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Dominik Mersch Gallery

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9368 1999

Address: 75 McLachlan Avenue, Rushcutters Bay, NSW 2010 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.dominikmerschgallery.com

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25.01.2022 LOCUST JONES 'Situation Room' Online opening and performance: TONIGHT Friday 24 July Exhibition dates: 24.07 - 09.08.2020 Opening on ZOOM... INSTAGRAM LIVE Locust Jones' solo show 'Situation Room' opens TONIGHT at 6PM with a spoken-word performance accompanied by two drum soloists. Jones' performance will animate the words that are scrawled across his 10-metre scrolls and within his new lightbox works, drawing viewers in with the vivid, confronting language of the everyday news cycle. __ Locust Jones, ‘Bethlehem’, 2020, mixed media on translucent film with face-mounted photographic image on acrylic in framed light box,140 x 80 x 11 cm side angle @ Dominik Mersch Gallery

24.01.2022 '2021 Preview' Group Show DMG Lounge Room The ongoing concerns of Janet Laurence explorations of space, engagement with the natural through a construction of the artificial, the development of ‘museum’ sites, and an elegant negotiation of scientific and natural history motifs are all apparent in her Glasshouse works. These works belong to a larger collection of engagements with the glasshouse theme capturing a tantalising sense of what the whole may become. Jan...et Laurence, ‘Botanical Residues (after the Great Glasshouse)’, 2005, duraclear, photographs on acrylic, 100 x 150 cm. @janetlaurence #preview2021 #janetlaurence #dominikmerschgallery See more

22.01.2022 The old man and the Sea-cret Garden exhibition. Toasty will turn 16.5 soon, the must see exhibition will end soon (October 18th). #wheatenterrier #secretgarden

21.01.2022 So I have this habit to sit opposite the gallery when the year is officially over. A moment of contemplation, relief and gratitude. This year @gary.deirmendjian memorised this very moment...thank you all for supporting the gallery in this tumultuous year!

18.01.2022 Come and visit Dani Marti’s new solo exhibition’Between’ which virtually opened last night. Toasty will w#show you around, well if he’s not sleeping... #danimarti @danimarti0 #wheatensofinstagram #toastishavingagoodtime @ Dominik Mersch Gallery

18.01.2022 Philip Woflhagen’s ‘Three Part Invention no. 2’ is currently hanging in our group show 'Secret Garden'. Wolfhagen's laconic landscape is a sombre, atmospheric depiction of his home in the Midlands of Tasmania. The son of a Tasmanian woolgrower, Wolfhagen’s deeply sensed relationship with the landscape exists between personal memory, place and feeling, which he surrenders to the canvas to facilitate a deeper awareness of ourselves in relation to the natural world. Thou...gh we share an intimate connection with Wolfhagen’s landscapes, his land’s geographies are cryptic, weathered, sclerophyllous, and laconic. They are old and evasive. You have to stay with them. View this work, amongst other works by exhibiting artists who explore the relationship humans have with nature. 'Secret Garden' is now open and runs until 18.10 __ Philip Wolfhagen, ‘Three Part Invention no. 2’, 2020, oil & beeswax on linen, triptych, 46 x 170cm overall __ #philipwolfhagen #secretgarden #dominikmerschgallery #ThreePartInventionno2 #oilandbeeswax #tasmanianmidlands See more

16.01.2022 The virtual tour of Dani Marti 'Between' solo exhibition is now live. Please click the link in our bio to access. Here, you can virtually ‘walk through’ the exhibition and watch artist interviews of Dani speaking about his new bodily works, and have access to high resolution imagery this alluring show. Dani Marti's current show ‘Between’ is an elegant and seductive body of work that explores the idea of a ‘between’ space that is ever-changing and ungraspable. This solo sh...ow includes new minimalist rope works that recall the rhythms and lines of Agnes Martin, seductive beaded installations such as ‘Last Days of Disco (My Sad Captain) and a series of layered reflector works that catch the light and scatter their colours as the viewer walks past. Dani Marti, ‘Last Days of Disco (My Sad Captain)’, 2020, polyester rope, polypropylene and beads on powder coated steel base, 100 cm diameter x 70 cm height and ‘Dust (Between White and Grey)’, 2020, customised corner cube reflectors on aluminium, 4 panels, 210 x 250 cm overall @danimarti0 #danimarti #dominikmerschgallery #between #contemporaryart #wovenart #mysadcaptain #roadreflectors #agnesmartin #ropeart #minimalistart See more

