Franck Gohier | #ozpoo
Franck Gohier’s latest body of work investigates the perceived patronising lens of the classic vintage comic books of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Works in the exhibition hark back to a time in early Pop Art when the commodification and objectification of all popular culture, including the female form, was accepted as the norm.
Mitchell Fine Art
11 November to 19 December 2020
Queensland
Franck Gohier, Summer, 2019, found objects and acrylic on board, 62 x 46.5cm. Courtesy the artist and Mitchell Fine Art
Bitumen & Dirt – Wayne Eager: 30 Years in the Territory
This survey exhibition of paintings and prints by prominent Alice Springs-based landscape artist Wayne Eager features 78 works from public and private collections around Australia, charting Eager’s career since he first arrived in the Northern Territory in 1990. We witness how early observations of the landscape have resulted in a large opus of figurative works in a gestural realist style, and Eager’s visual language becoming distinctly abstract.
Charles Darwin University Art Gallery
22 October 2020 to 20 February 2021
Northern Territory
Wayne Eager, Red Town (detail), 2018, oil on linen, 138 x 122.5cm. Photograph: Joyce Van Dyke. Courtesy the artist
The Nature of Things
‘The Nature of Things’ features three local artists – Michelle Gilks, Sarah Rye and Samantha Hughes – celebrate their shared passion for the environment and explore a deep affinity for the natural world through vibrant, bold, and multi layered artworks using paint, ceramics and digital media.
Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery
31 October to 15 November 2020
Western Australia
Samantha Hughes, Falling Girl, 2020, digital image. Courtesy the artist and Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery
Peta Kruger: Used
Adelaide-based artist and jeweller Peta Kruger redefines the waste matter of our material culture in her new body of needlepoint works. Otherwise discarded soft plastics are imbued with new value as Kruger responds to our current global plastic crisis.
JamFactory Adelaide
9 October to 22 November 2020
South Australia
Peta Kruger, Used (series), 2019-20, needlepoint found plastics on twist canvas, 58.5 x 74cm. Photograph: Sam Roberts
Replica
‘Replica’ is a solo exhibition by emerging contemporary photographer Micheila Petersfield. Petersfield’s practice centres on critiquing the idealised representation of women in popular media through transformative self-portraiture, destabilising the familiar aesthetics of popular feminine ideals through carefully choreographed narratives, image reconstruction and digital manipulation.
Despard Gallery
11 November to 12 December 2020
Tasmania
Micheila Petersfield, Masque, 2020, digital print on archival paper, 120 x 80cm. Courtesy the artist and Despard Gallery
