Gotham artist Mel Dare is exhibiting 4 works called Constructing Memory at Peek-a-Boo Gallery from the 10th - 23rd October 2016. For more than 16 years Dare has been interested in the mechanics of meaning. This body of work investigates how memory is constructed and how it relates to personal narrative. Memories are mothers, lovers, bullies on a rampage. Protectors, seducers, tormentors. Drowning, smothering, saving us again and again. Images flash - pain, pleasure, ambivalence. Held in a present long since past, reminding. Too Close to See, acrylic paint and ink on Belgian linen, 20 x 15cm 2015
Showing from 11-24 September at Peek-a-Boo is Gotham artist Andrew Nicholls’ A Shipwreck (2015), an experimental work combining his drawing and photographic practices. Over the past fifteen years Nicholls has frequently utilised aquatic imagery to represent excessive desire and emotion, a common trope in the romantic tradition. A Shipwreck is a tribute to Gerlicault’s work of the same name (1817-18), Nicholls’ favourite artwork in London’s National Gallery in which the maritime disaster of the title is relocated to the background, leaving the focus on an eroticized male body. Andrew Nicholls 'A Shipwreck' (2015)
Currently at Peek-a-Boo gallery are three works by Clare McFarlane, from her series 'You Are Here'. Clare McFarlane 'You Are Here' acrylic and spray paint on canvas.
Currently at Peek-a-Boo is 'Dead Meat' from Ian Williams' solo show 'Open World' at Free Range Gallery last year. More info here http://www.iwilliams.com.au/open-world.html
"Portrait of a Man" is part of a portrait series in progress titled "The Tribe". Its subjects are diverse people encountered in daily life, whether face-to-face or through the internet, and are individuals who hold dear their social liasons and tribal identfications. The project addresses the role of contemporary portrait painting within the wider context of the tradition of portraiture, taking into consideration traditionally preferred yet exhausted subjects, in addition to looking at how technical practices have changed.
We are now accepting proposals for exhibitions at Peek-a-Boo gallery from May - Nov 2016, which is located at the entrance to Gotham Studios in the Perth Cultural Centre. Please visit http://www.gothamstudios.org/peek-a-boo.html for more information about the space and how to apply :) Image from our current show 'Glory' by Patrick Doherty & Cherish Marrington.
A collection of erotic works produced across 2015-2016. Doherty and Marrington took turns creating sketches that reacted to the progressing context in one another's work, resulting in the unique form of horror shown through the tiny peepholes behind a patterned drape. Only fragments of the works in Glory can be seen within a glimpse.
Currently at Peek-a-Boo Gallery is Jarrad Martyn's 'Easy Pace'. 'The painting Easy Pace explores my experiences with Spree Park, a deserted theme park in Berlin. The theme parks motif of a fallen dinosaur has been combined with imagery sourced from a variety of travel brochures. Through collage and painting, the meaning of these motifs is rearranged and reorganised, to create landscapes that operate between the real and the imagined. Standing in front of the dinosaur, as if posing for a photograph, is a 17th century European plague doctor. In contemporary culture the doctor’s beak like mask has become synonymous with costumed events. Long removed from its original function to protect, the masks are now synonymous with being a tourist commodity across Southern Europe. A non descript Greek ruin is situated behind the figure, encouraging associations to the institution and accepted methods to undertake an activity. By collapsing the distinctions between figuration and expressionism, a sense of destabilisation is created. The flat modular aesthetic of the tourist imagery is transformed into a landscape that is in a constant state of flux between motion and erasure, suggesting how fractured contemporary travel has become, through the removal of first hand experiences'. Jarrad Martyn, Easy Pace, 2016, oil on canvas 55 x 82 cm. Jarrad Martyn, Easy Pace, 2016, oil on canvas 55 x 82 cm.
Portrait of a woman is the first painting of a portrait series titled The Tribe. Its subjects are diverse people encountered in daily life, locally and internationally through the Internet, and are individuals who hold dear their social liaisons and tribal identifications. The project addresses the role of contemporary portrait painting within the wider context of the traditions of portraiture, taking into consideration traditionally preferred yet exhausted subjects in addition to looking at how technical practices have changed. Exhibition viewable at Peek-a-Boo Gallery from 5th - 18th Feb 2016 http://www.gothamstudios.org/emily-ten-raa.html Portrait of a Woman, oil on canvas, 100 x 75cm 2016
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AuthorGotham Studios Archives
November 2022
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