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Sutton Gallery

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9416 0727

Address: 254 Brunswick Street Fitzroy 3065 Victoria, Australia 3065 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://suttongallery.com.au/

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21.01.2022 Helga Groves' exhibition 'Patterns from the heart of a planet' closes this Saturday 14 December. As survivors of planetary evolution over 4.5 billion years, meteorites are the dark lights that hold the memory of our solar system. An exhibition at the Natural History Museum in Paris prompted the artist’s current study of meteorites. In this series Groves casts her focus on these extra-terrestrial rocks to explore patterns related to geological phenomena. The key subject here a...re the crystalline structures known as Widmanstätten patterns, occurring in octahedrite iron meteorites and some pallasites. [2] Once formed in the core of asteroids, they result from a cooling process that spans millions of years. These abstract patterns reveal how two alloys kamacite and taenite bands called ‘lamellae’ interleave. Images: Andrew Curtis Further information: https://suttongallery.com.au//patterns-from-the-heart-of-/

16.01.2022 McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery have unveiled John Meade's monumental new sculpture, 'Love Flower' on the Peninsula Link! Created for the Southern Way Commission, this charming work is based on an an Ikebana arrangement with an Agapanthus flower - an uncompromisingly tough perennial (technically classed as a weed in Frankston) that gets it name from the Greek 'Agape' meaning 'Love' and 'Anthos' meaning 'Flower'. While Agapanthus usually stand around 2 to 3 feet in height, Meade's 'Love Flower' plays with scale and expectation, stretching elegantly over the Cranbourne Road exit at 10 metres tall. Night image courtesy Eric J. Berkelmans.

13.01.2022 Today is the last day to see Liang Luscombe's new video work, 'Sweaty Scales'. The gallery is open until 5pm. Sweaty Scales is a single-channel video installation which critiques the presentation of racial fetishes, while still permitting fantasies. Through a series of vignettes, the video tells the story of a pair of lovers: an Asian American woman named Lisa and her Caucasian American lover named Oliver who sweats profusely throughout the story. During their romance, Lisa, struggles to find her own sexual identity in relation to the ever-present image of the Asian women as the deceitful, sexually aggressive dragon lady or to the innocent lotus blossom. Image: Liang Luscombe, 'Sweaty Scales', HD video, 29min 26sec duration, installation view. Photo: Andrew Curtis.

12.01.2022 Today is the last day to see 'for you broccoli', a group show including Colleen Ahern, Amanda Marburg and Lisa Radford. The gallery is open until 5pm. Seemingly absurd yet art historically laden, the theme of broccoli provided the ideal starting point for the artists to investigate their shared concerns, while still allowing space for experimentation and humour. Colleen Ahern appears courtesy Neon Parc. Image: Lisa Radford, 'Le Broccolini feat. King Knightshade, Blue Singlets et la Famille du Chou', 2019, Phil Ridgway: green buckam solander box, ceramic mushroom, Sir Joshua Reynolds: postcard of Mrs Siddons as the THE TRAGIC MUSE, David Egan: Aspirations broccolini and acrylic on board, walnut, one blue chesty bond singlet, yellow vest, 16pp script for the exhibition, one bronze broccoli, dimensions variable. Photo: Andrew Curtis.

09.01.2022 Laresa Kosloff's new work, , recently launched online as part of Buxton Contemporary's Light Source Commissions. The film can now be viewed in its entirety via their website.

08.01.2022 Across the globe, researchers and medical professionals are making critical breakthroughs in developing a COVID-19 vaccine. As we move towards a better understanding of this virus and the body’s immune response, we’re implementing some temporary changes to our business to help prevent transmission. As part of our response to these new challenges, Sutton Gallery will use its existing Viewing Room platform to present a series of focused online exhibitions. Through solo and grou...p presentations, audiences will be able to discover new works, and to revisit key moments that have shaped the practices of our artists. We are also working with our colleagues in the public sector to enhance digital access to institutional exhibitions by Sutton Gallery artists that have been suspended or cut short due to the COVID-19 response. Stay tuned and don't forget to follow us on Instagram: @suttongallerymelbourne. More details to be announced shortly. See more

07.01.2022 With access to Jon Campbell's physical exhibition temporarily suspended, you can now explore 'Gone to see a man about a dog' online. This viewing room presentation features a new text by curator Lisa Sullivan, alongside available works and a video walk-through. Jon Campbell is represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.

