AMANDA SCHUNKER | We Are All Shady Schists
Discover an expansive showcase of original artworks by emerging and established artists, spanning Australia and beyond.
Courtney McClelland navigates the complicated experience of existing within a body — the restlessness under the skin, the poetics of sensation. Familiar in its form yet multifarious in its translations, the body is a repository of histories, desires, intimacies, and vulnerabilities that articulate our corporeal being. Sometimes celebratory, sometimes escapist, McClelland’s figures reveal their connective […]
With equal measure of fascination and concern, William Versace began ‘Future Unearthed’ with his own creations of plastiglomerates. Known colloquially as ‘plastic gems’, these naturally fused anthropogenic rocks are made from a mixture of natural debris and plastic, and are found embedded in the earth’s surface. As a physical marker of human impact on the […]
Personal memory, historical knowledge, and ways of remembering take form in André de Vanny’s latest body of work, negotiating between the weight of the past and the instability of the present. Both linear and cyclical, Mantle unfolds as a repository of memory, storytelling, and iconography through which de Vanny explores how we recall and make […]
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“We are living through an age where our lens on the world must constantly shift and refocus as new ideas, crises, social movements and the natural environment rapidly change," says Waters. "A level of poetic consciousness is required to navigate this new world and at times hopeless landscape. Orpheus was a poet, a prophet and a musician in Greek mythology who at the end of his life worshipped no god but the sun."
"For these images, I wanted Orpheus to be a woman who is glistening oracle-like, asleep on a dark sandscape. The viewer is invited to embrace their own mortality and energy for change simultaneously. To dare to be one’s own illumination – like a transient point of light in a night sky.”
View Lilli Waters` available works via the link in bio.
Featured work: `Deep Hours` 2021
A pair of Diana Miller works sit beautifully in this nook by @lawlessandmeyerson.
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"Here, the everyday becomes strange and brittle," says Hannah Quinlivan. "What once moved freely is fixed into skeletal form, leaving behind the outline of memory. What remains is a trace, both present and gone."
`Ichthyoskeleton`, 2024, is woven from aluminium and wire - a work that holds both loss and recognition, the residue of something once lived with easily. Line made solid, movement made still, shadow made part of the sculpture itself.
View Hannah Quinlivan`s available works via the link in bio.
Featured work: `Ichthyoskeleton` 2024
Amanda Schunker`s latest body of work `We Are All Shady Schists` is currently on view in our Woolloomooloo gallery.
Visit us today, Saturday 13 June. Here till 5pm.
In a world of turmoil,
of prejudice and greed,
Would it be so difficult to simply heed
Mother Nature’s call for peace and harmony?
“Spend time with me,” she beckons quietly.
We are abundant with life and curiosity.
Surrender your black screens, your egos, and fast pace;
Let the anxiety and the need to dominate lose its place.
Black, white, yellow, green-
The immigrant, the outcast, the refugee-
Dissipate, appreciate, congregate, celebrate.
Our imperfections,
metamorphosed over deep time;
sedimentary layers
of a collective design.
We are the grit that didn’t break.
So look to the stone, the fractures and twists,
and see ourselves:
For we are all Shady Schists.
Exhibition on show through till Saturday 20 June. Explore available works via link in bio.
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André de Vanny`s canvases begin outdoors.
Stained, folded, dragged, sanded and scored over several months, the natural evaporation process pushes pigments across the surface, generating organic marks held within the weave of the canvas itself.
`The Mulberry Tree`, 2024, draws from his childhood on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria - the arid bushland surrounding Lake Eppalock reimagined in burnt ochre, sap greens, russet coppers and dark umber.
A dual-sided work, suspended rather than hung, it exists in space the way a memory does - present on all sides.
View André de Vanny`s available works via the link in bio.
Featured work: `The Mulberry Tree` 2024
ART CONSULTANCY HIGHLIGHT.
Curatorial+Co. worked alongside BVN Architecture to curate the art collection across several floors of shared workspace within the iconic Queen & Collins building in Melbourne CBD.
The collection brings together works by Melissa Boughey, Diana Miller, Amanda Schunker, Kerrie Oliver, Ellen McKenna and Janet Elizabeth Thomas - each selected to complement the character of the space and create a considered environment for the people who work within it every day.
Explore our full Art Consultancy portfolio via the link in bio.
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Designer: @bvnarchitecture
Client: GPT