Archive
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Jo Bertini
Elsewhere 17 October - 9 November 2024 The poetic paintings of Jo Bertini are an ode to the wild. Having inhabited diverse desert landscapes for decades, Bertini contemplates and celebrates the personal and anthropological profundity of remote wilderness. The sacredness of sites that cannot be tamed, conquered or colonised, and the ways in which these wild places... Read more -
Nicola Moss
Listening to Nature 21 September - 12 October 2024 Nicola Moss’ layered landscape paintings celebrate the cross-cultural, cross-temporal power of the humble garden. Channeling heartfelt emotional and physical responses to greenspaces, the artist considers the power of plants in nurturing psychological wellbeing. Her works delve into environmental sustainability and ‘sustainism’, optimistically envisioning a world reshaped by harmony, connectedness and... Read more -
Joshua Yeldham
Broken Head 29 August - 14 September 2024 This show, collectively titled 'Broken Head' is ambitious in scale. The artist has pushed himself further than ever before. There are enormous paintings with collaged elements, sometimes organic, foraged from the bush, linen paper pieces carved with a belt sander, giant totemic owls in timber and ceramic, and many ceramic... Read more -
Belinda Fox
and the little things 27 July - 10 August 2024 Consistently across her oeuvre, Belinda Fox has knitted together personal poetics and global realities with a rare sincerity. This coalescence comes naturally to an artist who has lived all over the world, most recently in The Netherlands. Fox’s show ‘and the little things’ orbits the notion of home, in all... Read more
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Arthouse Group Show
Bloom 28 June - 20 July 2024 Read more -
Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands
Pmara Nurnaka (Our Country) 27 June - 20 July 2024 Featuring Stanley Ebatarinja, Vanessa Inkamala, Delray Inkamala, Dianne Inkamala, Reinhold Inkamala, Mandy Malbunka Lee, Selma Coulthard Nunay, Carita Coulthard, Hubert Pareroultja, Jonathon Price, Everard Pei Pei & Mervyn Rubuntja. Artists here at Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre paint in the watercolour tradition of Albert Namatjira. Passed down through family lines, the... Read more -
Hermannsburg Potters
27 June - 20 July 2024 The Hermannsburg Potters are a dedicated group of Western Arrarnta artists creating vibrant handmade ceramic pots that encompass collective and individually lived histories in their distinct Country. This exhibition includes sculptures for which the Hermannsburg potters locate, extract, and process clay from their traditional lands on Western Aranda Country to... Read more -
Emma Walker
Tender Internal 30 May - 22 June 2024 Emma Walker distils beauty from fallibility in her new collection of paintings and sculptures, ‘Tender Internal’. Continuing the artist’s deepening fascination with the dialectics of outside and inside, the works honour hidden internal spaces and structures of protection and support. The architecture of shells, skeletons, wings and cavities within the... Read more
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Nicole Kelly
Changing Tides 30 May - 22 June 2024 Nicole Kelly’s new series of paintings, ‘Changing Tides’, expands the artist’s ongoing exploration of her charged emotional response to being in the natural environment. Consistent with Kelly’s oeuvre, celebration rubs up against loss as she honours the natural world whilst hollowing out the histories buried beneath. The works reveal Kelly... Read more -
Off-Site Exhibition
The Art Gallery of Ballarat — Belinda Fox, 'The Light Crept In' 4 May - 11 August 2024 The Art Gallery of Ballarat 40 Lydiard Street North Ballarat VIC Australia 3350 Opening Hours: 10-5pm, daily Belinda Fox’s two room installation of work at the Art Gallery of Ballarat is a testament to her dynamic and fascinating art practice. ‘The light crept in’ speaks to finding light in times... Read more -
Lydia Balbal
Little Bit Long Way 2 - 25 May 2024 On a day like any other Lydia Balbal walked into Broome’s Short St Gallery and announced in brisk, determined fashion, that the time had come for her to paint. Gallerist Emily Rohr says “Lydia is extremely free,” she continues “unconstrained in her art – she throws it right open –... Read more -
Peter Simpson
Across the Quiet Water 4 - 27 April 2024 Inspired by the words of Hisham Matar – who writes about paintings requiring time to truly unfold – Peter Simpson’s lyrical landscapes are best viewed slowly, quietly. There is a stillness in the Sydney artist’s renditions of land and sea, a soft tranquillity that holds us in silent embrace until... Read more
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Off–Site Exhibition
Cement Fondu – John Prince Siddon 16 March - 5 May 2024 Cement Fondu 36 Gosbell St, Paddington NSW 2021 Opening Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm In partnership with Mangkaja Arts Resource Centre, Disco Dreamtime Drums is a new exhibition by Walmajarri artist John Prince Siddon, featuring a suite of Cement Fondu commissioned artworks, including a central drum installation, grid... Read more -
Lauren O'Connor
Two Moons 7 - 30 March 2024 Lauren O’Connor’s practice reminds us that the natural world is in constant flux, re-affirmed in each painting to the point of mantra. Her works are disorderly stratums of decisive, colourful brushwork; each bed of paint either obfuscates or reveals a window to the preceding. What we see in the surface... Read more -
Leah Fraser
The Thin Places 7 - 30 March 2024 Leah Fraser is enchanted by the universal psyche that has connected civilisations, both ancient and contemporary, throughout history. “It’s so interesting that as humans we have these stories that are parallel to one another, it reflects our way of explaining the world and nature and science, before there were words... Read more -
Melbourne Art Fair
John Prince Siddon 22 - 25 February 2024 The extraordinary work of John Prince Siddon is a physical experience as much as a visual one, where the traditions of Indigenous and Contemporary art shift and transform into Prince’s unique motifs, stories and mark making that transport us into his world. Possessing an iconic energy that feels familiar to... Read more
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John Baird
Harbour Swimmers 1 - 24 February 2024 The visual symphony of colour, memory and imagination are the cornerstones of John Baird’s new exhibition ‘Harbour Swimmers’. Floating in glorious nostalgia and beauty, Baird’s paintings depicting Sydney Harbour and his enigmatic still lifes are an invitation to the viewer to celebrate the Australian summer and find harmony in the... Read more -
Arthouse Group Show
Summer – Part 2 1 - 24 February 2024 Arthouse Gallery is delighted to begin 2024 with 'Summer' featuring a selection of new and exciting works from our stable of artists. This coming year features solo shows by newly–represented, emerging artists as well as presentations from our celebrated and diverse stable of Australian contemporary practitioners. Read more -
Arthouse Group Show
Summer – Part 1 9 - 27 January 2024 Arthouse Gallery is delighted to begin 2024 with 'Summer' featuring a selection of new and exciting works from our stable of artists. This coming year features solo shows by newly–represented, emerging artists as well as presentations from our celebrated and diverse stable of Australian contemporary practitioners. Read more -
Off–Site Exhibition
