A J Taylor’s work explores the relationship between abstraction and realism, reflecting both the complexity and simplicity of the natural world....
A J Taylor: On Surface
Tag Archives: Jan Murphy Gallery
Lara Merrett: Field work
In her latest body of paintings, Lara Merrett combines her social practice with a decades-long engagement with the material possibilities of colour field painting. ...
Paul Davies: Memory Lens
Paul Davies explores, with his characteristic painted and collaged aesthetic, images that capture his memory and perceptions as a resident of LA and, more recently, Queensland’s Sunshine Coast....
Natasha Bieniek: White Gold
After working on miniature paintings for over a decade, Natasha Bieniek’s latest series of landscape paintings, 'White Gold', explores a dramatic shift in scale, painting directly onto coated aluminium (Dibond)...
Monica Rohan: Disappearing Act
Meticulously painted vistas are slowly revealed behind swathes of patterned, vintage fabric. Hands slip between these makeshift curtains; seemingly pulling us towards the environment and gesturing that the show is about to start....
Michael Cook: Fake
Brisbane based artist of Bidjara heritage, Michael Cook chronicles an Indigenous couple with a white child navigating the Central Australian desert in a fictionalised reversal of his own childhood....
Fiona Hiscock: Parkland
Fiona Hiscock's latest body of work continues her artistic practice of depicting Australia's natural environment, particularly flora and fauna that is increasingly under threat by bushfire, drought and land clearing....
Jacqueline Hennessy: This is a love song
Jacqueline Hennessy's beautifully painted and emotive works pose as visual cues to understand the artist’s experience of being a woman....
Keith Burt: Motionless
Keith Burt’s paintings evoke a darkening mood, objects from his every day have a stark presence as still life, and his portraits possess the uncanny sense of friends and family. He is compelled to accurately paint what he sees, sometimes working quickly and loosely, but always...
Juz Kitson: The future is your ocean oyster
Juz Kitson's 'The future is your ocean oyster' brings together a series of talismanic wall sculptures, free-standing porcelain sculptures and framed relief works....
Celia Gullett: Changing Places
In ‘Changing Places’, Celia Gullet presents new works that refuse definition and clear description – thickly painted surfaces, conflux layers reduced to geometrical shapes, lines and block colours....
Marina Strocchi: New York, New Work
'The sheer mass and density of the buildings, the repetition of shapes, the walls of windows, sometimes reflecting, sometimes receding and always towering over the mere mortals who inhabit them,' says Marina Strocchi about NY and her works....