Artist honours equine beauty
CURRENT regional group and solo exhibitions confront environmental issues, define equine beauty, look at location and identity, affirm the power of love and celebrate floral harmonies in bodies of work that, at times, border on visual overload despite their heart-felt messages.
THE WARWICK ART GALLERY
is featuring Tainted Landscapes III, the most recent of a series of sequential exhibitions by Chris Fletcher, David LeMay, and Mick Pospischil.
The artists navigate a denuded landscape that has been compromised and altered by the intrusion of industry and human intervention.
From scarred tracts of land, old mine shafts, and gaunt silos to road trips through farmland transitioning to mining sites, the drawings and paintings carry a sober message.
Fletcher juxtaposes the carcasses of cars abandoned in the bush with the dramatic, natural sculptures of massive rock formations and coal mine patterns.
Pospischil’s confident mark making and the velvety charcoal surfaces in some works invite close inspection, however, the sheer volume and proximity of the drawings challenge individual appreciation.
LeMay’s paintings with their enigmatic titles and subtle, mostly tertiary palette offer moody, introspective statements of place.
Inscrutable Rothko-like horizontal bands of muted colour carry hints of distance and the illusion of space.
While Fletcher and Pospischil document a certain linear reality, LeMay proffers an emotional response to circumstance.
The different visual approaches create a coherent voice of concern and respect for a “planet under siege”.
THE ORANGE WALL GALLERY
at the Warwick Art Gallery is hosting The Habit of Horses, a series of paintings by West Australian equine artist, Roslyn Nolen.
The works honour the strength, grace, and beauty of the horse in individual studies.
The exhibition is perfectly timed to coincide with the World Cup Polocrosse event in Warwick (April 22-28) and includes action paintings of polocrosse matches.
There will be an artist talk on Wednesday, April 24 at 10.00am.
THE ROSALIE GALLERY
in Goombungee is hosting a pop up video presentation as part of The Regions, the local Regional Arts Development Fund Project managed by Alexandra Lawson Gallery.
The Finding Space videos are the creation of Kirsty Lee and feature vignettes from Hampton, Millmerran, and Goombungee.
Lee’s background in dance, performance art and photography has informed the works which look at identity shaped and defined by location.
THE LOCKYER VALLEY ART GALLERY
in Gatton is showing two bodies of work by Pam Finlay.
The first, Love is all you need: and other works recalls the artist’s joy on her wedding day in a series of paintings in romantic pastel colours that celebrate treasured memories.
The second, Everything’s coming up flowers, shows Finlay’s pleasure in the beauty and delicacy of flowers.
While the exhibition borders on the cloying and sentimental it also swoons with incipient happiness and the artist’s delight in sharing feelgood moments.