Margaret Ackland remains the essential artist. Responding with calm, intelligent action to what her eye sees, Ackland paints remarkable pictures....
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Tag Archives: Stanley Street Gallery
Agus Wijaya: Tata Reka
'Tata Reka' explores “what resides once everyday noise recedes into the background – moments and reveries in the cycle of becoming and unbecoming,” says the artist....
Shaun Hayes: Trashed
Shaun Hayes humorously uses waste to build vessels of Western cultural heritage: the plastic bottle, takeaway container, coffee cup lid, toothbrush, cue tip; small thoughtless conveniences of our comfortable lives, thrown away – trashed....
Art in Isolation
'Art in Isolation' is a dynamic and vibrant selection of work from the artist’s studios and ad hoc home-studios that document the breadth of experience in such a pivotal time....
Shaelene Murray: Kin
The work of Shaelene Murray is grounded in concepts of feminism as well as childhood memories and the confines of familial and societal expectations....
Andjana Pachkova: Die Sehnsucht
The German term ‘Die Sehnsucht’ roughly translates to ‘intensely longing’, denoting a deep emotional state for which there is no English equivalent. Compounded from ‘das sehnen’ (yearning) and ‘das seichtum’ (lingering illness), it represents feelings about facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with...
Aesthetic Uncertainties
Independent curator Zara Collins presents new work from four Australian painters in the exhibition 'Aesthetic Uncertainties' – Madeleine Cruise, David Collins, Ondine Seabrook and Zuza Zochowski....
Deborah Marks: Liminality
Deborah Marks explores identity, fragility, strength and vulnerability in her paintings. She translates the experience of migrants and their dislocation and fragmentation from homelands and integration to the new....
Secrets, Saints and Shadows
Three of Australia’s leading printmakers, Mirabel FitzGerald, Denise Scholz-Wulfing and Bernhardine Mueller will have their work displayed at Stanley Street Gallery....
Denis Clarke: Force of Nature
Clarke's way of working involves both observation and experiment and as he describes - "madness and discipline"....
Shaelene Murray: A tracing of thread
A finalist in this year’s Wynne Prize, Murray’s work explores family histories, the make-believe, and notions of femininity....