Forthcoming:'I remember when': Adair, Adnate, Baird, Cordero, Cyrulla, Feneley, Gall, Hayman, Howson, Home, HUSH, Kempson, Magrin, McAuley, Miller, Pratt, Spirovski
Lennox St. Gallery presents I Remember When, an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by the gallery’s exhibiting and invited artists.
By contrast to Transcript in Flux, which concentrated on abstract paintings and sculpture, I Remember When explores the plurality of artistic approaches within representational genres during the last quarter of the present century, with the focus on the landscape and the human form.
Landscape paintings by Tom Adair, Jason Cordero, Louise Feneley, and Jill Kempson acknowledge the painterly traditions of the past and imbue their works with an emotional gravitas. The seascape by Wayne Magrin conveys the passion and sense of humour of a boating enthusiast. Karan Hayman, Mark Howson, and John Baird, who were among the founding and exhibiting members of Melbourne’s iconic ROAR Studios, are represented by a selection of recent works, which offer interpretations of landscapes and seascapes through the prism of modernist aesthetics.
A number of artists in the exhibition, including Adnate, Dagmar Cyrulla, Dianne Gall, Carl Drummond Milne (HUSH), and Loribelle Spirovski, focus solely on the human visage. They transform portraits of individual sitters and models into images of a universal appeal. Additionally, Dianne Gall and Dagmar Cyrulla demonstrate their versatility in the exploration of the human form by working across a variety of media, including painting, photogravure, and sculpture.
Works by Dean Home, Daniel McAuley, Ross Miller, and Loribelle Spirovski imbue the human figure with allegory and symbolism. Tom Adair and Louis Pratt demonstrate the continuing relevance of representational genres in the contemporary art practice through their utilisation of innovative, cutting-edge AI technologies.
Dagmar Cyrulla’s intimately scaled I Remember When became the leitmotif for the exhibition. Incorporating elements of landscape and figuration, it represents a woman in a contemplative reverie against the flickering twilight of the distant shore.
Just like the woman in the painting, the exhibition invites the viewers to slow down and experience the exhibition in a meditative contemplation, exploring the variety of highly individual approaches to the examination of the human form and landscape in the contemporary art practice through the diversity of narratives, styles, techniques, and media by the artists of Lennox St. Gallery.
