'Evidence and The Visible' surveys the arts practice of Catherine Rogers, whose photographs are marked by curiosity, humour, erudition, and strong aesthetic motivations....
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Out of Place
In time with shifting notions and understandings of place and belonging, ‘Out of Place’ explores how contemporary artworks can embody, transpose and reconfigure a sense of locality in a globalised world....
James Rogers: Tunnelvision
With a lifelong passion for surfing and the sea, James Rogers’ work engages with the rhythms and building blocks of life, reflecting on gravity, on organic structure, on movement and pattern....
Incommensurable: Photomedia in the era of globalisation
The world has seen a rapid increase in globalisation since the 1990s, and with this has come heightened flow of capital, ideas and culture between nation-states. This shift has fed into all aspects of life; increased air travel, shifting means of bi-lateral exchange, new forms of...
Robert Boynes: Modern Times
Robert Boynes draws inspiration from contemporary photographs, his own and from other sources, and interprets the effects that technology, fast-paced living, transience, displacement, public surveillance, war and climate change have on society....
Elisabeth Cummings: Interior Landscapes
At 81, Elizabeth Cummings quietly quashes the perception that an artist’s work weakens with age. She’s at the peak of her career yet is entirely unfazed by this swelling esteem. The artist simply loves – and has always loved – to paint....
Charlie Sheard
For thirty-five years the work of Sydney-based artist Charlie Sheard has developed into a language of pure lyrical abstraction. Curated by Terence Maloon, this survey exhibition showcases the artist’s work over the last ten years....
Birth of the Cool
'Birth of the Cool' is a selection of major works by four painters: David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Michael Johnson and Dick Watkins. It surveys the decade between 1963 and 1973. ...
Your Friend the Enemy: An artist odyssey to Gallipoli
In April last year I travelled to Gallipoli with a group of artists from Australia and New Zealand, following in Lambert’s footsteps. The landscape was still strikingly beautiful, even though its most severe features had mellowed over time. The Sphinx, for instance, which appears as a...
COLOUR MUSIC
‘COLOUR MUSIC’ brings together the work of visual artists who speculate on connections between pictorial form and pitch, harmony, movement and musical notation. A core of historical works by Roy de Maistre, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Jozef Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski and Frank Hinder provides the framework for contemporary artists...
Roy Jackson: Retrospective 1963-2013
Roy Jackson’s early days coincided with the impact of American abstract expressionism in Australia, but unusually for an artist of his generation he was more affected by Europeans such as Dubuffet, Klee and the Cobra painters, and by Australians Ian Fairweather and Tony Tuckson....
eX de Medici: Cold Blooded
eX de Medici seduces viewers with stunning technical virtuosity, yet on closer inspection, the work can shock and confront....