Back in SydneyLand - Art All Around & Fashion at The Strand..

Yes back making the gallery rounds in Sydney, seeing lovely work and catching up with friends and sharing a few drinks as well. And the best place for a few glasses this week was the Veuve Clicquot bar / meet the designers night at The Strand Arcade. And you know what, The Strand really must be right up there as one of the most beautiful covered arcades in the world - yes truly, so don't forget to give it some thoughtful appreciation next time you go wandering through..

July saw the lunch of new -f-i-l-t-e-r- gallery at the previous Badger and Fox space; 201 Albion Street with Peter Maddison and Ian Geraghty moving the focus to contemporary art. Fridays and Saturday only. Scroll DOWN for more Shows & Pictures..

Peter Maddison and Ian Geraghty Opening of -f-i-l-t-e-r- gallery.

If you have ever wondered what Reductive or Non Objective art is all about; LINE AND SPACE: curated by Suzie Idiens ON NOW at Crawford gallery is a great show to access this style of work. Lynne Eastaway, PJ Hickman, Annelies Jahn, Pollyxenia joannou, Brent Hallard, Susan Andrews and Louise Blyton. A very nice show indeed.

PJ Hickman, Annelies Jahn, Suzie Idiens (curator), Susan Andrews, Lynne Eastaway.

Two stylish young women at “HER” M2 gallery.

Nyk Sykes, Catherine Hourihan, Dan “Ears” O'toole and Jessica Matino come together for “HER” at M2

Veuve Clicquot bar / meet the designers night at The Strand Arcade.

Anna and Anita; Harlequin Animalia by Anna Wheeler at Janet Clayton Gallery.

Congratulations to Anna Wheeler on another beautiful and shamelessly colourful showing of her paintings at Janet Clayton Gallery - On NOW - I loved it; and as you can see I was not alone!

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Clouds Oceans and Diagonal Lines - Art in Sydney this Week.

I mean really what are the chances of seeing two shows, two consecutive nights; both painting and both dealing with the elements of nature, both within a square boundary and both with visually compelling diagonal lines as integral to the compositions?

Adrian McDonald, AHAB:Reading Moby Dick.

I would have said zero chance at all so it looks like I will need to update my art actuarial table for a start. The first show was Adrian McDonald's show AHAB:Reading Moby Dick, and while I was ready for the lines in Adrian's work I was not really expecting the series of grey scale abstractions that are the ground.. or ocean (or whale skin) that the two crossing lines rest upon. Though complex pattern is a kind of leitmotif in much of McDonald's works and one of the great joys when viewing them, I wasn't really expecting a combination quite like this. The following night I found myself at China Heights gallery for Pushing Past by Brooklyn Whelan, his first Sydney solo since Heavy Weather in late 2015. This show quite shocked me though in a positive way. This time it was the addition of a very bold and straight diagonal line punching right through the familiar Whelan cloudscape.

While I am aware that the similarities between the shows are somewhat superficial, it is curious to come across two artists working from very different art backgrounds finding similar resolution, and my finding them one night after the next. So "do yourself a favour;" go check them out; meditative and beautiful to look at. Water, cloud, lines and very tight palettes.
Pushing Past is on this weekend only at China Heights Gallery 12 - 5.
AHAB:Reading Moby Dick 30 March 25 April 2017 at Crawford Gallery.

AHAB:Reading Moby Dick - (apologies for the poor image quality).

“Between black and white, there is an ocean of grey”  Adrian McDonald AHAB:Reading Moby Dick.
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