With reduced mobility following a stroke, celebrated painter Gordon Shepherdson has remained committed to making the short journey to his studio and painting as frequently as he can. These most recent works have been painted from memory and, as a result, there is a strong emphasis on the emotional response to place. The places depicted…
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‘Daniel Crooks: Motion Studies’ currently showing at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) until 25 October traces the Melbourne artist’s sublime ‘time slice’ projects, from his early works in digital video through to his more recent sculptural forms. ‘The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche.’ 1 Gaston Bachelard There is…
Monica Rohan paints to convey a sense of what it feels like to be overwhelmed. Her female figures are represented floating, falling, tumbling, twisted in greenery or, more often, caught in clothing and other patterned fabric. Increasingly, Rohan’s figures are painted in identical pairs or groupings, as the artist explains: ‘by representing multiple selves, the…
In conjunction with ‘GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art’, emerging writers had the opportunity to enter the ‘GOMA Q’ Emerging Writers Competition, launched on the opening weekend of the exhibition. A judging panel comprised of the Emerging Creatives team and the QAGOMA Blog coordinator had the difficult task of choosing a winner from the many high quality…
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Ross Manning is known for his elegant, yet playful, constructions which engage with the fundamentals of physics – matter and motion, space, time and energy. This basic construction of a ribbon and industrial fan takes on a brilliant character in motion, as the artist explains: Drag, gravity, inertia and other forces all play on the…
Grant Stevens is known for his reflection on the ways in which language conveys and structures our personal insights and interpersonal relationships. With a particular focus on screen culture and editing – and, more recently, the effects of social networks and other communication technologies – Stevens draws attention to the difficulty of finding a space…
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