16.01.2022 Reposting @rmitartcollection 2019 acquisition of Jon Cattapan’s hero piece from his show ‘Ghosts of Analogue’ which the painting shares its title. @joncattapan has been described as the ‘poet of the metropolitan spirit’, often interested in the way people gather, form communities, negotiate social spaces, and interact with their environments. As with much of his painting over recent years, Ghosts of Analogue shows the influence of contemporary technology, social debates and ...global culture. Where his palate and approach to form was generally quite distinct and higher-toned during the 1990s, his images have slowly been refined into almost colour-tone abstracts. Here, the vibrant, heavily saturated colours of the background have been overlayed with constellations of dots and grid lines reminiscent of codes, maps and data streams, several of which partially resolve themselves into human figures. Everything is held in a state of suspended flux. Cattapan characterises this as an exploration of social interaction and shared experience in contemporary society, but also, on a formal level, as an interrogation of the possibilities for painting as a medium in a post-digital age. Painting is an analogue, often solitary, act, in an age that has come to be defined by online communication, with our experience of the culture mediated by technology (and yep there’s some irony in us showing you his work this way!). Cattapan is interested in the way gesture and abstraction can act as a response to the post digital age, and whether painting might be a more effective means of exploring expression. Jon Cattapan, Ghosts of Analogue, 2019, oil on canvas, purchased 2019 #rmitartcollection #rmitalumni #painting #contemporaryart #australianart #digitalart #urbanart

11.01.2022 Dominik is currently installing Kate Just’s solo exhibition ‘Armoured’ which opens tomorrow at 6PM here on Instagram live and Zoom. Here Dominik is making the final touches of Just’s work ‘How I Will Change’, a neon inspired by Journalist Benjamin Law’s starting the hashtag #howiwillchange which he proposed a number of ways men could become self reflective allies and change-makers in the Me Too era. Encouraging an allied and constructive male response to the millions of wo...men who used the #MeToo to voice their experiences of sexual harassment or assault, Law asked men to consider their own complicit or potentially radical role in a patriarchal society by using the hashtag #HowIWillChange, which simultaneously reads as a question and a promise. Law proposes men can start by acknowledging their privilege, supporting women or calling out other men on sexism and assault. Kate Just, ’How I Will Change’, 2018, neon sign, 20 x 135 cm, , edition of 3 + 1AP. Photo by Simon Strong. __ @katejustknits #katejust #notokay #armoured #feminist #femininstfan #dominikmerschgallery #neonsign #neonsignart See more

09.01.2022 The 125 year Old Man...enjoying Gary Deirmendjian’s solo exhibition ‘asunder’ #garydeirmendjian #sculpture #wheatenterriersofinstagram

07.01.2022 Hanging in our current group show ‘Secret Garden’, Janet Laurence’s 'Marie Antoinette Arbour' depicts the French monarch’s unadorned secret garden awaiting the seasonal change that will transform it into a spectacle of spring. The weaving flowerless framework reveals the human hands of care and labour of the past arborists who created the structure, much like the care Laurence beckons the viewer to treat nature with. The ... receding linear structure focusses our attention on a garden’s transient space, its journey’s completion resting firmly on the presence of blossoming life. By photographing this structure bare, Laurence poses the question what can this garden be? Janet Laurence, 'Marie Antoinette’s Arbour' from the Verdant series, 2003-2020, Duraclear on acrylic, diptych, 100 x 120 cm overall, edition of 3 + 1AP

06.01.2022 Locust Jones’ art making is so prolific that often times his ink work on paper span over 10 metres with work on both the front and back. This can be connected to Locust's method of chronicling the plenteous everyday news cycle of today's climate. Like animals of history, these unflinching works record our era like a time capsule; from the ubiquitous pandemic and lock down to flower dumping and hoola hoops, all has been recorded by Locust’s unflinching mark making in his Blue Mountains studio. __

