In Between, Thompson presents a number of paintings and a collection of new works in mixed media. With these newer works she has employed stencils in various, evolving ways, resulting in an evolution of her use of line, negative space, and monochrome composition. The works represent an engagement with ideas and feelings arising from Thompson's interest in critical theory, mythology, and psychology, and her compassionate curiosity about the complex human experience.
Today, while modern photographic means thrive, tintype photography has revived as a fine art form in the 21st century. Rainey and Predika's exhibition allows us to return to the art of photography, viewing a genuine moment that requires several minutes to capture - an exercise in patience and commitment from both the photographer and the subject.
Inspired by the delicate balance of nature and relationships, Macdonald assembles the raw materials consisting of found, natural and recycled elements.
Benschop is a multidisciplinary contemporary visual artist, creative writer and poet. Her body of work includes found object assemblage & intervention, immersive environments, performative invitations, and works on canvas and paper. With Tender Presence, Lisa Benschop invites the viewer to witness and participate in the current research of her ongoing project The L. S. Benschop Institute for the Preservation & Veneration of Imagination & Nostalgia.
Mark Holliday and Aaron Sidorenko present works illustrating their personal relationships with the natural terrain, be it the rolling hills of a cycle route or the intimate topography of our skin. With their use of encaustic oil painting, the artists retrace some very early steps in the long history of people combining pigments with mediums to make them stick to a surface and tell a story.
With Rewind, Sandy Kunze explores a deep connection to the trees that surround us, and deepens an inspired relationship with her process. For this exhibition, Kunze has embraced a mode of working with materials that is more about exploring, feeling, and sensing than representing a form or making an image. With wood, raw cotton, ink and wax, Kunze enters into a conversation with the trees and the altered landscape, and gives shape to complex ideas about loss, resilience, transformation, and the material evidence of life. Rewind is both memorial and reincarnation, devotional and document, its works both sombre and tender.
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