Tag Archives: Utopia Art Sydney

Christopher Hodges: Balance

28 August 2014 | Art Almanac

Many of Christopher Hodges’ latest works threaten to fall. They tilt precariously into space. And yet, their steel forms are perfectly poised over bases that are not simply a support, but crucial to the work as a whole....

Yukultji Napangati

29 May 2014 | Art Almanac

Yukultji Napangati is a rising star of the Papunya Tula Artists. She first came to the notice of a wider audience through her inclusion in the 2005 ‘Primavera’ exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art....

John R. Walker: The End of All Our Exploring

28 March 2014 | Art Almanac

In October 2013, Walker travelled by car from Braidwood to Broken Hill and beyond, documenting the new landscapes he encountered in gouache on paper....

CLAY

30 January 2014 | Art Almanac

In this exhibition, clay forms transcend their functional potential. What makes a form beautiful, powerful or good? For the ancient Greeks it was proportion, harmony and order. For the Japanese it is wabi-sabi – a balance between simplicity and complexity, restraint and spontaneity, perfection and imperfection,...

Kylie Stillman: The Perversity of Purpose

29 July 2013 | Art Almanac

This exhibition sees an evolution of Stillman’s sculptural practice, which for the past ten years has involved repurposing domestic and commercial items to create objects and installations....

Papunya Tula Artists: Painting Now

28 June 2013 | Art Almanac

Utopia Art Sydney is celebrating its 25th year of representing Papunya Tula artists with an exhibition showcasing the continuing strength of some of Australia’s leading painters who play crucial roles in the story of Australian art....

Peter Maloney: Radar & Other Colours

30 April 2013 | Art Almanac

Maloney works with a fusion of vibrant and electric colours, line and shapes to create paintings with a dialogue of layers that hum with energy....

Angus Nivison: Letters Home

26 March 2013 | Art Almanac

Nivison’s latest paintings move from familiar pale creams and greys to new vivid purples, pinks and blues....

Community IV: Celebrating 40 Years of Papunya Tula artists

27 November 2012 | Art Almanac

In 1971 a mural was painted by a group of senior men on the blank wall of the school building at Papunya, a small aboriginal community west of Alice Springs. This was the beginning of a painting movement that transformed the Australian art world....

Interconnected

2 July 2012 | Art Almanac

To coincide with the 18th Biennale of Sydney, ‘all our relations’, Utopia Art Sydney presents a diverse selection of works by artists from the gallery’s immediate and extended ‘family’ – David Aspden, Helen Eager, Craigie Horsfield, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Makinti Napanangka, and George Tjungurrayi....