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Yarra Bend Gallery

Que des femmes/Only women

Melbourne virtual satellite 'The home show'

Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery

September 22 - 19 November

Curated by Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton

International curator Billy Gruner

Bienniale Curator Roland Orepuk

Rose Moxham (qld), Marlene Sarroff (nsw), Suzan Shutan (us), Louise Gresswell
Irene Barberis, Jennifer Joseph, Wilma Tabacco, Louise Blyton, Karen Schifano (us)
Anna Caione, Emma Langridge, Suzie Idiens (nsw), Susan Buret (nsw)
Bogumila Strojna (fr), Danielle Lescot (fr), Connie Goldman (us), Sarah Robson (nsw)
Munira Naqui (us), Wendy Kelly, Terri Brooks

Melbourne is one of the most locked down cities in the world due to Covid-19. When Billy Gruner invited Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton to host the 6th international biennale of non objective art the artists hatched a plan. ‘The Home Show’ is a virtual group exhibition of twenty leading women abstract artists.

Exterior placement:

Anna Caione, La Mamma Disperso, 2020,

mixed media, acrylic paint, 40 x 12 cm.

Terri Brooks, White Paint, 2021,

oil on paper, 27 x 20 x 12 cm.

Marlene Sarroff, Equilibrium 2, Equilibrium series, 2014,

industrial rubber, wood, 25 x 30 cm.

Bogumila Strojna, Cube, 2018,
epoxy on aluminium 24 x 24 x .3 cm.

Rose Moxham, Pink Cathedral, 2020,

oil and wax on wood, 20 x 14 cm

Louise Gresswell, Fractured (blue edge), 2018,

oil on board, 36 x 27.5 cm.

Emma Langridge, Disrupt III, 2020,

enamel / acrylic on wood, 29 x 21 cm.

Irene Barberis, Assemble Series # 2 Sol Lewitt Studio, 2019,

164 x 22 cm.

Louise Blyton, X, 2021,

acrylic on linen on wood, 31 x 31 cm.

Connie Goldman, Phasis III, 2007,

oil on panel, 25 x 25 cm x 2.

Photography Louise Blyton and Terri Brooks.

Yarra Bend Gallery (part 2)

Que des femmes/Only women

Melbourne virtual satellite 'The home show'

Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery

September 22 - 19 November

Curated by Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton

International curator Billy Gruner

Bienniale Curator Roland Orepuk

Munira Naqui (us), Wendy Kelly, Terri Brooks

Exterior placement:

Sarah Robson, Unfolding geometries (shirt grid), 2018,

cotton shirt, 50 x 25 cm. Pinned to the wall.

Suzan Shutan, Galls, c2016,

tar roofing paper, pom poms, 34 x 22 cm.

Susan Buret, Flutter, 2010,

acrylic on birch panel, 20 x 15 cm.

Danielle Lescot, Brisant, c2015,

white stoneware, 18 x18 x 18 cm.

Karen Schifano, Untitled, 2013,

acrylic on panel, 15 x 19 cm.

Suzie Idiens, Untitled (Black Pair), 2013,

ply and acrylic, 25 x 50 x 5 cm.

Jennifer Joseph, Untitled, 2016,

acrylic on wood, 70 x 40 cm each.

(Jennifer Joseph is represented by Niagara Galleries Melbourne).

Wilma Tabacco, Small Excavation (selected works), 2015,

acrylic on canvas panel, 15.2 x 30.3 cm each.

Munira Naqui, Harvest Moon, 2017,

pigment, encaustic wax on wood, 20 x 15 cm.

Wendy Kelly, Traverse, 2016-7,

acrylic, oil and thread on canvas, 61 x 51 cm.

Photography Louise Blyton and Terri Brooks.

The Home Show

Que des femmes/Only women

Melbourne virtual satellite 'The home show'

Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery

September 22 - 19 November

Curated by Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton

International curator Billy Gruner

Bienniale Curator Roland Orepuk

Melbourne is one of the most locked down cities in the world due to Covid-19. When Billy Gruner invited Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton to host the 6th international biennale of non objective art the artists hatched a plan. ‘The Home Show’ is a virtual group exhibition of twenty leading women abstract artists.

The interiors:

Suzie Idiens, Untitled (Black Pair), 2013,

ply and acrylic, 25 x 50 x 5 cm.

Wilma Tabacco, Small Excavation (selected works), 2015,
acrylic on canvas panel, 15.2 x 30.3 cm each.

Munira Naqui, Harvest Moon, 2017, pigment,

encaustic wax on wood, 20 x 15 cm.

Suzan Shutan, Galls, c2016,

tar roofing paper, pom poms, 34 x 22 cm.

Karen Schifano, Untitled, 2013,
acrylic on panel, 15 x 19 cm.

