Catherine Hearse and Glenn Murray
Complex Life
To June 15
fortyfivedownstairs
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
‘Complex Life brings together the work of two friends and artists, Catherine Hearse and Glenn Murray. Both artists use their artistic processes to explore the idea of interdependence and their positions in the world, in a physical, environmental and emotional sense.’ fortyfivedownstairs website.
To June 15
fortyfivedownstairs
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
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Installation photo Catherine Hearse. |
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Installation photo Glenn Murray. |
‘Complex Life brings together the work of two friends and artists, Catherine Hearse and Glenn Murray. Both artists use their artistic processes to explore the idea of interdependence and their positions in the world, in a physical, environmental and emotional sense.’ fortyfivedownstairs website.
Heather Shimmen
The Ladies of the Pleiades
1 June – 14 July
survey exhibition
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
Opening speaker Stuart Purves AM, Director, Australian Galleries
Shimmen’s linocut prints are layered images; featuring prints, fabrics and felts, that draw on the rich history of local and ancient mythology including ‘The Lady of the Swamp’; ‘The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades’; and Shimmen’s own creation ‘Matilda Waltzing’.
1 June – 14 July
survey exhibition
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
Opening speaker Stuart Purves AM, Director, Australian Galleries
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Installation photo Kari Henriksen
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Installation photo Kari Henriksen |
Shimmen’s linocut prints are layered images; featuring prints, fabrics and felts, that draw on the rich history of local and ancient mythology including ‘The Lady of the Swamp’; ‘The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades’; and Shimmen’s own creation ‘Matilda Waltzing’.
Asta Gröting
Isabel Davies
Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
Level 8, Room 16, Nicholas Building
closed May 18.
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Isabel Davies, Square variations, 2017 — 2019, mixed media |
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Isabel Davies, Installation photo, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery. |
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Isabel Davies |
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Isabel Davies sketch book. |
Isabel Davies was in born 1929. Visit the artist's website here
Adrian Corke
The World of Interiors
For Langford 120
To June 9
West End Art Space
137 Adderley Street
West Melbourne
For Langford 120
To June 9
West End Art Space
137 Adderley Street
West Melbourne
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Adrian
Corke
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Installation photo, The world of interiors, Adrian
Corke. |
Lawrence Carroll
Lawrence Carroll 1954-2019
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Lawrence Carroll, Installation, documenta IX, Kassel, Germany, 1992 |
‘The Australian-born, American-raised painter Lawrence Carroll—known for his expressively elegant, restrained sculptural pictures often assembled from found materials—has died. His death on Tuesday morning was announced by his Cologne gallery Karsten Greve, which has represented the artist since 1999. He was sixty-five years old.
Carroll quietly resisted trends or even a decipherable progression over the span of his forty-year career, though his muted color palette and use of household paint, stitched canvas, oil, wax, and dust to create works which existed in the space between object and art object remained throughout.’ Excerpt Artforum News
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Lawrence Carroll, Table Painting, 2002. |
Extended Gestures Extended
Ben Pell
Charlie Harding
Georgie North
Sean Mcdowell
to May 18Five Walls
Melbourne
'The title for this show is borrowed from the writers Claude Cernuschi and Andrzej Hercyznski who in their essay, The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock’s Abstractions, describe Pollock’s employment of gravity as a means “to extend the duration of his gestures”.1 In easel painting (and in some forms of sculpture), finding a new way to form the gesture has been an important pursuit by many artists, albeit, by the brush or through other less unorthodox means (Brice Marden with his extended stick or Richard Serra with his frenetic lead flinging, both serve as appropriate examples of this type of activity).
The four artists in Extended Gestures Extended build on this endeavour. They pursue methods that are provisional and intuitive and form marks that reference bodily activity. Bold strokes of colour are applied with careful attention to the stroke’s intensity and speed. They innovate ways to disperse paint, be it, through maximum thinning, or strokes that are at once, abbreviated and extended.
In Extended Gestures Extended the gesture is distilled, the painting process renovated and the very orthodoxies of easel painting challenged.' Aaron Martin Curator
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Charlie Harding |
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Ben Pell |
'The title for this show is borrowed from the writers Claude Cernuschi and Andrzej Hercyznski who in their essay, The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock’s Abstractions, describe Pollock’s employment of gravity as a means “to extend the duration of his gestures”.1 In easel painting (and in some forms of sculpture), finding a new way to form the gesture has been an important pursuit by many artists, albeit, by the brush or through other less unorthodox means (Brice Marden with his extended stick or Richard Serra with his frenetic lead flinging, both serve as appropriate examples of this type of activity).
The four artists in Extended Gestures Extended build on this endeavour. They pursue methods that are provisional and intuitive and form marks that reference bodily activity. Bold strokes of colour are applied with careful attention to the stroke’s intensity and speed. They innovate ways to disperse paint, be it, through maximum thinning, or strokes that are at once, abbreviated and extended.
In Extended Gestures Extended the gesture is distilled, the painting process renovated and the very orthodoxies of easel painting challenged.' Aaron Martin Curator
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Georgie North,
Sean Mcdowell
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