‘The Real and Ideal’ is a photography and video art exhibition featuring works that explore the tension between lived experience and the imaginative faculty.
Artists: Katherine Griffiths, Amy McGregor, Alexander Bell Moffatt, Samantha Small, Natalie Azzopardi, and Johnny Milner.
Curated by: Grace Carroll and Katrina Osborne
M16 Artspace
March 8 to 25, 2012
Australian Capital Territory
Alexander Bell Moffatt, I dream of puddles, 2012, layered transparencies in light box, 6 x 6cm
This is the largest-ever ensemble of collected glass and mixed-media works in Australia by Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce.
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Kirrily Humphries produces intricately detailed pencil drawings while Derek O’Connor creates abstract paintings are swathed with layers of colour.
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Often free-hanging and double-sided, her unstretched canvases invite viewers to move between the paintings, to linger and dwell on shifting impressions as they emerge from the surface.
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