George Place 19 December 2023 - 29 February 2024 George Place is an outstanding office precinct in the thriving hub of Sydney’s CBD. George Place hosts a series of inclusive events and activities to enhance the workday experience for the community. This exhibition, presented in collaboration with Justin Miller Art, features exciting works from the Arthouse Gallery stable throughout... Read more
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Online Exhibition
Festive Gift Ideas 7 - 9 December 2023 Read more -
Jo Davenport
Stolen Flowers 30 November - 16 December 2023 For Jo Davenport, abstraction is an instrument of the heart. Paint expresses feeling in ways that words cannot; the universal language of line, colour, gesture. Responding intuitively to felt experiences of the natural landscape – particularly the Murray River region where the artist resides – Davenport creates charged spaces rippling... Read more -
Kate Bergin
Table of Contents 2 - 25 November 2023 The virtuosic paintings of artist Kate Bergin take the viewer on a playful expedition through the absurd and the profound. Strange gatherings of animals and objects are configured in impossible scenarios on the brink of collapse atop tables draped with white cloth, alluding to the conventions of seventeenth century Dutch... Read more -
Colin Pennock
Space to Find Peace 12 - 28 October 2023 The driving force to move or make marks is to find distance and peace in my mind. – Colin Pennock Colin’s cats live inside. It’s to protect the birds – and, of course, the other wildlife that share the Noosa Hinterland property where he works and lives. The landscape slips... Read more
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Dean Home
White Clouds in my Garden 21 September - 7 October 2023 A new presentation of paintings by Dean Home is always an occasion to anticipate and relish; his artistic process and output renowned for being slow and meticulous. With this lyrical exhibition ‘White Clouds in my Garden’, the artist again revels in the sensory world, which is as fundamental to his... Read more -
Clifford How
A Fragile Strength – Sydney Contemporary 7 - 10 September 2023 Clifford How’s newest series, ‘A Fragile Strength’, is a painterly ballad of Tasmania’s ancient wilderness. As a fourth-generation Tasmanian, the variability – and volatility – of this island landscape is dear to the artist’s heart, but this affiliation is not without a recognition of the colonial shadows that problematise the... Read more -
Arthouse Group Show
Sydney Contemporary Collection 2023 – Booth F12 7 - 10 September 2023 Read more -
Joshua Yeldham
In Return 18 August - 9 September 2023 Arthouse Gallery is delighted to present ‘In Return’, an evocative photomedia exhibition by leading contemporary artist Joshua Yeldham. In December 2023 Yeldham’s unique hand-carved photographic practice will be highlighted in the National Gallery of Victoria ‘Triennial’ exhibition. The NGV has acquired Resonance (8 in a series of 9) for their... Read more
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Kate Dorrough
The Vessel and the River 27 July - 12 August 2023 Dorrough’s body of work is an invitation to float suspended within the landscape – like silt in a river. A sensation that draws its embodied inspiration from the artist's memories of swimming in creeks on family holidays during her formative years. Floating in a natural body of water alters our... Read more -
Nicola Moss
Choose Love 6 - 22 July 2023 The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons. – Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul. A silent meditation on the healing power of nature when approached with love, Nicola Moss’ new series, ‘Choose Love’, continues her exploration of green... Read more -
Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands
Kangkwerrama – Respectfully Take Notice 15 June - 1 July 2023 Featuring Vanessa Inkamala, Dellina Inkamala, Dianne Inkamala, Delray Inkamala, Reinhold Inkamala, Kathy Inkamala, Selma Coulthard Nunay, Mervyn Rubuntja, Betty Namatjira Wheeler Naparula, Benita Clements, Mandy Malbunka, Kathleen France & Ada Lechleitner. Artists here at Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre paint in the watercolour tradition of Albert Namatjira. Passed down through family... Read more -
Hermannsburg Potters
15 June - 1 July 2023 The Hermannsburg Potters are a dedicated group of Western Arrarnta artists creating vibrant handmade ceramic pots that encompass collective and individually lived histories in their distinct Country. The Hermannsburg artists continue a 30-year legacy, sculpting and painting their visual histories and contemporary settings, speaking to their cultural beliefs, traditions and... Read more
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Arthouse Group Show
Present Tense 15 June - 1 July 2023 Read more -
Naomi Hobson
Language of the Land 27 May - 10 June 2023 'Language of the Land' is painted in concert with the natural landscapes of her Country - from the rainforests to the grasslands, and hinterlands traveling down to the coast and its precious reefs. The works have travelled from Coen, a small and close-knit community of about 360 people in Cape... Read more -
Group Show
Paper 4 May - 10 June 2023 'Paper & Clay' brings together the work of twenty-nine Australian artists traversing the timeless materiality of two enduring artforms. Unencumbered by dense conceptual wilderness, the works in this show posit medium as both object and subject in a shared celebration of physical form. Processes of glazing, inscribing, hand-building and throwing... Read more -
Group Show
Clay 4 May - 10 June 2023 'Paper & Clay' brings together the work of twenty-nine Australian artists traversing the timeless materiality of two enduring artforms. Unencumbered by dense conceptual wilderness, the works in this show posit medium as both object and subject in a shared celebration of physical form. Processes of glazing, inscribing, hand-building and throwing... Read more
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Clifford How
Wild State 30 March - 22 April 2023 Clifford How's newest series, 'Wild State', is a painterly ballad of Tasmania's ancient wilderness. As a fourth-generation Tasmanian, the variability - and volatility - of this island landscape is dear to the artist's heart, but this affiliation is not without a recognition of the colonial shadows that problematise the contemporary... Read more -
Danelle Bergstrom
Entwined 2 - 25 March 2023 When I visit Danelle Bergstrom's Hill End studio in July 2020, it is raining, and the village is washed in a misty haze. The landscape is drinking-in this downpour, thirsty still from the prolonged drought and Australia's hottest summer on record. A rich petrichor fills the senses, the sweet smell... Read more -
James Ettleson
Rubik's 2 - 23 February 2023 On the surface, James Ettelson’s work has always been a celebration of colour where intricate detailed patterns and visual motifs invite the viewer to experience his everyday life and the ways in which he sees the world around him. The polychromatic patterns, short, quick mark making and carefully layered lines... Read more -
Kate Ballis
Before Time 2 - 23 February 2023 Kate Ballis employs photography as a conduit into the unseen. Straddling the empirical and the magical, her photographs capture invisible energy, mystifying the mundane and rendering the familiar foreign. 'I am fascinated with unseen energy', reflects the Melbourne artist, who works with a specially converted full-spectrum mirrorless camera and infrared... Read more
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Arthouse Group Show
