Art thoughts

Roger Kemp

Roger Kemp: Visionary Modernist
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
To March 15

'Roger Kemp: Visionary Modernist is the first major exhibition to chart the development of acclaimed Australian abstract artist Roger Kemp’s career. Best known for his large-scale tapestries that hang in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Great Hall, Kemp is recognised as one of the great inventors in abstract art, striving ‘to make visible the invisible’.' Ian Potter Centre NGV website

Selected images:

Louise Weaver

Between Appearances: The art of Louise Weaver
Curated by Melissa Keys
Buxton Contemporary
University of Melbourne

To 9 February 2020

'Between appearances features more than 100 works in an array of media including sculptural installations, paintings, drawings, printmaking, collage, textiles, movement and sound. The exhibition spans three decades of the artist’s practice and reveals Weaver’s longstanding interests in fields as diverse as visual culture, art history, natural history, science and design.' Excerpt gallery website.

Selected images

Bridget Riley

Retrospective
To Jan 26
Hayward Gallery
London

Installation photos by Stefan Annerel

Helga Groves

Patterns from the heart of a planet
Last day

Sutton Gallery

Melbourne

Fallen Star series #8, 2019, laser cut Perspex, 63 x 91 cm

Patterns from the heart of a planet, 2019, oil and wax on canvas, 120 x 120 cm

Installation image

'Rocks are verbs, writes Marcia Bjornerud in ‘Timefulness’, her account of geology’s study of earth’s planetary history. By offering visible evidence of processes — eruption, accretion, growth — rocks make time legible. Like Bjornerud, Helga Groves reads time’s legibility in the surfaces and markings of stone, transforming them into abstract images and sculptural forms...' Ingrid Periz, Slow Moving Structures, Helga Groves exhibition essay 2018.

Images and text Sutton Gallery Website.

TJ Bateson

Metallic Black
Tacit Galleries
To December 23

168a Gipps Street

Collingwood

Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm

Installation image

Bateson's new body of work is dark but not depressing. Rather, it is soothing and the artist says the repetition of his painterly process is both meditative and healing. An experience which is shared by this viewer.

Adrian Wald

Germany

From the artist's website: https://adrianwald.de/

Canvaszelle, 2019

Installation image

57W57
New York

To December 20

Adrian Wald
Clamp Crushed/Paint Smothered

The waiting room

Steve Reidell
Falling/Rising
The project room

Adrian Wald

Steve Riedell

Ingela Skytte

Sharing Fields of Black

Rumfang
Denmark

Sharing Fields, Cross, black on black, 28", 2019, Acrylic on MDF, 80 x 40 cm.

Installation image

Link to artist Ingela Skytte's: http://www.ingelaskytte.dk/

Daniel Noonan

Echo Hope
To 9 November
Sutton Gallery
Melbourne

Installation image

'Daniel Noonan’s abstractions are sophisticated balancing acts of colour and composition, in which elusive forms, figures and text emerge and dissolve. Central to Noonan’s painting approach is challenging the boundaries of the picture plane.' Excerpt Sutton Gallery website.