Emma Langridge, Disrupt III, 2020,
enamel / acrylic on wood, 29 x 21 cm.

Susan Buret, Flutter, 2010,

acrylic on birch panel, 20 x 15 cm.

Anna Caione, La Mamma Disperso, 2020,

mixed media, acrylic paint, 40 x 12 cm.

Terri Brooks, White Paint, 2021,

oil on paper, 27 x 20 x 12 cm. (ceramics Kris Coad).

Wendy Kelly, Traverse, 2016-7,
acrylic, oil and thread on canvas, 61 x 51 cm. (Bowl Ruth Levine).

Photography Louise Blyton and Terri Brooks.

The Home Show (part 2)

Que des femmes/Only women

Melbourne virtual satellite 'The home show'

Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery

September 22 - 19 November

Curated by Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton

International curator Billy Gruner

Bienniale Curator Roland Orepuk

The interiors:

Louise Blyton, X, 2021,
acrylic on linen on wood, 31 x 31 cm.

Marlene Sarroff, Equilibrium 2, Equilibrium series, 2014,

industrial rubber, wood, 25 x 30 cm.

Jennifer Joseph, Untitled, 2016,
acrylic on wood, 70 x 40 cm each.
(Jennifer Joseph is represented by Niagara Galleries Melbourne).

Irene Barberis, Assemble Series # 2, Sol Lewitt Studio, 2019, 164 x 22 cm.

Bogumila Strojna, Cube, 2018,

epoxy on aluminium 24 x 24 x .3 cm.

Rose Moxham, Pink Cathedral, 2020,
oil and wax on wood, 20 x 14 cm.

Sarah Robson, Unfolding geometries (shirt grid), 2018,

cotton shirt, 50 x 25 cm. Pinned to the wall.

Louise Gresswell, Fractured (blue edge), 2018, oil on board, 36 x 27.5cm.

Danielle Lescot, Brisant, c2015,
white stoneware,18 x18 x 18 cm.

Connie Goldman, Phasis III, 2007,
oil on panel, 25 x 25 cm x 2.

Photography Louise Blyton and Terri Brooks.

Terri Brooks

6th international biennale of non objective art
Que des femmes/Only women
Melbourne virtual satellite
Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery
September 22 - 19 November

Terri Brooks and Amanda Ryan at the opening of Direction Now,
Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne 2014.

I created Art Thoughts AU in 2008 as an educational resource and record of Abstract art in Australia. At the time I was nearing the completion of my PhD.

Later during 2013-5 I project managed the national touring abstraction exhibition Direction Now. So it gives me great pleasure to host and co curate the Melbourne satellite of the 6th Biennale of Non Objective Art with Louise Blyton.

‘Terri Brooks has held over twenty five solo exhibitions and has participated in shows in public, university, commercial and artist runs spaces including art fairs nationally and in the United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, China, New Zealand, Poland and Greece.

Brooks is currently represented by Flinders Lane Gallery and Linton and Kay Galleries in Australia and Richeldis Fine Art in the United Kingdom.’

L-R Hinged Edges, Veiled Black Dots and Black Square, Direction Now, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Qld, 2015.

Louise Blyton

6th international biennale of non objective art
Que des femmes/Only women
Melbourne virtual satellite
Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery
September 22 - 19 November

Louise with Lisa

Louise Blyton (b. Melbourne) is a reductive artist exploring the romance of raw linen and colour. The artist’s geometrically shaped canvases explore colour, light, and form through the visual language of Reductivism, an aesthetic style characterized by streamlined compositions, restricted colour, and a reduction of form and means. Identifying with Reductivism’s simplicity, Blyton’s shaped canvases and three-dimensional wall sculptures elevate craftsmanship and process, achieving a compositional clarity that unifies colour and form while portraying the accidental coincidence of beauty.

“I’m always looking for a kind of quietness and harmony when making my works, even if the colour being used is loud. It’s the accidental beauty in nature that really captivates me. A small shadow from a leaf across the pavement from above. A reflection in a puddle on a cloudy day. Just nature in everyday life. It’s a reminder that you can view the world in a more intimate way.”

Louise Blyton lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in 1988. Blyton has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions around the world. Recent exhibitions include Annual Summer Exhibition, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, Little Daydreams (petites reveries), at Factory 49 Paris, France; All the Birds are Singing, at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, USA; Drawing Now Paris, at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at MECA, Portland, ME, USA; and ICONS W\ 13, KNO (Kyiv Non Objective), at Mikhail Bulgakov Museum, Kiev, Ukraine. Her works are held in significant corporate and private collections in Australia, China, France, United Kingdom, Portugal, and the United States of America.

Studio installation, 2020, various sizes, acrylic on linen.