Tag Archives: Melissa Pesa

Heath Franco: LIFE IS SEXY
In his examination of Western popular culture and its desires, Sydney artist Heath Franco asks the fundamental question, ‘What is sexy?’ The answer: ‘LIFE IS SEXY’ (2016-17), a single-channel video that reflects capital vices of lust, leisure, escapism, greed and power in the shadow of Trump’s...

Lottie Consalvo: In the Remembering
The ontology of performance, time and altered states of consciousness are explored in the oeuvre of artist Lottie Consalvo, who attempts to capture the transience of performance as materiality....

TARNANTHI
‘TARNANTHI’ presents over 40 commissioned pieces by artists and art centre collectives; inhabiting multiple spaces in the gallery, giving insight into the richly diverse practices from as far-east as the Torres Strait to the APY Lands northwest of South Australia and beyond....

McLean Edwards: Passport
McLean Edwards’ fluid brushwork is capable of transforming even the most ordinary subject into an object of contorted beauty. The raw yet soft transition of light juxtaposed with a carnivalesque colour palette are idiosyncratic of the artist’s painterly manner, reinforced by bold lines and the farouche...

Tom Polo: Emotional Patrol
Through the semantics of text, satire and a broadening of portraiture, Tom Polo’s paintings engage with the emotional characteristics of the human condition and disclose hidden, or inner, conversations....

Tjungunutja: from having come together
The exhibition includes over 130 paintings, rare cultural artefacts, historical ephemera and previously unseen photographs alongside compelling cinematography, offering a remarkable insight into the genesis of the Western Desert art movement....

A Screen of Flesh
Perhaps an allusion to the Shakespearean property of flesh, the latest exhibition at Sydney’s COMA gallery explores attitudes towards the human body as a physical object and organism, and the diverse personalities and lives dwelling within....

Nathan Beard
Nathan Beard is a Perth-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice is primarily engaged with culture, memory and biography, particularly through the prism of his diasporic Thai-Australian lineage. ...

Sarah Contos
Contos discusses her practice and latest body of work in the lead up to her solo exhibition at Sydney’s Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery; its concept laying dormant, hidden in the pages of her notebooks, until now....

Mark Whalen: Sketchbook
Known for his unique colour palette and elaborate, geometric precision, Whalen captures the peculiarity of human existence compressed into narratives of upended fantasy worlds....

Superposition of three types
Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor and Talia Linz, ‘Superposition of three types’ highlights the continuing effectiveness of colour and form in contemporary Australian art....
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