Amanda Parer: Fantastic Planet Internationally-renowned Australian artist Amanda Parer brings us Fantastic Planet – giant inflatable luminous white ‘humanoids’ who land at different sites across the globe. We are thrilled to announce one such humanoid has chosen Portside Wharf as its new home from 31 August to 26 September! The five-metre-tall figure titled ‘What’s That’ will crouch down over ...
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Lyndal Hargrave: New Work from the Studio The overall effect of Lyndal Hargrave’s work is ethereal and otherworldly with compositional studies that drift between cloudy dreamscapes and underwater worlds. Devoid of representational forms and fixed-point perspectives, emotion is conveyed via subtle nuances of colour, tone and shape, akin to music’s ability to evoke feeling and sentiment. There is progression and impermanence across ...
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Scott Breton: Anthropomorphisms Throughout Scott Breton’s new exhibition ‘Anthropomorphisms’, figure and landscape become equal partners – performing a choreographed dance, a duet. Subtle rhythms and gestures of the landscape can be articulated in the movements of the figures, as the landscape, to some degree, gains its own interiority. The abstracted movements of dancers and life models remain a ...
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Jonathan Kopinski: Bourgeois Spoon Jan Manton Gallery is proud to present Bourgeois Spoon by Jonathan Kopinski. In line with previous efforts, Kopinski’s latest series of work has been produced without a specific underlying narrative or conceptual arc. This allows for unexpected thematic affinities (i.e. places and issues of societal angst, crisis, politics, idealism) to unconsciously emerge between seemingly unrelated and irrational subject matter, ...
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Peter Churcher Peter Churcher (b. 1964, Brisbane) is a leading Australian figurative painter who currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. The artist states, “Since graduating from art school, I have been primarily concerned with the painting of the human figure in a narrative context and the depiction of the human presence – that is the Portrait. ...
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