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Beaver Galleries is Canberra’s largest and longest-established privately owned commercial art gallery. The gallery exhibits and promotes the work of a select group of renowned and emerging contemporary Australian artists. Under the direction of owners Martin and...
Voyagers’ Tales: Labillardière

Voyagers’ Tales: Labillardière

Nicola Dickson’s paintings explore perceptions of the natural world of Australia, with this exhibition drawing inspiration from the Bruni d’Entrecasteaux expedition to Australia and the Pacific in 1791-94 and, in particular, the records ofthe naturalist Jacques Julien...
Sydney Contemporary 2017

Sydney Contemporary 2017

Despite the diversity of Thornton Walker’s subject matter and technique, his interest in the dynamics of composition, perspective and spatial depth remains constant. While maintaining a focus on formal painterly concerns, Thornton incorporates subject matter recalled...
Sydney Contemporary 2017

Sydney Contemporary 2017

Lucienne Rickard is an extraordinarily talented artist from Hobart whose work is marked by a sharp eye for detail, zealous imagination and a fastidious, almost obsessive, mode of execution. Lucienne’s recent drawings are a continuation of the themes she has been...
Sydney Contemporary 2017

Sydney Contemporary 2017

Kirrily Humphries is an emerging artist based in Canberra whose exquisitely detailed paintings take months to render. Using multiple layers of translucent oil glazes applied over time, Kirrily’s pieces become luminous with soft detail and subtle variations of light,...
Refraction

Refraction

Refraction is defined as ‘the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different’. Bearing this definition in mind, and thinking of an exhibition based on something...