Summer 2023 14 December 2022 - 28 January 2023 Read more -
John Baird
Harbour and Interior Views 14 December 2022 - 28 January 2023 Working across painting, collage and sculpture, John Baird has developed a singular aesthetic that explores slippages between utilitarianism and decoration, memory and imagination. With a note of nostalgia, the sailboat, the dressing table and the floral arrangement are elevated from the commonplace and the viewer is invited to bask in... Read more -
Michaye Boulter
Towards Light 18 November - 10 December 2022 The deeply evocative paintings of Michaye Boulter reflect a lifetime spent on and around the ocean, exploring the ways we summon memories of place as markers of our ever-morphing identity. From her home on Bruny Island to Recherche Bay, the otherworldly landscapes of Southern Tasmania are conduits for Boulter to... Read more -
Jo Bertini
Deep in Land 20 October - 12 November 2022 Creating art is arguably a form of magic. In the work of Jo Bertini, one can plainly see an alchemy and interplay of paint, surface, pigment, pressure, line, shape, contour, space, and light. Her decades of painting deserts, considered both a mystical and forbidding environment, are distilled in this newest... Read more
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Fabrizio Biviano
Seven Keys to Distinction 21 September - 15 October 2022 The carefully orchestrated paintings of Fabrizio Biviano explore fraught bonds between objecthood and identity. Reworking the conventions of Dutch still life painting through a contemporary lens, Biviano engineers curious compilations of everyday items in an ongoing questioning of how material culture defines us. In his compositions, collections of books are... Read more -
Robyn Sweaney
Living on the Edge 21 September - 15 October 2022 I don’t think Robyn Sweaney and I are the only people who harbour an emotional connection to the humble working and lower middle class homes of the immediate post-War period. Whether it’s nostalgia or an affection for their unassuming regionalist modernism, they retain an enduring interest. Ironically, these modest, free-standing... Read more -
Belinda Fox & Neville French
Fall 8 - 11 September 2022 While Belinda Fox and I were in conversation about this essay, she emailed me the following quote from an interview with British artist Phyllida Barlow, with the postscript, ‘I wish I had said that!’: I’ve often spoken of the simile being a kind of curse; a desperate need to find... Read more -
Sydney Contemporary 2022 Group Show
8 - 11 September 2022 Read more
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Nicole Kelly
Margins of Imtimacy 18 August - 10 September 2022 Nicole Kelly paints personal vignettes that materialise moments in time and space. Her beguiling scenes, both interior and landscape, form emotional and psychological cartographies tracing the artist’s own spatial experiences, intimately observed and sensitively felt. Interested in the ambiguity of person and place, Kelly constructs suspended narratives that divulge just... Read more -
John Prince Siddon
My Painting is My Voice 23 July - 13 August 2022 John Prince Siddon is a Walmajarri man who lives in the remote township of Fitzroy Crossing in the West Kimberley. Prince’s psychedelic surrealist paintings bring some of the most urgent themes of our time into piercing view. His ironic combination of Australian narratives, current affairs and ancestral creation stories articulate... Read more -
Rosie Tarku King
I've Walked Long Way 23 July - 13 August 2022 While painting with peers at Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency, Rosie Tarku King often tells a story of herself: how she walked out of her home in the Great Sandy Desert with her sister, Penny, aged around sixteen. Rosie and Penny continued to walk, and walk, across the Pilbara over the... Read more -
Lauren O'Connor
Eating Wild Honey 24 June - 16 July 2022 Perceptions of place – in all its theoretical and physical vicissitudes – coalesce in the paintings of Lauren O’Connor. Working with hand-mixed acrylics, gouache and ink, the artist responds to natural, domestic, urban, psychic and imagined environments; and every space in between. She orchestrates felt tensions between ‘wilderness’ and the... Read more
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Naomi Hobson
Adolescent Wonderland 11 June - 31 July 2022 In her first major photographic solo exhibition in NSW, Southern Kaantju/Umpila artist Naomi Hobson will present a newly commissioned, immersive photographic exhibition at Cement Fondu. Renowned for her vibrant paintings, this new commission gives Hobson the opportunity to further develop her work with photography, her engagement with Country and concerns... Read more -
Naomi Hobson
Grounded in Nature 26 May - 18 June 2022 Grounded in Nature is the first solo presentation of Naomi Hobson's paintings in Sydney, here on Gadigal land. The works have travelled all the way down from Coen, a small and close-knit community of about 360 people in Cape York. This town, where Hobson lives and creates her work, is... Read more -
Amelia Lynch
Rockpools 30 April - 21 May 2022 The enchanting ceramics of Amelia Lynch distil the patterns, forms and colours tinting her lived experience of the Australian landscape. The Central Coast artist’s hand-built sculptures conjure sensed and seen elements of places she has spent time – Bouddi National Park, Wyrabulong National Park, Nunn’s Creek and Central Australia. Concave... Read more -
Nicola Moss
Green Makes Me Happy 30 April - 21 May 2022 At the centre of Nicola Moss’ art is a heartfelt consideration of environmental sustainability and ‘sustainism’, as the artist optimistically envisions a world reshaped by harmony, connectedness and symbiosis. In her effervescent paintings and paper collages, nature is implied but not defined – through the trope of the garden. Just... Read more
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Jo Davenport
Tread Gently 2 - 23 April 2022 The paintings of Jo Davenport are an act of reverence, a soft yet enduring enunciation of the profundity of nature and its fortitude in an age of anthropogenic activities. Straddling a mid-point between recognition, of the landscape, and the sensed experience of it, Davenport’s works summon the ‘spirit’ of places... Read more -
Dean Bowen
Nitty Gritty 5 - 26 March 2022 The distinction between two-dimensional and three-dimensional works isn’t so straightforward for Dean Bowen. When we talk about his preparatory work for ‘Nitty-Gritty’, he tells me that his bronze sculptures have a special, twinkling kind of relation to the creatures in his paintings and prints. Many of Bowen's figures pop up,... Read more -
Colin Pennock
To Follow Gentle Voices 5 - 26 February 2022 Colin Pennock works intuitively, guided not by narrative but by the visceral act of painting. Harnessing the expressive power of oil, the artist externalises his inner cosmos in ways that are both gently private and vastly inclusive. The self-described “vortex” of Pennock’s psychic landscape is transcribed in poetic pieces; spectral... Read more -
Joshua Yeldham
Hearthstone 13 November - 4 December 2021 Used the way Joshua Yeldham intended, Healing Heart has light and warmth emanating from both its base and centre: the stomach and the chest of its slightly-more-than-human figure. With a candle placed inside, the ceramic work takes on a quality of deep, settled earthliness. A blue perforation at the heart... Read more
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Kate Bergin
