Hooper's painting process is an open ended one that gives form to an abstracted mode of figuration....
Julian Hooper
Tag Archives: Gallery 9
Peter Alwast: 1, 2, 3
At the heart of Alwast’s recent works are ideas related to translation and the interface between virtual tendencies in the material practice of painting and painterly conventions in media practices....
Suzie Idiens: All things being equal
Black is the constant element in ‘All things being equal’, an exhibition of new monochromatic work by Suzie Idiens. In her hands black is not simply a colour; it is a substance – and a variable one at that....
Contemporary Painting
‘Contemporary Painting’ sees Gallery 9 fulfil its original intention to exhibit Sydney and overseas-based artists in Melbourne....
Jelena Telecki: Roland’s mother
Encapsulation and preservation are the keys to understanding Jelena Telecki’s expressive oil paintings featured in her latest series, ‘Roland’s Mother’, on exhibition at Sydney’s Gallery 9....
Matthew Hopkins: Bated Breath
‘Bated Breath’ implies a sense of anxiety or suspense for an occurrence which may be anticipated but not necessarily understood in advance. Hopkins use of this idiom to overarch his latest body of work relates to the range of unfamiliar, unexplained and mystical phenomena depicted, and...