by Beaver Galleries | Dec 11, 2020 | 2020, All
Small works presents a new collection of over eighty small-scale artworks across a range of mediums. The exhibition includes both gallery and guest artists with many artists working in a scale smaller, and often more challenging, than their usual practice. There is a...
by Beaver Galleries | Nov 5, 2020 | 2020, All
Ceramicist Kelly Austin is interested in how an understanding of one object may influence the perception of another; in the ‘friction’ between the recognisable and the abstract; in how placement and proximity, harmony and discord can generate various propositions and...
by Beaver Galleries | Nov 5, 2020 | 2020, All
Dianne Fogwell has long studied the effects of fire on the Australian landscape. In early 2020, she writes “the haze and unburnt particles that laid a blanket of smoke over Canberra were the ghostly indicators of the immense devastation and turmoil . . . These...
by Beaver Galleries | Oct 15, 2020 | 2020, All
“Thornton Walker is an artist who is a teller of stories without a narrative,” wrote Professor Sasha Grishin a few years ago. Attributing to his paintings the “quality of a waking dream into which the beholder is invited to enter and dissolve”, Grishin noted their...
by Beaver Galleries | Oct 15, 2020 | 2020, All
Canberra artist Kirrily Humphries borrows the title of this exhibition from a poem, ‘Crumbling is not an instant’s act’, by the American writer Emily Dickinson. The poem evokes the process of decay and the passing of time, and these are reflected in Kirrily’s...
by Beaver Galleries | Sep 24, 2020 | 2020, All
Judy Holding has established her artistic identity through the development of a personal ‘visual vocabulary’ of symbolic forms. In particular, her depictions of trees and birds in sculpture and on paper reflect her abiding love of the diverse flora and fauna of...