Royal Gala Performance 22 October - 6 November 2021 The virtuosic paintings of artist Kate Bergin take the viewer on a playful expedition through the absurd and the profound. Strange gatherings of animals and objects are configured in impossible scenarios on the brink of collapse atop tables draped with white cloth, alluding to the conventions of seventeenth century Dutch... Read more -
Samantha Everton
Marionettes – 10th Anniversary 21 September - 16 October 2021 A decade ago acclaimed Australian photographer Samantha Everton debuted her ‘Marionettes’ collection. Since then the photographs from this series have appeared in national and international exhibitions as well as on the pages of magazines and photographic journals across the world. With much of the series having entirely sold out to... Read more -
Ian Greig
That Which... 21 September - 16 October 2021 When we speak about his most recent body of work, I ask Ian Grieg about the embodiment – the daily material detail – of his studio practice. Refreshingly, he emphasizes the pleasure that structures his process of painting: the viscous flow of movement and of feeling when working, and the... Read more -
Emma Walker
Distillations 28 August - 18 September 2021 The seeds of ‘Distillations’ were sown in March 2020, when I went to Port Macquarie as an invited artist of the Glasshouse residency program. Midway through my stay, the town grew very quiet and by the end, a national lockdown was instated. Nonetheless, I spent mornings exploring the beautiful coastline... Read more
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Dean Bowen
Bird Watching 18 - 24 August 2021 With a practice spanning over thirty-five years and encompassing painting, sculpture and printmaking, Melbourne-based artist Dean Bowen has developed a distinctive symbolic language. Renowned for his charming, whimsical renditions of kindly animals, quirky characters and Australian environments, the artist evinces the simple pleasures of human habitation within the modern world.... Read more -
Clifford How
Takayna – The Edge of the World 24 July - 14 August 2021 Clifford How’s previous paintings took us on a journey to the Tasmanian Central Highlands. In these new landscapes, 'Takayna – The Edge of the World', he takes us on another journey, to the dramatic coastline of Tasmania’s north-west Tarkine region. But ‘journey’ is a word suffering from over-use. It suggests... Read more -
Susan Baird
Where the Light Falls 5 - 26 June 2021 A decade ago Susan Baird first made the artists pilgrimage to the remote community of Hill End in Central New South Wales. This former gold mining town is an infinitely fertile fount of inspiration for many artists and Baird has continued to be called back to this place time and... Read more -
Belinda Fox
Cultivate 5 - 26 June 2021 Belinda Fox’s exhibition, ‘Cultivate,’ suggests something essential about our present moment. After eight and a half years living abroad, Fox recently uprooted her life and returned to Australia in the heat of Covid. And the reality of this uprooting inevitably migrates into her work. “A lot of the show is... Read more
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Jo Bertini
Songs of Dry Hills 11 - 29 May 2021 After nearly three decades of traversing, contemplating and capturing desert landscapes throughout Australia and across the world, Jo Bertini found a true connection to the desert of New Mexico, where she now lives and works. In this new suite of paintings, entitled ‘Songs of Dry Hills’, Bertini takes her desert... Read more -
Leah Fraser
Let Her Go Into Darkness 11 - 29 May 2021 Motherhood, the occult, nature are expressed through Fraser’s paintings. Each work, centred on one female figure who appears floating or falling, never escaping their surroundings. Here, there is an energy of being tightly held in the space. In these depictions feminine power is limitless, diverse and divine. In For the... Read more -
Nicola Moss
Plants Give Me Hope 13 April - 1 May 2021 Always at the heart of Nicola Moss’ art is an honest engagement with environmental awareness, orbiting the ever-relevant question: What is sustainability? Her thoughtfully articulated paintings and paper collages circulate increasing tensions between ‘Nature’ and ‘Culture’ while, at the same time, optimistically positing harmony and symbiosis as a possible pathway... Read more -
James Ettelson
Are We There Yet? 10 - 27 February 2021 James Ettelson’s latest series ‘Are We There Yet?’ sees the Sydney artist expanding and contracting his processes like an accordion. While some of the paintings continue his signature compilation of motifs and patterns, other works are more spatially indulgent, heralding a new direction for Ettelson as he navigates ostensibly incongruous... Read more
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Nicole Kelly
For What Binds 10 - 27 February 2021 The deeply layered paintings of Nicole Kelly posit natural landscapes as receptacles of slanted human narratives. Her evolving visual language conjures emotional and psychological cartographies that trace the artist’s own spatial experiences of the land, intimately observed and sensitively felt. While celebrating the profundity of the land, she also considers... Read more -
Michaye Boulter & Jon Eiseman
Cusp 1 - 19 December 2020 Having spent her life on the sea, Michaye Boulter explores the reciprocity between landscapes and the human psyche. Devoid of human imprint, Boulter’s virginal vistas engage with the traditions of colonial painting to critically question the idea(l) of discovery. These pristine unpeopled scenes appear as revenant visions from a time... Read more -
Joshua Yeldham
Providence 6 - 21 November 2020 Providence, one meaning of the word is good fortune. Another is nature’s ability to yield an abundance of spiritual solace. In Joshua Yeldham’s garden there is a tree. It’s hanging roots and trunk are like a carved curtain. It’s fronds loop and dance into the light. The tree looks archaic... Read more -
Sydney Contemporary 2020 Group Show
1 - 24 October 2020 Read more
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Dean Home
Flowing Fragrance: Dwelling in the Green Mountains 1 - 26 September 2020 Dean Home is undoubtedly one of Australia’s most accomplished still life painters with a string of notable national and international exhibitions behind him. ‘Flowing Fragrance: Dwelling in the Green Mountains’ is arguably his most beautiful exhibition to date, and importantly, demonstrates a significant shift in his practice, a career spanning... Read more -
Clifford How
Antipodean Light 5 - 22 August 2020 Clifford How’s ‘Antipodean Light’ invites viewers on a solitary traverse across Tasmania’s north-western alpine wilds. The paintings are a visual ode to an environment dear to the artist’s heart. As a fourth-generation Tasmanian, How’s family hails from the Central Plateau region, where he spent much of his youth. After a... Read more -
Fabrizio Biviano
Positive Aspects of Negative Thinking 30 June - 25 July 2020 Fabrizio Biviano reworks the conventions of Dutch still life painting to explore the contemporary currency of objects as embodiments of memory and identity. Reflecting on his own experiences of lapsed time and loss, the artist grapples with the irreconcilable forces of transience and permanence, absence and presence, that shape human... Read more -
Robyn Sweaney
Hidden in Plain Sight 2 - 20 June 2020 Robyn Sweaney responds to the ways in which cultural identity can be read through the physical and philosophical undulations of the Australian landscape, both manmade and natural. Her characteristically detailed paintings picture ubiquitous suburban dwellings and coastal terrain held at the mercy of time, containing within their ageing walls and... Read more
