New Australian Painting at Conny Dietzschold Gallery features a group of eight Australian artists whose art practices stem from a space in art history that has surprising relevancy and impeccable curation. The group show, with work by Lisa Andrew, Elizabeth Day, Faridah Cameron, Vicki Grace, Pollyxenia Joannou, Eveline Kotai, Joan Ross, and Homi Vesal, brings together eight different perspectives in regards to shape, colour and composition, three components that make up an integral part of the concept of painting. What unites them is their use of pigment, whether it is found, industrial, or unsupported, and their use of unorthodox materials to explore the three painting fundamentals: light, colour and matter. This exhibition explores a dialogue of art history that is poignant and alluring outside the pervasive conversation of paint and canvas ie. paint is not always involved in their art practice. The nature of materials is an important instrument to some of the exhibited artists, as well as the structure of surfaces that is capable of changing the perception of colour in the eye of the beholder. This show is not just about what painting does without paint, yet expands the definition of ‘painting’.
New Australian Painting opens Tuesday July 16, 6-8pm.
Conny Dietzschold Gallery
16 July to 24 August, 2013
1) Pollyxenia Joannou, The Skip, 2013, oil on linen (diptych), 280 x 140cm
2) Joan Ross, Staking the claim, still from The claiming of things, 2012, digital animation, 7 min 20 sec, edition of 10
