June 2019
Flock | Rachel Coad
“There can be no transforming of darkness into light, of apathy into movement without emotion.”1
Flock is an ambitious series of figurative paintings by Rachel Coad which revisit the warm, muted palette that dominated her early practice.
The subjects of these works are French backpackers who passed through Margaret River on their Australian travels. In exchange for board and lodging, Coad retained them as sitters in the studio, where she sketched, photographed and painted them....
Find out more »Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award at Shepparton Art Gallery
Lynda Draper was awarded the $50,000 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award on June 21, 2019.
Find out more »July 2019
Down the Rabbit Hole | Junko Go
Fable and its translation to contemporary culture has sustained the painting practice of Junko Go for the past decade. Her new series looks at Lewis Carrol's seminal work and includes a range of paintings and accompanying 'Junko philosophies'.
Find out more »August 2019
The Language of Flowers | Lori Pensini
Throughout the history of the world civilisations have used botanical symbols and images. They have woven their forms into the cultural fabric of societies, embedding self and community expression through literature and art to form an unspoken crypto logical language... floriography - the language of flowers.
Find out more »October 2019
| Wilma Tabacco
With a practice firmly grounded in geometric abstraction, yet one which defies easy categorisation, established artist Wilma Tabacco will present her first solo exhibition as part of the Gallerysmith stable.
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