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Kate Dorrough
River Language 5 - 23 May 2020 ‘River Language’ continues Kate Dorrough’s ongoing focus on the river as a fundamental source of fertility within the Australian landscape. In her large-scale paintings and hand-built ceramic forms, the Sydney artist posits the river as a vital life force, with its cyclical nature of renewal and destruction, whilst also considering... Read more -
Kate Ballis
Hyperphantasia 13 - 29 February 2020 Kate Ballis employs photography as a conduit into the unseen. Straddling the empirical and the magical, her photographs capture invisible energy, mystifying the mundane and rendering the familiar foreign. ‘I am fascinated with unseen energy’, reflects the Melbourne artist, who works with a specially converted full-spectrum mirrorless camera and infrared... Read more -
Hobie Porter
Sydney: A Saltwater Perspective 29 November - 14 December 2019 Hobie Porter’s microscopically detailed landscapes examine the faceted intersections between modern civilisation, Indigenous cultures and the natural environment. The artist’s skilful trompe l’oeil and striking verisimilitude capture a specific place and time hedged by a suspended sense of timelessness and transcendence. Notions of catharsis and emancipation radiate from the sublime... Read more -
Nicole Kelly
It Remains 8 - 23 November 2019 Nicole Kelly’s lyrical paintings limn land as a silent witness to multiple and overlapping human narratives. Based between Sydney and France, the artist reflects on how the landscape is a repository of history and memory, etched with the experiences of people past, present and future. Avoiding grand Romantic narratives surrounding... Read more
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Emma Walker
The Dark Sublime 8 - 23 November 2019 The world we see is a world we know. That which is above the surface. However, a small investigation into an unseen world enables us to glimpse at its enormous complexity, intricacies and layers. In ‘The Dark Sublime’, Emma Walker takes a poetic imagining to nature’s world of interconnectivity that... Read more -
Jo Davenport
Red Sky in the Morning 17 October - 2 November 2019 The spirited paintings of Jo Davenport drift effortlessly between rupture and unity. Remembered, real and imagined landscapes converge on the canvas, forming a visual vernacular that silences the constructs of time and space. The artist’s visceral layering of oil, coupled with processes of stripping back and erasure, visualises place as... Read more -
Belinda Fox
You need the light to cast a shadow 18 September - 5 October 2019 Fusing together profoundly personal and global concerns, Belinda Fox’s new series lays bare the paradoxes endemic to contemporary human experience. Working in painting, drawing, glass, sculpture, printmaking and collaboration, Fox examines the volatility of our era, excavating the iridescent beauty that flickers below the shadowy surface of conflict and despair.... Read more -
Colin Pennock
A Forgotten Traveller 12 - 15 September 2019 In all their vastness and intimacy, the spirited landscapes of Colin Pennock visualise the profound valency of memory. Responding to his immediate surrounds in the Noosa Hinterland as well as remembered moments from his Irish homeland, the artist creates visceral compositions that materialise the experiential and emotional undulations of life.... Read more
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Sydney Contemporary 2019 Group Show
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Jo Bertini
Land of Shining Stone 1 - 17 August 2019 The very idea of a desert evokes a camel-string of clichés: shimmering mirages, trackless wastes and blinding dust storms, dwindling water supplies and hopeless odds. Implacable and untamed, deserts have tested the will and endurance of explorers and prophets over the centuries. Their accounts have fixed the desert as a... Read more -
James Ettelson
Selective Hearing 10 - 27 July 2019 James Ettelson's new series, 'Selective Hearing', represents a psychological journey; a recalibration of perspective and honing of identity. After spending three months in Los Angeles on a recent artist residency, Ettelson returned to Sydney with a newfound appreciation of his home - the land, the beach and the people. Acknowledging... Read more -
Kate Bergin
Tabletop Variations 29 May - 15 June 2019 The virtuosic paintings of artist Kate Bergin take the viewer on a playful expedition through the absurd and the profound. Strange gatherings of animals and objects are configured in impossible scenarios on the brink of collapse atop tables draped with white cloth, alluding to the conventions of seventeenth century Dutch... Read more
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Fabrizio Biviano
Love Song Dedications 4 - 20 April 2019 Fabrizio Biviano’s sharply composed still lifes stage incongruous pairings that bring together past and present, self and other. Drawing from the traditions of Dutch still life painting, as well as graphic design aesthetics and autobiographical motifs, the works harness the symbolic currency of objects to explore notions of time, loss... Read more -
Peter Simpson
Canopy 7 - 23 March 2019 The expressive paintings of Sydney-based artist Peter Simpson map the vast topographies of the Australian landscape. From the golden glow of undulating pasturelands to rugged coastal cliffs scarred with the lashes of time, the works evoke a kind of sublime mundane that prompts us to look a little closer at... Read more -
Ian Greig
Not Fade Away 31 January - 23 February 2019 The lyrical paintings of Ian Greig visualise the invisible links that entwine physical and metaphysical worlds. Seeking meaning in colour, form and rhythm, the Sydney artist approaches painting as a poetic gesture; a means of siphoning the aesthetic and philosophical currency of the world around us. Greig’s subterranean landscapes prompt... Read more -
Robyn Sweaney
Backwards Looking Forwards 6 December 2018 - 12 January 2019 The tightly-choreographed paintings of Robyn Sweaney respond to the philosophical and ontological currency of the built environment. The artist’s preoccupation with the Australian architectural vernacular – particularly from the post war period – is rooted in an enduring fascination with the physiognomy of cultural identity. Domestic dwellings divulge more than... Read more
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Michaye Boulter
Shelter 15 November - 1 December 2018 The masterful paintings of Tasmanian artist Michaye Boulter chart the paradoxical vastness and intimacy of the ocean. Having spent much of her life on the sea – due, in part, to her father being a fisherman and her husband a seafarer – Boulter draws from a wellspring of experience in... Read more -
Colin Pennock
Past Voices 25 October - 10 November 2018 Read more -
Dean Home
The River Passes 27 September - 20 October 2018 Arthouse Gallery is excited to launch a new series of paintings by Dean Home accompanied by the first monograph of the artist’s life and work, Dean Home: An Artist's Journey. Drawing from the traditions of Vanitas and Flemish still life painting, Home’s virtuosic compositions celebrate the metaphysical power of objects.... Read more -
Sydney Contemporary 2018 Group Show
13 - 16 September 2018 Read more
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Emma Walker
