2018
Lily Holmes - Halo: 11 - 21st October
Opening Thursday 11th October from 6pm
Lily Holmes is a painter and storyteller.
For her first solo exhibition, aloof feminine figures and their companions are adorned with religious iconography and arranged in scenes of quiet domesticity. Vibrant layers of painterly brush strokes are gradually worked into each sheet of canvas to create a voyeuristic, cinematic window into the recumbent folds of the artist’s own memory and fantasy.
Halo was born out of Holmes’ ongoing need to pictorialize her own desires, fears and insecurities. Within each work is a private narrative that unpacks and re-brands feelings of helplessness, anguish, and abandonment as she takes a vague stab at what it might be like to lead a holier life.
Lily Holmes is a painter and storyteller.
For her first solo exhibition, aloof feminine figures and their companions are adorned with religious iconography and arranged in scenes of quiet domesticity. Vibrant layers of painterly brush strokes are gradually worked into each sheet of canvas to create a voyeuristic, cinematic window into the recumbent folds of the artist’s own memory and fantasy.
Halo was born out of Holmes’ ongoing need to pictorialize her own desires, fears and insecurities. Within each work is a private narrative that unpacks and re-brands feelings of helplessness, anguish, and abandonment as she takes a vague stab at what it might be like to lead a holier life.
Tom Civil - Tangled Love: 25 Oct - 11th November
Opening Thursday 25th of October from 6pm
In this new body of work Tom’s Stick Folk monikers are used as bold paintings representing everyday moments of life and community. The paintings contain stories within stories; small occurrences, intimate moments, group discussions, playing and dancing, moving together and sitting alone and feelings of outrage, grief, boredom, happiness, indifference, love, exhilaration and more.
Placed alongside these paintings are a series of new large linocut and woodcut prints featuring everyday animals and plants, representations of a broader connection to the land and the city.
In this new body of work Tom’s Stick Folk monikers are used as bold paintings representing everyday moments of life and community. The paintings contain stories within stories; small occurrences, intimate moments, group discussions, playing and dancing, moving together and sitting alone and feelings of outrage, grief, boredom, happiness, indifference, love, exhilaration and more.
Placed alongside these paintings are a series of new large linocut and woodcut prints featuring everyday animals and plants, representations of a broader connection to the land and the city.
Katie Eraser and Emma Lipscombe - Tough Luck: 15 - 25th November
Opening Thursday 15th of November
Tough Luck is the latest exhibition from two contemporary artists, Melbourne based Katie Eraser and Perth based Emma Lipscombe. Consisting of a series of all new paintings, plus a collection of striking textiles created in partnership by the pair. This exhibition is an exploration of communication that crosses state lines, synergy and energy formed between distant creative forces and the confluence of work making when produced in collaboration, from afar. The connection needed to create a new show between two artists with 3400kms separating them, could be construed as ‘tough’ but the emphasis here instead focuses on the strength to withstand these adverse conditions. Here the artists find inspiration in the difficulty and rest heavy on the ‘luck’ inherent in the situation, which propels them to rally in the confidence that the partnership will ultimately be triumphant in bringing about great things.
Tough Luck is the latest exhibition from two contemporary artists, Melbourne based Katie Eraser and Perth based Emma Lipscombe. Consisting of a series of all new paintings, plus a collection of striking textiles created in partnership by the pair. This exhibition is an exploration of communication that crosses state lines, synergy and energy formed between distant creative forces and the confluence of work making when produced in collaboration, from afar. The connection needed to create a new show between two artists with 3400kms separating them, could be construed as ‘tough’ but the emphasis here instead focuses on the strength to withstand these adverse conditions. Here the artists find inspiration in the difficulty and rest heavy on the ‘luck’ inherent in the situation, which propels them to rally in the confidence that the partnership will ultimately be triumphant in bringing about great things.
Felicity Gordon - Return: 29 Nov - 16th December
Opening Thursday 29th November
“The first mouthful of each tree’s fruit holds the flavor of soil, the rain, the air and all of the glorious variables of the four seasons of a particular year.”
In Return Felicity Gordon responds to seasonal adaptations caused by a warming climate and our corporeal relationship with nature. A series of paintings and a site-specific installation charts the beauty of pumpkin plants as they morph from a food source to seed depository. The plants hover dry in suspension as a kind of eternal garden neither alive nor dead. They remind us of our close relationship with and dependence on the natural world.
The installation Still draws gallery visitors close to nature as it displays organisms, plants and organic matter glazed between sheets of glass. The work is a virtuous loop of naturally occurring cycles of growth, decomposition and renewal.
Inga Simpson, Mr Wigg, Hachette Australia, 2013
“The first mouthful of each tree’s fruit holds the flavor of soil, the rain, the air and all of the glorious variables of the four seasons of a particular year.”
In Return Felicity Gordon responds to seasonal adaptations caused by a warming climate and our corporeal relationship with nature. A series of paintings and a site-specific installation charts the beauty of pumpkin plants as they morph from a food source to seed depository. The plants hover dry in suspension as a kind of eternal garden neither alive nor dead. They remind us of our close relationship with and dependence on the natural world.
The installation Still draws gallery visitors close to nature as it displays organisms, plants and organic matter glazed between sheets of glass. The work is a virtuous loop of naturally occurring cycles of growth, decomposition and renewal.
Inga Simpson, Mr Wigg, Hachette Australia, 2013
Marito Rodriguez - And the distance kept going, through the cypress trees*: 18 - 23rd December
Collage paintings and assemblages that attempt to paste down landscapes of the artist’s distant self.
*19 The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
*19 The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
