Previews
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Oceans From Here
‘Oceans From Here’, curated by Allison Holland, is the second iteration of a two-part exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography, and takes the element of water as its defining feature.
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Rob McHaffie: This is living
‘Laughter and crying are most likely the two best therapies I’ve found,’ says Rob McHaffie, whose ebullient paintings personify splendour in the ordinary.
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Halinka Orszulok
In her photo-real landscapes, Halinka Orszulok invokes the haunting wistfulness of night-time environments that often appear welcoming or banal during the day.
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Alicia Frankovich: Exoplanets
Alicia Frankovich’s new commission reflects her recent interest in microchimerism (the existence of the DNA of others within our own bodies) and microscopic imaging.
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Jenny Sages: Lest I forget
Jenny Sages's ‘Lest I forget’ relies on vulnerability, and this is further reflected in the physicality of the pieces on view – connecting to the nature of memory itself as being both intricately detailed and easily damaged.
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The Public Body .03
‘The Public Body .03’ redefines the body as fragmented, yet whole, unconscious yet evolving – an atomic level of materiality. Information about the physical form exists anew, stored as binary values inside our silently whirring hard drives.
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Amber Boardman: @jadefad: a social media feed in paint
Amber Boardman paints the endless desire to improve the body as promoted by Internet and social media culture through makeup, hair dye and spray tans – the transformative ‘paint’ women use in everyday life.
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Tony Albert: Visible
Tony Albert's ‘Visible’ includes a range of work that illustrates the breadth and rigour of his practice, from object-based assemblages to photography, painting, installation and video.
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Julia deVille: Wholeness and the Implicit Order
Julia deVille provides a contemporary take on the taxidermy art form as her jewel-encrusted, ethically sourced, stuffed animals debunk the glorification of the trophy-hunting culture.
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Kieran Butler: Queen Size
Kieran Butler celebrates their non-binary identity using the illusion, transformation and magic of drag and photography. They shared, ‘the foundation for my practice comes from Photography and understanding what its materiality is.
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Genevieve Felix Reynolds: Logic
The tightly-choreographed paintings of Sydney-based artist Genevieve Felix Reynolds hatch multi-layered dialogues between classicism and contemporaneity; materiality and digitisation.
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Ken Unsworth: Truly Madly
As I sit down with Ken Unsworth and sip coffee on his sun-speckled deck I feel I’ve hit the artworld jackpot. Unsworth’s home nestles Sydney Harbour, yet the white-haired former welder from Melbourne transmits a frugal nonchalance. His waterfront garden defiantly obscures the view with carefully planted native shrubs and...
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