Cressida Campbell’s vast ANG show reveals the unique process that embodies her vision and her absorption in the time spent to compose each elegant, book -ended pair of images: the engraved, fresco like painted plywood block and its printed, paper mirror image.
Ruth Waller’s, Paintings ’21-’22 at Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra, present eloquent distllations of influence and innovation.
Innovation, material poetics, abstraction, Sydney Contemporary. 1.Djirrirra Wununmurra Yukuwa (earth pigments on engraved stringybark)
To experience the range and scope of art media and practices at Sydney Contemporary is salutary. A subset of that is the panopoly of ceramic genres and modalities on show.
Loved everything about this beautiful and comprehensive retrospective of Viv Binns’ art at MCA Sydney.
Spent a recent afternoon studying the art of three painters: Ben King at NASHA, Simon Blau at Gallery 9 and Colin Lanceley at the National Art School Gallery.
Burning Curiosity’ at Sturt Gallery is a beautifully callibrated show. Each ceramic artist creates unique, wood fueled, ‘kiln weather’ glazes from different elements: fused salt, by Sandy Lockwood, molten rock and ash by Steve Harrison and tin oxide and silver nitrate by Megan Patey.
In Craig Judd’s ‘the Snakes Hips’, presented by Damien Minton at Sheffer gallery, polychrome snakes of acrylic paint writhe from their tubes in Craig Judd’s charmed paintings.
Sculpture and philosophy converge in the spatial propositions of Margaret Roberts. Lodged in dialogues with other art, the specific dimensions of particular places and quotidian materialities, each set of installed templates telescopes situation and time.
Still photographic images conjure continuities of social connections: profound, intimate, historical, political.
Discovered this fantastic work. This ingenious “shard poem” rearranges ceramic history. On view now Michael Lett Gallery as part of the exhibition ‘the body and its outside’ 2 Jun — 3 Jul 2021.
The glint of a music box ballerina winds up the bling and Ebony Russel’s comedic and cathartic “splat” faces put the icing on disappointments.