaled Sabsabi: A Promise
Khaled Sabsabi’s ‘A Promise’ presents major works created over the past 20 years – large-scale and immersive new media installations as well as intimate paintings – that ruminate on the complex relationship between self and other.
‘Over the last four years, although I’ve been making art for a very long time, I’ve been a full-time practicing artist. I live and breath art making. It’s given me the time to reflect back on what I’ve produced not just from a timeline, but looking at style and philosophies; what I started out with and what drove me to where I am today. What does that mean? Something which is wider and broader that is more about a spiritual connection of being inclusive and finding common ground familiar to all peoples, of all cultures, of all times. These are the things I think about and empathise with. This is what drives us as a community, as human beings.’ – Khaled Sabsabi. Read an interview with the artist and Chloe Mandryk here.
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Until 2021
Sydney
Kilgour Prize 2020
Since 2006, the ‘Kilgour Prize’ has encouraged innovation within portrait and figurative painting. Chosen from more than 350 entries, 30 finalists from across Australia are exhibiting including this year’s winner, Mambo artist and art teacher Michael Bell with his whimsical double self-portrait titled Starting The after party (Two self-portraits) (2020).
Newcastle Art Gallery
Until 25 October 2020
New South wales
Ken Whisson
An assortment of people, animals, vehicles, boats, furniture, crockery and cutlery, Ken Whisson’s paintings are a lively description of our inner and external worlds. Acutely observed scenes are depicted alongside abstract forms and linework, utilising varied and at times skewed perspectives, conflating interior and exterior spaces. These sometimes-disorienting scenes do more than directly describe our world; they offer fresh and constantly surprising points of view. Included in this exhibition are Whisson’s ‘drawing(s) in paint’; works completed over several sittings, nurturing the artist’s spontaneity.
Niagara Galleries (Online)
29 September to 24 October 2020
Melbourne
Barry John: War toys
Barry John’s view on the world is one immersed in deep thought and a drive to explain that which he cannot understand.
The Old Auction House
1 to 19 October 2020
Victoria
Kim Shannon: A Stilled World
“It was impossible not to be affected by the drought and the bush fires and now the pandemic which has stopped everything in its tracks. With some of these pictures I have tried to pose a question, with others, it is simply a response to my small world in the peace and solitude of my own microcosm. Within a time of uncertainty, my hope is that these works might communicate some stillness and hope and an appreciation for the everyday.”
Strathnairn Arts Galleries
24 September to 15 November 2020
Australian Capital Territory
