DECEMBER 15, 2022 @ 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
An MPRG exhibition, curated by Dr Vivien Gaston
Sublime Sea: Rapture and Reality is a spectacular immersive exhibition about the power of the sea in human imagination. Through superb examples of paintings, sculpture, photography, film and the decorative arts, the exhibition evokes the overwhelming experience of nature, from intrepid journeys and mysterious grottos to the infinite space of the ocean.
The exhibition includes loans from major galleries and museums around Australia, including Rupert Bunny’s Sea Idyll, Greg Semu’s The Raft, National Gallery of Victoria, Oswald Brierly’s Yacht Wanderer rounding Cape Horn, Australian National Maritime Museum, and numerous dazzling examples of sea life from Museum Victoria alongside works by contemporary artists including Tamara Dean, Petrina Hicks, Kate Rhode, Dena Kahan and Valerie Sparks.
Sparks’ work Prospero’s Island – South West, 2016, was included in the exhibition.