Surface Immersion 13 - 16 September 2018 Emma Walker’s new collection of paintings, ‘Surface Immersion’, illuminates the creative power that dwells between contradictions and boundaries. Drawing inspiration from extensive travel and an innate desire to absorb the world around her, the artist explores connections between landscape, memory and the subconscious through texture, tactility and surface. Her works... Read more -
Leah Fraser
In the beginning there were stars 23 August - 15 September 2018 The otherworldly paintings of Leah Fraser form an ocular poetry. Each work is a lyrical stanza narrating the mysteries of existence across history and mythology. Moving through liminal realms, ethereal beings coalesce with a dense bounty of flora and fauna in silent symbiosis. Fraser calls upon the symbologies of various... Read more -
Caroline Gibbes
Turning Heads 26 July - 18 August 2018 Arthouse Gallery is delighted to showcase a whimsical and dynamic new collection of hand built ceramics by Caroline Gibbes in her first solo exhibition. After a 35-year creative career as a jewellery, fashion and interior designer in Australia and Hong Kong, Gibbes’ sophisticated style and creative expression is reflected in... Read more -
James Ettelson
Everything Is 21 June - 14 July 2018 The paintings in ‘Everything is’ signal a widening of perspective for Sydney artist James Ettelson as he translates everyday experience into a tightly-knit tapestry of marks, motifs and colour. ‘It’s seeing the world through my eyes,’ says the artist, who ciphers inspiration from family, friends, landscape, love and loss –... Read more
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Samantha Everton
Indochine 3 - 19 May 2018 Indochine depicts a woman navigating the conflicting cultural pressures of the East and the West. Exuding vivid sensuality, the artworks plunge the viewer into a colour-saturated dreamscape. The series explores the encroachment of Western fashion within Asian cultures and the struggle for authenticity amidst contemporary influences. Behind the amplified colouration... Read more -
John Baird
Regatta 22 March - 21 April 2018 Working across painting, collage and sculpture, John Baird has developed a unique aesthetic that explores how slippages between utilitarianism and decoration inhabit everyday objects. With a lingering aura of nostalgia, the sail boat, the dressing table or the floral arrangement are elevated from the commonplace. By consciously conflating foreground and... Read more -
Dean Bowen
The Welcome Stranger 22 March - 21 April 2018 With a practice spanning over thirty-five years and encompassing painting, bronze sculpture and printmaking, Melbourne-based artist Dean Bowen has developed a distinctive symbolic language that traverses urbanity and rurality, humanity and animality. Renowned for his charming, whimsical renditions of kindly animals, quirky characters and Australian environments, the artist evinces the... Read more -
Fabrizio Biviano
Potemkin Still Life Blues 22 February - 17 March 2018 Australian artist Fabrizio Biviano creates self-referential still lives and landscapes that explore notions of spent time, both his own and others’. Ciphering inspiration from the traditions of Dutch still life painting, graphic design and personal experiences, he employs motifs of daily life to examine his personal investments of time, loss... Read more
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Joshua Yeldham
Endurance 28 November 2017 - 17 February 2018 Joshua Yeldham’s new collection ‘Endurance’ nurtures a space where boundaries collapse and binaries converge. Through his highly symbolic visual vernacular, the artist takes us on an inward odyssey inspired by recent travels throughout Japan, Arizona and India, as well as his ongoing affiliation with Australia’s Ku-ring-gai and Hawkesbury regions. Working... Read more -
Danelle Bergstrom
Våga 1 - 18 November 2017 Danelle Bergstrom creates wildly evocative landscapes that pictorialise the artist’s lived experiences. In her new collection, Bergstrom personifies the land as a vessel for emotion. The paintings are autobiographical expressions of recent experiences in Hill End, Australia, and Källskär, Åland, Finland, functioning as tangible footprints along well-trodden roads winding through... Read more -
Belinda Fox
Tapestry 12 - 28 October 2017 Drawing from her virtuosic skills as a former Master Printer and informed by extensive travels, Belinda Fox creates meticulous works centred on the duality of human experience. Working in painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking, the artist responds to the strains of conflict endemic to contemporary human experience. Notions of survival... Read more -
Jo Davenport
Beyond Landscape 21 September - 7 October 2017 Jo Davenport’s lyrical oil paintings inhabit the liminal resting place between real, imagined and remembered landscapes. For the artist, the notion of space is not defined by perspectival strictures and physical form, but conceived as a scintillating constellation of memories and emotions. Davenport’s new paintings are portraits as much as... Read more
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Sydney Contemporary Group Show 2017
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Robyn Sweaney
The Summer That Was 26 July - 12 August 2017 'The Summer That Was’ explores the psychological currency of the artist’s often-annual pilgrimage to Victoria, where she recently spent the summer reconnecting with the coastal landscape that she grew up in. Historically, pilgrimages have been taken for spiritual and cultural reasons, and in our contemporary technological era of widening urbanity... Read more -
Deborah Halpern
Hug a Tree, Kiss a Dog 15 June - 8 July 2017 Over her incredible forty-year career, Deborah Halpern has produced an extraordinary body of work traversing the mediums of sculpture, painting, pottery, glass blowing and printmaking. Through her numerous public sculptures, the artist has become a much-respected figure within the art world. Featuring a colourful herd of whimsical creatures, Halpern’s new... Read more -
Colin Pennock
Intrusion 4 - 20 May 2017 Pennock’s new collection of paintings, ‘Intrusion’, externalises the artist’s recent ruminations on the parallel journeys of his life and work. He self-reflexively examines his own visual language, often revisiting formative works to unlock the way forward. ‘I travel back and forth through the long journey I’ve taken to make my... Read more
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Leah Fraser
Within You, Without You 2 - 18 March 2017 Leah Fraser began working on the pieces for this show when she was pregnant earlier in 2016. Contemplating the new life inside her prompted her to also meditate on the irrevocable link between birth and death. ‘It also made me think about transformation’ she recalls, ‘because birth and death are... Read more -
John Baird
Running & Windward 2 - 18 February 2017 Working across painting, collage and sculpture, John Baird has developed a unique flattened aesthetic that explores how slippages between utilitarianism and decoration embed everyday objects. Scouring demolition sites for material remnants of past lives – wallpaper, fabric and flocking – the artist laces his paintings with these revenant fragments to... Read more -
Michaye Boulter
Journey of Water 24 November - 10 December 2016 Bruny Island-based artist Michaye Boulter creates virtuosic seascapes inspired by the Australian coastline and the sublimity of the infinite ocean. Having spent much of her life afloat with her fisherman father and seafarer husband, Boulter draws from a fertile wellspring of inspiration, experience and knowledge. Her paintings chart the paradoxical... Read more -
Peter Simpson