06.01.2022 For our friends in Sydney - today is the last day to see Stephen Bush's exhibition at Darren Knight Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of works made in collaboration with long-time friend Jon Campbell, part of a wider collaboration that includes Campbell's show . For all those in areas with COVID restrictions, - head to the link in our bio to watch a video walkthrough (video by @fatografi_insta). Image 1:... Stephen Bush and Jon Campbell, 'Double Life', 2009/2020, Enamel on linen, 76.5 x 86.5cm Image 2: Stephen Bush and Jon Campbell, ‘Collaborative Works’, 2020, Installation view, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney #StephenBush #JonCampbell #SuttonGallery #SuttonGalleryMelbourne #DarrenKnightGallery

06.01.2022 Jane Trengove's exhibition 'Ceci n'est pas' continues until Saturday 14 December. This installation extends Jane Trengove’s ongoing project Painting Element Series which began in 2005. Here, she plays off a simple geometrical circle against the evocation of the real and celestial moon, and pays her dues to Rene Magritte’s work focused on the language of painting and his renowned Ceci n’est pas une pipe (The Treachery of Images, 1929). With each iteration in this sequence,... one element from the primary painting tool kit is applied to broader discourses in painting and photography, representation and abstraction, perception and reality. Trengove does not literally present the chosen element, (in this case space), but she does allude to its intrinsic nature. Whilst reviewing painting traditions of the past, her intention is to claim an explorative place for painting as credible and relevant in contemporary visual culture. Images: Andrew Curtis Further information: https://suttongallery.com.au/exhibitions/ceci-nest-pas/

06.01.2022 We are delighted to participate in the Melbourne Art Fair Viewing Rooms, presenting a selection of paintings by Helen Johnson, George Egerton-Warburton and Ann Debono. On view are three stunning artworks by Debono, to be included in her forthcoming gallery exhibition 'Diachronic', due to open this August. Also on view is George Egerton-Warburton's, 'Now-and-then-industrial complex' (2019), a central feature of his recent exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art - alongside... two paintings made in collaboration with artist Helen Johnson. Completing the selection is Johnson's new painting, 'Sisters' (2020). The Viewing Rooms are open to the public from Wednesday 3 June - Sunday 7 June 2020. All enquiries: [email protected] Image: Helen Johnson, Sisters, 2020, acrylic on linen, 46 x 61cm

04.01.2022 Congratulations to Kate Beynon, whose painting 'With Tudo and the robe', 2020, has been selected as a finalist in the Archibald Prize. Kindred spirits, protective guardians and shaman figures often feature in Beynon's work. In this self-portrait, the artist appears with her family's 13-year old rescue staffy-cross, Tudo. The garment she wears is a painted, soft-sculptural costume work made earlier in 2020 titled 'Robe for the Blue Shaman Guardian'. Beynon drew inspiration fro...m a range of sources including the botanical and anatomical imagery of 17th century artist Yun Bing from the Qing Dynasty, the surrealist painter Remedios Varo Uranga, as well as the stories and symbols from her Malaysian-Chinese/Welsh ancestry. Image: Kate Beynon, With Tudo and the robe, 2020, acrylic on wood, 40 x 35.5cm. #KateBeynon #ArtGalleryofNSW #AGNSW #ArchibaldPrize Art Gallery of New South Wales

04.01.2022 Congratulations to Karen Black who has been selected as a finalist in the Archibald Prize. Karen Black has painted fellow artist and poet, the late Madonna Staunton, whose practice spanned five decades and included writing, collage, assemblage and painting. She says, "I’d wanted to paint Madonna since 2014 after seeing her paintings at QAGOMA. I felt she’d been overlooked as one of our great women artists and wanted to put her in the spotlight. When I discovered she wa...s the same age as my mother and also had dementia, it gave me a more personal reason to meet her. I visited her in the nursing home and was inspired to see her still working on various paintings. She was still outspoken, yet I could see a certain introspect in her manner, especially her eyes. She sat on her bed talking, so I situated the painting in her room. When I mixed the paint on the canvas a blob of paint hung over her eye, giving the portrait that feeling of introspection I’d recognised. I used shapes, referencing her assemblages and collages and painted it in the pale colours she was wearing on the day. It reminded me of time fading away. We lost Madonna on 16th December 2019." Image: Karen Black, 'Madonna', 2020, Oil on canvas, 97 x 81.5cm #KarenBlack #SuttonGallery #SuttonGalleryMelbourne #ArchibaldPrize #ArtGalleryofNSW Art Gallery of New South Wales