Group Art Show December 7-12
INVITING ARTISTS TO CONTRIBUTE WORKS.
Deliver by Monday 7th December between 12-6pm
(We are open every day 12-6pm)
(Only $25/work)
2020 End of Year Group Art Show and Xmas party at Tap Gallery
WEDNESDAY 9TH DECEMBER 6PM
Wine, food & entertainment will be provided
An associated exhibition of Head On Photo Festival 2020
More information at www.headon.com.au
Full 2020 program www.headon.com.au/2020festival
Mon 19th – Sun 1st November. Opening: Wed 21st 5 -8 pm
Selected works are now available for viewing and sale in the online gallery.
Anna Wheeler graduated from the National Art School in the year 2000.She is a painter currently living in Darlinghurst who has had over 10 solo exhibitions since art school. She describes her painting as abstract figurative.She loves colour in her paintings and of course in her life!
Some of her favourite artists are Basquiat, Willem De Kooning, Chagall and Frida Kahlo. She says “I paint mainly from my imagination and my dreams of this wild world we live in! I let my brush do the talking.I use energetic brush strokes and wild colour.I like the paint thickly and richly layered and textured.
This current body of work has a number of influences such as Feminism, the Australian bushfires of 2020 and of course the current global pandemic Corona Virus.Her painting made this year “Pink Sphinx in Corona Times” is a dreamlike image of how suddenly the Corona Virus was “everywhere,surrounding all of us.The Sphinx is surrounded by Corona but yet she remains strong and beautiful.It is a painting saying there is hope.We will get through this..”
Anna has been a finalist in many group art prizes such as the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship,Mosman Art Prize,Lloyd Rees Art Prize and Waverly Art Prize.She is in Australian collections aswell as international collections such as France,England,China and Thailand.
Anna was exhibited in the International Women’s Day Prize at TAP GALLERY twice. She received 2nd prize one year and this year received 1st prize for the People’s Choice Award.
Anastassia Balachova also studied at National Art School, has had many solo exhibitions and has been prolific in her work. More to come about Anastassia.
See you all at the opening
Wednesday 21st October 6pm.
Covid safe practices are adhered to during the exhibition.
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Vee is a multi-media artist, playwright, painter, and performer. Her resume includes volumes of work as a visual artist, singer-songwriter and short film maker. Her plays have been performed in Short and Sweet Sydney, and her music profiles Ana Key and the Underdogs (Squeeze Records) and Matriarch. She is a graduate of Wollongong University’s Creative Arts Course and since 1987 has sold a number of works through solo and group exhibitions. She has previously run Mamapalooza events in Sydney generating more creativity for mothers in the arts.
Vee, unconventional by nature, portrays the unusual importance of domesticity in her paintings. Having juggled a busy life of going to work, mothering and housework, her ideas on canvas portray a snapshot of ordinary life, but with an absurd tone. There is often a political statement, subtle or wildly over the top. Kitchen sinks, washing baskets, mops, brooms and vacuum cleaners, all taking the limelight and delighting the eye with humour, colour and imagination. But underlying the playful subject matter could be a controversial discourse about housework, the division of labour, and women’s continuing efforts to achieve equality.
“Housework is still overwhelmingly done by women even though many also work like their husbands, and most childcare is still women’s responsibility. The division of housework is politics at play in the home…Housework should be paid work, like all other jobs but, …”housework is considered trivial, playing second fiddle to “paid” work.” The National, 2014
Vee doesn’t see her paintings as being political. She says they are really about the object itself. She finds beauty in the actual object, the mop, the broom or the vacuum cleaner, but she does admit giving status to the object. Her elevation of household items to be seen as greater in themselves, than being taken for granted, is a metaphor for the status of housework, as well as status of women, housewives, and mothers.
Whatever you see in Vee’s work, whether it’s political or not, the images will have a lasting impact.
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