Water Through Trees 3 - 19 November 2016 Drawing from traditions like Romanticism, 17th Century Dutch landscape painting and Modern Australian masters such as Arthur Streeton, Sidney Nolan and Fred Williams, Peter Simpson works within an historical framework to perpetuate his effervescent belief in the contemporary validity of the oft-overlooked landscape genre. From the quiet majesty of undulating... Read more
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James Ettelson
Garden Crashers 13 - 29 October 2016 James Ettelson’s new series of large-scale acrylic works extend his ongoing interrogation of contemporary urban life via a focus on the fragile intersections of nature and culture. The paintings draw from the artist’s Instagram alter ego ‘Garden Crashers’, a photographic account dedicated to his long-time obsession with gardens. Working from... Read more -
Emma Walker
Sediment Songs 14 September - 1 October 2016 ‘Sediment Songs’ represents Emma Walker’s intuitive translations of different experienced environments. Carved and painted on board, the works channel the vast native landscapes the artist has walked through in Central Australia as well as Walker’s home on the coastal fringe of Northern New South Wales. The geographic and topological nuances... Read more -
Shona Wilson
Offering 14 September - 1 October 2016 Shona Wilson's new series of sculptural assemblages ‘Offering’ represents the artist’s personal gesture of gratitude to Nature for the tremendous ‘gifted’ bounty. Created solely from found natural material and, specifically, from what the artist had already collected (so as not remove anything ‘new’ from the environment), these works also embody... Read more -
Dean Bowen
Currawong 18 August - 3 September 2016 Dean Bowen’s new body of work, 'Currawong', continues his ongoing fascination with the conceptual currency of birds. In the artist’s earlier works, he was inspired by the tic tack sound of birds running and dancing across his metal studio roof. The bird thence became a classic theme in the artist’s... Read more
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Susan Baird
Sense of Place 21 July - 6 August 2016 Susan Baird’s new suite of paintings capture the evolving sense of place that the artist has developed from immersing herself in different landscapes throughout her long career. Largely created en plein air across Hill End and Tasmania, the paintings canvass the vicissitudes of the natural world, springing as much from... Read more -
Dean Home
Travels Under the Red Cliffs 21 July - 6 August 2016 With a career spanning nearly thirty years, Dean Home is a master of the still life. His virtuosic paintings in this traditional genre are symphonies in composition, each scene dramatically composed and theatrically lit. Antique Chinese vessels that he has carefully collected with swathes of fabric, fecund fruit, calligraphy brushes... Read more -
Jo Davenport
Mapping Hill End 16 June - 9 July 2016 Jo Davenport’s visceral oil paintings inhabit the liminal space between the fading past and the emerging future through their colourful invocation of the landscape. For Davenport, the notion of space is not defined by perspectival strictures but conceived as a meditative resting place between the real and the imagined. Through... Read more -
Hobie Porter
Unnatural History: The Tower Hill Project 19 May - 11 June 2016 ‘Unnatural History: The Tower Hill Project’ commemorates 160 years since Australian artist Eugene von Guérard painted Tower Hill (1855). Employing his characteristic photorealist aesthetic, Porter interrogates the environmental impacts that colonial settlement has had on this special place. Since von Guérard’s celebration of Tower Hill, its natural vegetation was cleared... Read more
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Colin Pennock
Modern Recluse 28 April - 14 May 2016 Irish-born artist Colin Pennock produces emotionally driven landscapes swelling with refined riots of colour. With his studio nestled in the bush of the Noosa Hinterland, the artist directly responds to his immediate surroundings while mnemonically engaging with the remembered landscape of his homeland. Navigating through Pennock’s sumptuous layering of colour... Read more -
Kendal Murray
Show and Tell 24 February - 12 March 2016 Kendal Murray’s new collection of miniature sculptures explores the ontological currency of toys and the psychological forces that motivate individuals to collect. The works allegorise the experience of play, both the act of pretend play and a remembered experience for the collector. Motifs such as tea cups, spinning tops, toy... Read more -
Robyn Sweaney
Looking Sideways, Heading West 24 February - 12 March 2016 Based in Mullumbimby, Robyn Sweaney responds to the suburban mundane of her local rural environment in her layered explorations of Australian identity and place. Tightly refined homes and streetscapes divulge more than their mere exteriors, functioning as repositories of identity – aesthetic incarnations of the belief structures influencing human behaviours... Read more -
Danelle Bergstrom
Return 15 October - 7 November 2015 ‘You are where your heart is’ says Danelle Bergstrom, who paints the land via mnemonic references and imaginative conjurings rather than literally en plain air. Meditative and transformative, her new works symptomise a quiet surrender to the heart – not in an indulgent or sentimental way, but as an honest... Read more
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Belinda Fox
Balancing the World 10 - 13 September 2015 A nomad at heart, Belinda Fox pitches her practice on the social, cultural and visual material gathered on her extensive travels throughout Asia. Having relocated to Singapore three years ago, the artist creates multilayered narratives responding to the vicissitudes of space in East Asia’s mega cities and metropolitan regions. Paradoxically... Read more -
Jo Davenport
Surface Tension 7 September - 3 October 2015 Instead of dwelling on grand Romantic narratives surrounding the sublimity of nature, Jo Davenport’s new series of oils considers the fragility and intimacy of the landscape and its relationship to our emotions and memories. Moving away from topographical and physical representations, they are abstract expressions of the feelings associated with... Read more -
Dean Home
Floating Wine Cups 13 - 29 August 2015 Dean Home’s new suite of paintings hinges on the artist’s interest in Chinese art, poetry and philosophy. The works stylistically alloy Chinese culture with Italianate and Baroque tradition, forging a synthesis between the east and the west. Antique Chinese vessels with swathes of fabric, fecund fruit, calligraphy brushes and vivacious... Read more -
Leah Fraser
Messages from the World Invisible 4 - 20 June 2015 Leah Fraser’s new suite of paintings and ceramics looks at the profound respect for nature that pivots certain cultures and religions. For the artist, humanity has an eternal bond with nature that crowns our most basic instincts, deeply etched in the symbology of human culture. In an age defined by... Read more
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Jon Eiseman
Borderland 7 - 30 May 2015 Working primarily in the medium of bronze, Eiseman has been a practicing artist since 1985. His exquisite bronzes present masterfully cast images of birds, boats and solitary figures that inhabit surreal landscapes. They unveil human desires and aspirations that are suppressed by rational consciousness and the routine of everyday living.... Read more -
Emma Walker
