About Art Last Night - Landscapes at King on William & Stacks.

Landscapes. I love landscapes and I love figurative landscapes. Last night even had painted landscapes on glass transferred photographically as prints. Heliographs by Idris Murphy as part of his show Drawing Breath, Works on Paper at King Street Gallery on William. Actually both landscape 'painting' shows I attended last night had a loose photographic connection. Newcomer Stacks Projects in Victoria Street Potts Point/Kings Cross is on the site of the legendary former Graces Camera shop (second hand gear or just plain stolen??? no one ever seemed to know..). Idris's show was opened by Max Cullen who gave a memorable speech about the area the paintings are from and Aboriginal heritage of the land, visions of the land, landscapes.. Michelle Hungerford's exhibition is a highly figurative and colourful exhibition of works on paper. Both shows are on NOW and within walking distance of one another. Links below.

Idris Murphy at King Street Gallery.

IN VIEW - Michelle Hungerford at Stacks Projects Potts Point.

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Leopard Print and Golden Boots - Gallery 9

I love going to art show openings and contrary to the belief of some of my more cynical friends, I am not just there for the free drinkie poos; I am there for the art, honest I am. But its not just fresh new art that you get to see at art openings you get to check out the crowd too and; that crowd differs oh-so-greatly depending on a raft of variables from; gallery status, style of art, the medium itself.. You know, painting, printmaking, photography, design, installations; the many permutations of the aforementioned really do create an infinity of variables in the art and the art crowd and I just love it all. On Wednesday evening it was Gallery 9 in Darlinghurst for 'non objective project one' with a posse of artists I know well from SNO; Lynne Eastaway, Adrian McDonald, Giles Ryder and Kyle Jenkins. No artists portraits this time though; I just went along to enjoy the show.

Of course one just can't ignore a Street Fashion opportunity at Gallery 9 like our man in leopard print skinny pants and shirt with gold boots, blue complimentary scarf and long black coat. Only in Darlinghurst? Well maybe, the detail of the Eiffel Tower and star charms against the leopard print shirt make for a 'nearly' abstract art statement of their own. Great stuff and not something everyone can carry off - that's certainly my idea of real Street Style!

After Gallery 9 the art loving continued at King Street Gallery for Joanna Logue's highly abstracted Australian landscape paintings; actually in some ways not so different from the detail of the shirt above...

Two fabulous shows well worth getting along to.

Gallery 9
non objective project one: 18 July – 11 August 2012

King Street Gallery on William

Joanna Logue

17 July - 11 August 2012