04.01.2022 'Weizmann Experiment (You are Here)' Piers Greville’s 'Weizmann Experiment (You Are Here)' combines traditions of the sublime, where mountainous terrains are painted with arresting precision, and a contemporary outlook on the way that we segment Australian landscapes. His striking blue colour palette, ranging rods and concrete grey background are suggestive of both physical and digital measuring tools. The forms of this work are inspired by the discovery of the Mungo Man and... the often clinical way we treat the land in spite being intimately bound with it. You can view and acquire Greville’s work online. Visit our gallery shop to learn about highlighted works and collect from home. _ Piers Greville, ‘Weizmann Experiment (You Are Here)’, 2019, oil, concrete and acrylic on board, diptych, 180 x 120 cm overall @piers_greville #piersgreville #weizmannexperiment #rangingrod #australianart #australianlandscape #contemporaryart See more

01.01.2022 Janet Laurence ‘Conversations with Trees I’ Janet Laurence offers a richly-detailed portrait of a tree, presented in a negative image that has been dye-sublimated onto aluminium. This creates a luminous surface that draws attention to knots and grooves in the bark. Prudence Gibson explains, "This is vegetal time, longer and deeper than human time. Tree root communication, seasonal changes, leaf nodes emitting chemicals these are processes that follow a creeping hand... of time. Janet Laurence, ‘Conversations with Trees I’, 2018, Chromaluxe dye sublimation print on brushed aluminium, 152 x 101 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP #janetlaurence @janetlaurence #dominikmerschgallery #conversationswithtrees #Photography #contemporaryart See more

01.01.2022 RePosted @vaultartmagazine Kate Just ‘Armoured’ is current at Dominik Mersch Gallery. The exhibition brings together significant works from Kate Just’s oeuvre dating between 2012 and 2020. Comprising work in diverse media including neons, knitted works, sewn clothing portraits, and sculpture, 'Armoured' articulates Just’s ongoing concern with feminist self-representation, skin as a subjective texture, and craft as a personal and political tool. The exhibition continues unti...l 19 July. @dominikmerschgallery @katejustknits Image credit: Kate Just, 'Feminist Fan #13 (Valie Export, Action Pants, Genital Panic 1969)', 2015, hand knitted yarn, timber, canvas, 20 x 14 inches

01.01.2022 Dominik Mersch Gallery and Juz Kitson are thrilled to announce their partnership. Juz Kitson’s corporeal installations teeter between the human and animal conditions, through the ambiguous communion between desire and threat; the beautiful and the grotesque. Her works encompass hand-crafted porcelain, reclaimed animal pelts, husks and tusks sourced through the rugged terrain of the Australian landscape. Kitson works between Milton on the south coast of NSW and Jingdezhen, the... heart of porcelain in China. Kitson's works will feature in our upcoming group show 'Secret Garden' curated by Alanna Irwin and Ashleigh Jones which will open for viewing on Friday 11 September. This exhibition leans into human entanglement with nature as existing on two sides of a knife, being a tool that can both harm and heal. @juz_kitson #juzkitson #dominikmerschgallery #jingdezhenporcelain #secretgarden @ Dominik Mersch Gallery

01.01.2022 Janet Laurence has now completed a new commissioned tapestry ‘Hear the Plant Song’ together with the Australian Tapestry Workshop, which has taken almost a year to complete. The 1.56 x 2.7 m tapestry explores the interconnections between all living forms and the environmental challenges of the Anthropocene. The process transformed Laurence’s digital image of layered plants and paint stains on a glass surface into a woven artwork, where the weavers captured the fluid, verda...nt source image using multiple tones of green and complex weaving techniques. ‘The ATW weavers have selected a wide palette of lush greens to create this tapestry, including a high ratio of cotton yarns which are used to create areas of luminosity in the tapestry. ATW yarn dyer Tony Stefanovski has dyed three new wool tones and one new cotton tone for this tapestry to achieve the specific greens for the weavers’ requirements. ‘Hear the Plant Song’, 2020, Janet Laurence, woven by Chris Cochius, Sue Batten, Amy Cornall and Cheryl Thornton, wool, cotton, 1.56 x 2.7m. Photo by ATW. @janetlaurence @austapestry #janetlaurence #heartheplantsong #janetlaurencetapestry #australiantapestryworkshop @ Australian Tapestry Workshop See more