I have a couple of collages on display from West End Art Space's stockroom during 'The Island' Exhibition ( 2 - 24 February 2018)
Colville Gallery brings Corinne Costello, Luke Wagner, Chen Ping, Paul Snell, Ian Parry, Josh Simpson, Stephen Lees, Jerzy Michalski, Effie Pryer and more to West End Art Space
Exhibition Details: Exhibition: 21 April – 2 May 2018 Opening: 29 April, 2 - 4pm Location: Langford 120 Address: 120 Langford Street, North Melbourne, Victoria, 3051, Australia Hours: Thursday to Saturday 12 -6pm; Sundays 12 - 5pm Web: www.langford120.com.au Email: langford120@gmail.com Phone: +61 3 9328 8658 Please see other sites for other exhibition details Artists involved at Langford 120:
Lila Afiouni, Pam Aitken, Irene Barberis, Amarie Bergman, Tim Bass, Elizabeth Bodey, Louise Blyton, Andrew Christofides, Adrian Corke, Tracey Coutts, Peter De Lorenzo, Danica Firulovic, Jennifer Goodman, Fiona Halse, Jan Handel, Jason Haufe, Christopher Heathcote, Wendy Kelly, Robin Kingston, Emma Langridge, Sara Lindsay, Kate Mackay, Stephen McCarthy, Aaron Martin, Anne Mestitz, Suzanne Moss, Lindy Patterson, Jessica Peerless, Anya Pesce, Caroline Philips, Linda Pickering, Susie Leahy, Lisa Sharp, Marlene Sarroff, Wilma Tobacco, Cheryl Thornton, Stephen Wickham , Dale Wither, Dan Wollmering
Langford 120 Invite:
Work to be exhibited:
Image: Ashen, Mixed Media and enamel on MDF wood, 2015, 90cm ( H) x 60cm ( W).
Other related exhibitions that align and respond to Field Exhibition at NGV:
Charles Nodrum Gallery - Abstraction 17: A Field of Interest, c. 1968 One of the regular themed group exhibitions presented each year. This ‘Abstraction’ exhibition focuses on the abstract art movements from the 1950s to the present. Abstraction 17: A Field of Interest, c. 1968 is a group exhibition of hard-edge colour-field works to coincide with the re-staging of 1968 The Field exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Exhibition Details: Exhibition: 26 April - 19 May 2018 Location: Charles Nodrum Gallery Address: 267 Church Street, Richmond, VIC 3121, Australia More information
And this! Monochrome: Empty & Full
Featuring: Hayley Millar Baker, David Batchelor, Brian Blanchflower, Louise Blyton, Eugene Carchesio, Mathew Deleget, Christoph Dahlhausen, ADS Donaldson, Craig Easton, Suzie Idiens, Aldo Iaobelli, Raaf Ishak, Noel Ivanoff, Robert Macpherson, Darren Munce, Anne Marie May, Aaron Martin, Junko Matsumoto, Alan Mittleman, April Spencer Napaljarri, Winkie Spencer Napaljarri, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Derek O’Connor, Lenton Parr, Yioryios Papayioryiou, Paul Partos, John Plapp, Steven Rendell, Ayako Saito, David Serisier, Ron Robertson Swann, Michael Staniak, David Thomas.Monochrome: Empty & Full highlights contemporary practices of monochrome painting and sculpture. Exhibition Details: Exhibition: 4 May – 2 June 2018 Opening: 3 May 5.30pm Location: Victorian College of the Arts Address: Federation Hall, Grant Street, Building 861, Southbank, VIC 3006
SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium and Engagement will run from 16 March - 11 June. Curated by Mami Kataoka of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and titled SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium and Engagement, the Biennale will take place in multiple venues across Sydney.
Sydney Ball - The late Sydney Ball was a pioneer in the field of painting and the development of abstraction in Australia. An influential and prolific artist, Ball’s extensive oeuvre can be divided into distinct series, some focused on figuration and others dedicated to abstraction. Each stylistic evolution represents a significant shift in direction, yet Ball’s captivation with form, colour and light remains evident throughout his practice.
Deakin University Art Gallery launches The Centre for Abstract and Non-Objective Art. The launch coincides with the beginning of The Void. Visible. Abstraction & Non-Objective Art, a new exhibition for 2017 that includes the work of artists Stephen Wickham, Stephen McCarthy, Andrew Christofides and Wilma Tabacco.
http://www.minusspace.com/2007/10/frozen-gestures-the-art-of-peter-upward-penrith-regional-gallery-the-lewers-bequest-emu-plains-australia/ You Tube - Jason Haufe
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle – Poetics
Fiona Halse’s first solo exhibition at West End Art Space will showcase a new large abstract painting titled Primavera and smaller collages created in Berlin in 2016. This large painting expands through Tachist marks and textures that move in a linear framework and is contained through white passages of space on the canvas in what Klee refers to as ‘Endotopic’ and ‘Exotopic’ fluidity. Primavera is installed in a small exhibition space. Accompanying Primavera is a series of small collages that highlights not only the difference in scale, but the fertile ground of ideas that was generated during two residencies in Berlin. The works connect as a pod in the space and displays Halse’s need to find structure and feeling through praxis and affective composition.
This exhibition could be considered allegoric on many levels. Forms that are assembled through formal principles and aim to capture visceral feeling can be connected to the concept of allegory, or applied metaphor. In Abstraction, allegory can be communicated through various painterly and pictorial elements and principles with symbolic and hidden meaning. There was a burst of energy in the studio for Halse after the two Berlin residencies which resulted in the creation of Primavera. This burst of energy could be considered as a moment that Heidegger describes as ‘Poiesis’ and aligns with the ‘bringing forth’ process whilst creating an art work. Halse is interested in understanding how drawing and formal principles can be allegorical, metaphoric and poetic and how this can transcribe the unconscious and subconscious. Allegory in its broadest definition can be linked to Abstraction in terms of its spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms.
Halse’s work directly relates to the human figure and forms that convey internal feelings. The Allegory of Spring exhibition relates to personal feelings of elation, freedom and discovery. Video of exhibition
Fiona
Halse’s series of large abstract paintings are concerned with the visceral. The
marks and structure within Halse’s work derive from the architectonic and
relates to the human figure’s internal feeling. These
works are linked with Tachist and Lyrical Abstraction traditions and intuitive,
lateral approaches to picture making are embraced. Her work values drawing, formalism
and affective composition, but she also seeks to capture passages in space
where the subconscious and unconscious can be transcribed. Halse has an
interest in metaphoric form and how this can be transferred through the hand,
materials and through praxis and this is evident in the texture and mark making
in her work. Abstraction to Halse is an
idealised state, and form can be a summarised essence that is stripped and
re-discovered.
These
large paintings connect with the viewer physically and forms replicate
structures that evoke the sense of a human body and there is an offering to the
viewer to enter through virtual pictorial space.But often spaces become closed, passages
vague, dense, and saturated with colour. Halse’s space is private and
ambiguous.A series of black paintings
preceded the works in this exhibition and there are still traces of scaffold,
black marks and spaces that have been found, moved, erased and
re-discovered.
Whilst
there are several large paintings on exhibition, there will also be a selection
of small works on paper and collages created in two arts residencies in Berlin.
Exhibition
Details:
Exhibition: 8 - 25 February 2017
Location: Stephen Mc Laughlan Gallery
Address:Level 8, Room 16, Nicholas Building 37, Swanston
Street, Melbourne, Australia
