Art thoughts

Melbourne Art Fair 2018

John Nixon, Two Rooms, Auckland NZ

Ron Robertson-Swann, Charles Nodrum Gallery

Karyn Taylor, Anna Papas Gallery. Cut Perspex, New Zealand.

Richard Lewer NZ (detail)

Paul Lee, Michael Lett, Auckland NZ (Cut bath towels)

Dominik Mersch Gallery, Lottie Consalvo and Martin Browne Contemporary, Idiko Kovacs

‘Spring 1883’ at the Hotel Windsor as part of Melbourne Art Week and coinciding with the Art Fair. The Windsor is a grand Melbourne hotel opposite Parliament House. 24 galleries have taken up suites in the hotel.

Windsor hall

Howard Arkley, Fort Delta

Sarah Scout Presents

Dale Frank at Neon Parc

Singapore Cottege

Is a place I like to visit. It's a small slice of old Collingwood

‘This rare surviving example of a prefabricated building imported from Singapore in the 1850s uses distinctive framing, exotic timbers and Chinese characters which distinguish it from the many prefabricated houses imported during the gold rush period.’ Victoria Heritage Website

Tape

Group exhibition
Curated by PJ Hickman
To August 4
Five Walls
Footscray

Exhibiting artists: PJ Hickman, Raymond Carter, Aaron Martin, Shelley Jardine, Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Craig Easton, Peter Adsett, Fan Zhongming, Melinda Harper, Kubota Fumikazu, Joyce Huang, Emma Langridge

Selected works:

Peter Adsett, NZ

PJ Hickman, Raymond Carter

Samara Adamson-Pinczewskption (courtesy of Charles Nodrum Gallery)

Emma Langridge

Tape acknowledges the wide number of artists utilising tape in their practice. This exhibition brings together international and Australian artists. A range of techniques are exemplified including using tape to obtain a ‘hard edge’ result or tape as the main substrate. Others use tape as a starting point for investigation of ‘the accident’ or interference.

Fiona Halse

July 19 - 28
Factory 49
Sydney

Installation photo at Factory 49

This is Halse’s seventh solo exhibition and the first in Sydney comprising four paintings 200 x 170 cm.

One of the four paintings by Fiona Halse

Painting by Fiona Halse

‘Halse harvests essential abstract forms through affective responses and haptic connections to materials. Her approach is Tachist, but her value of drawing principles, plasticity and formalism create an underlying structure to her work. The four paintings connect to the architectonic construction of the industrial space, but the work also seeks to unearth visceral feeling.’ Excerpt exhibition press release.

Shantih Shantih Shantih

Jon Cattapan, Adam Lee, Sam Martin, Nell, Tomislav Nikolic,

Michelle Ussher, and Jake Walker

Station Gallery,

Prahran
16th Jun - 21st Jul 2018

Selected artists:

Jake Walker, New Zealand, currently living in Melbourne

0080, 2017, oil on hardboard wood, 36.5 x 46.0 cm

0081, 2018, oil on linen mounted on ply paint tubes 26.0 x 35.0 cm

Bench Top Painting, 2013 oil on linen 66.4 x 104.3 cm

Sam Martin, Melbourne based artist

L: Back to the Beginning for the First Time, 2018, thread on canvas board artist039s frame, 113.5 x 71.0 cm.
R: No South, No North, No East, No West, 2018 thread on canvas board artist039s frame, 75.5 x 65.5 cm.

Detail, Martin's works are constructed using a sewing machine

Peter Sharp

How to paint trees
Nicholas Thompson Gallery
155 Langridge Street
Collingwood

Peter Sharp installation image.

Night Eucalypt, 2016 oil and acrylic on linen 153 x 130 cm.

Sepal, 2018 oil and acrylic on linen 46 x 35 cm.

‘For the body of work presented here, the subject of his interrogation are the trees of Fowlers Gap, an arid zone at the edge of the Strzelecki desert in far western New South Wales, a site he has visited many times over the years. While some would be tempted to render this landscape in its entirety, Sharp’s is an intimate approach, concerned with the minutia, foregoing the whole for the sum of its parts.’

Excerpt exhibition essay Michelle Cawthorn, June 2018

Daniel Buren

'Like Child’s Play' (Comme Un Jeu D’Enfant)

Schwartz Carriageworks
Sydney
To August 12

Daniel Buren at Carriageworks, Sydney

‘For me, colour is pure thought, and therefore completely inexpressible, every bit as abstract as a mathematical formula or a philosophical concept’ Daniel Buren

Throughout his career, Buren has created artworks that complicate the relationship between art and the structures that frame it. His work questions how space can be used, appropriated, and revealed both physically and socially.

Daniel Buren is recognised as one of France’s foremost contemporary artists, he has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, winning the Golden Lion in 1986. His work has been the focus of exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York. Buren’s career spans five decades of interventions, controversial critical texts, thought-provoking public art projects and engaging collaborations with artists from across generations.

Text excerpts from Schwartz Carriageworks media release.

Daniel Buren, Les Deux Plateaux, 1985-1986 permanent sculpture in situ - Paris

White acrylic paint on white and blue, striped fabric, 1974, 184 × 132 cm.

Very exciting to see a large scale work by Daniel Buren in Australia. I have included two earlier works to give the work at Carriageworks some context. After seeing his work at the Palazzo Reale in Milan in 2015 Buren has remained a favorite artist.

Kendal Heyes

Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
Level 8 Room 16 The Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street Melbourne

to July 7

Installation image Kendal Heyes, all work oil and crushed marble on velvet.

Surface detail. Materials oil and crushed marble on velvet

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VIS A VIS

Cindy Chen (Sydney)
Yuria Okamura (Osaka/Melbourne)
Vincent Hawkins (London)
Curated by Charlotte Watson
To July 14th
Five Walls (Gallery 1)
suite 4, lvl 1/119 Hopkins St, Footscray