Intimate Intensity 7 - 30 May 2015 ‘Intimate Immensity’ launches Walker’s investigation into the patterns and rhythms that recur in nature and, in the artist’s own words, ‘the tiny and ever-expanding universes that we hold within ourselves.’ From cellular structures to clouds, microorganisms to nebulae, the paintings simultaneously evoke the micro and the macro in a way... Read more -
John Baird
Horizon 17 April - 2 May 2015 John Baird has developed a bold, flattened aesthetic to examine the interior landscape of domestic life and the slippage between utilitarianism and decoration. Scouring demolition sites for material remnants of past lives, the artist laces his paintings with these revenant fragments, creating allegorical narratives, or what he terms ‘a coded... Read more -
Deborah Halpern
Duck Duck Goose 26 March - 11 April 2015 Featuring a new collection of blown glass vessels and intricate mosaic sculptures, Halpern’s solo show conflates art and design with the artist’s characteristic spirit of experimentation and imagination. While the works are exuberant and whimsical, invoking a dreamscape of animated childhood fantasies and fairytales, they are each imbued with a... Read more
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Michaye Boulter
Crossing 6 - 21 February 2015 In her debut exhibition with Arthouse Gallery, Tasmanian artist Michaye Boulter presents ‘Crossing’ - a mesmeric show that speaks of long voyages, the lure of the ubiquitous horizon and the mesmerising emptiness in between. The journeys depicted are both real and imagined, melding childhood memories, old photographs and everyday experiences... Read more -
Belinda Fox
Excavate 15 October - 1 November 2014 Excavate explores the conflicting modalities of Fox’s current residence in Singapore, a small island paradoxically defined by both the ever-increasing need to grow and the rapid decline of space. Here, the natural world competes with people and buildings for precious pockets of space, and for an Australian accustomed to nature... Read more -
Jo Davenport
An Intimate Landscape 10 September - 4 October 2014 'Only artists who surrender to the paint’s sovereignty can become liberated from it. If the brush, the palette and the myriad colours are Jo Davenport’s hardest task-masters, then she has also made them her allies. Time and uncertainty are the defining principles of this artist’s work. These are ideas informed... Read more -
Samantha Everton
Sang Tong 28 May - 14 June 2014 “Samantha Everton possesses an innate ability to access interior states of being in sumptuous visual narratives that have profound cross-cultural, sociological and psychological implications. The title of her new series of photographic art, Sang Tong, translates as ‘the golden shell’ and comes from a beautiful old folk tale from Thailand... Read more
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Kendal Murray
The Collector 7 - 24 May 2014 Read more -
Hobie Porter
Burnshine 26 March - 12 April 2014 Read more -
Leah Fraser
Odyssey and Oracle 28 February - 22 March 2014 This collection of work is based on stories of diverse cultures worldwide; tied together by the thread of the ocean, guided by the stars, emerging from the pool that is history and magic and the unknown, the waters of life, the rivers used for second sight,” says Fraser. “The characters... Read more -
Joshua Yeldham
Surrender Tree 13 November - 14 December 2013 Yeldham’s work is a mapping of multiple realities. It charts the artist’s travels among the mangroves, the disused oyster leases and along the salty foreshores near Pittwater. Yeldham’s cartography moves within this world and without. He is not limited by the materiality of reaching tree limbs or the muddy matter... Read more
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Danelle Bergstrom
Whisper 9 - 26 October 2013 Read more -
Susan Baird
Being in Landscape 22 May - 8 June 2013 Baird’s fluency with pigment and skilful handling of form and tone evoke a convincing, yet poetic description of ‘being in landscape’. The fine tonal modulation and surface quality in Susan Baird’s recent works attest to her skill in wresting compelling imagery from a fundamental motif. Once again, Hill End and... Read more -
Kate Dorrough
The Enduring Landscape and the Inland River 7 - 24 November 2012 Emanating from a residency at The art Vault, Mildura and various trips around rural australia, Kate Dorrough’s latest body of work is a unique interaction of painting and larger-scale ceramics. a mediation on totemic symbols of the landscape and its potent life force. “The inland river is a potent historical... Read more -
Kendal Murray
Flights of Fancy 7 - 24 November 2012 Dream-like narratives are performed by a multitude of microscopic identities with giant personalities. Short stories and tall tales are enacted in a range of playful and dramatic scenarios. Glass teapots, grass-covered purses, mirrored makeup compacts and open books set the stage for each scenario offering the delight of the unexpected,... Read more
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Peter Simpson
Cliffs 26 September - 13 October 2012 Peter Simpson’s latest collection of work focuses on the majestic landscape of Australia’s east and Tasmanian coastline. “This series of oil paintings , gouaches and monotypes explores such familiar scenes as Sydney Harbour, Botany Bay, and Malua Bay on the NSW South Coast capturing the essence of the place in... Read more -
Hobie Porter
Continuum 5 - 22 September 2012 In nature, particles mimic and repeat, amass and decay; continuing in a constant cycle. This constancy, this seemingly infinite patterning in the natural world is both comforting and disturbing. Comforting, because the threat of ‘the end’ is countered by its cyclical, self-preserving qualities, but disturbing, because the ecological world still... Read more -
Dean Home
New Work 6 - 27 August 2011 In this current body of work, exotic women hold brushes and fruits amusing themselves as they arrange and offer their own aesthetic compositions to the artist, entertaining themselves in a kind of self-instruction in the arts. A new motif in Home’s 2011 works is a white teapot depicting playful renderings... Read more -
Danelle Bergstrom
Ten 10 - 28 May 2011 Ten is a continuation of that conversation, through the lens of time. The works are fantastical re-imaginings of past experience, more heavily steeped in meditation and in the internal return of heart and mind to a previous sanctuary. Read more
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Joshua Yeldham
River Song 20 November - 18 December 2010 There is a graphic intensity to Josh Yeldham’s latest works that is rarely – if ever – seen in contemporary art. This is the work of both an obsessive artisan and a potent visionary. This is the stuff of dreams made solid, carved impeccably, stroke by miniscule stroke, tethering the... Read more -
Jon Eiseman
Dreaming of Wings 4 - 21 August 2010 Rich in symbolism, Eiseman’s exquisite bronzes present beautifully cast images of birds, boats and solitary figures that inhabit surreal landscapes; a netherworld of dreams and the subconscious. His poetic works explore the human condition, particularly in a social and spiritual context. His sculpture unveils human desires and aspirations, which are... Read more -
Danelle Bergstrom
Symphony 5 April - 5 May 2010 Like a symphony in four parts, the essential elements of nature – earth, water, air, fire – must interconnect to attain harmony. It is in the balance and communication within those parts, and the associative properties of stability, emotion, thought and passion, that concord is attained.'Like a symphony in four... Read more
