LEE BETHEL | KEEPING TIME
LEE BETHEL | KEEPING TIME
Opening Event & Artist Talk Saturday 6 July, 3pm - 5pm
Lee Bethel’s studio is a luminous laboratory in the bush where encaustic wax bubbles away, works in progress are laid out flat and resource piles of torn rag paper are near to hand. For the artist, each exhibition is a record that is being extended and a form of timekeeping. In contrast, the studio is a place of process where forms grow within an elastic quality of time.
Lee Bethel is a prolific mid-career artist and active exhibitor. Recent solo exhibitions include the remarkable Diva (2024) exhibition at Woollahra Gallery which presented her intricate hand-pierced watercolours. A Way With Words (2022) was a solo presentation at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery curated within a “Quintet” of significant artists from the region. In that exhibition, Bethel presented cut paper installations that explored women’s domestic life and craft traditions. In 2023, Bethel was a finalist in the Hazelhurst Art of Paper prize, the Calleen Art Award at Cowra Regional Gallery and the Flow Contemporary Watercolour Prize.
Excerpt from exhibition essay by Melody Willis.
28/6/2024 - 20/7/2024
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DARREN MUNCE | TWITTERING MACHINES
DARREN MUNCE | TWITTERING MACHINES
JOIN US ON FRIDAY 31 MAY, 6 - 8 PM, FOR THE OPENING OF TWITTERING MACHINES BY DARREN MUNCE
Special Event Artist Talk Saturday 1 June, 2.30pm
Darren Munce’s works are an encounter with visual attention and material presence, offering painted surfaces that have been willed into an open resolution. From a distance there is a deep understanding of colour explored through the arrangement of interlocking planes. On approach, great variations of texture gain clarity, the stacked and rolled application of pigment marking the time inherent in making these works. Individual paintings land with a variety of resolutions, dynamic and palpable, ever-shifting or folding through modes.
Excerpt from exhibition essay by Melody Willis.
31/5/2024 - 22/6/2024
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HANNAH BARCLAY | GONE IS THE NIGHT
Image credit: Silversalt Photography
HANNAH BARCLAY | GONE IS THE NIGHT
JOIN US ON FRIDAY 3 MAY, 6 - 8 PM, FOR THE OPENING OF GONE IS THE NIGHT BY HANNAH BARCLAY
Hannah Barclay is a visual artist based on Dharawal Land on the South Coast of New South Wales. Her latest exhibition Gone Is the Night, is a collection of contemporary ceramic sculptures that are embodied meditations on memory and self. Working through the still of the night, Barclay explores the complexities of agitation and relief, using tone and texture to create tension and soothe the discomfort of her late-night ruminations. Her large bulging, bodily forms shimmer with glaze as they slump over metal plinths, exposing the contradiction of material and form, and the precarious nature of emotion.
3/5/2024 - 25/5/2024
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