QCA Thursdays: 3 February 2022

QCA Thursdays: 3 February 2022

We invite you to join us to celebrate new exhibitions from Madi Dufficy, Sunday Jemmott, Ebony Wilmott, Sharon & Nellie Peoples on Thursday, 3rd February from 5.30pm at QCA Galleries, South Bank.

Webb Gallery | Propagate: Nellie Peoples & Sharon Peoples

Propagate examines the everydayness, the labour and social relationships of gardens through drawings and small works relating to the body. Nellie and Sharon Peoples begin with an individual dialogue between landscapes and practices as makers. These conversations evolve within their own work, as well as with one another. They exchange ideas as they would cuttings from their gardens. These conversation plant seeds of ideas into one anothers design thinking.

Grey Street Gallery | Haute Rococo: Madi Dufficy & Sunday Jemmott

Haute Rococo combines Rococo colours, fabric, painting, and soft sculpture to create a playful disruption of art historical conventions. Instead, celebrating romantic and frivolous aesthetics associated with femininity. Showcasing work by Madelaine Dufficy and Sunday Jemmott, ruffles, drapery, lush textures, and rich colour fill Grey Street Gallery across paintings and space activated sculptures. This whimsical and reflexive response to the Rococo period (1730s-1770s) implicates the traditional format and airy lighting of the gallery, mischievously jesting at the historical art conventions the artists aim to reframe. The interest in the Rococo comes from the criticism of the style due to softened, feminine colours and extravagant excess. Rococo being perceived as too feminine to be taken seriously sparks a need to disrupt the power structures that direct away from the feminine in historical and contemporary art.

Project Gallery | Natural History Revised: Ebony Wilmott

Natural History Revised is a print series which documents the environment through frottages of various ecological materials collected across Australia, reflecting on the unique textures of geographical spaces. The sari, symbolic of the artist's cultural identity, is recontextualised as the support for these prints, visualising the intersection between her Sri Lankan background and lived experience in Australia. The site - specific works act as an examination of place and the textural traces of the landscape, articulating an engagement with the physicality of space and the contextual overlapping of nature and culture.


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