Pastiche: Graydon Gallery New Farm 2-14 October 2012

Together with Cherie Durant, Russell Fuller, Jennii Gould, Sue Hill, Rose Moxham, Jenny Schuhart and Todd Whisson I am having an exhibition at Graydon Gallery New Farm.

Pastiche: it’s all about the rhythm

How do you put together the works of eight artists with no common theme, no unifying subject matter, and no common style? For a start, you give the show a name that reflects the heady mix of conjunctions, incongruities, the literal and the surreal. You call it Pastiche. “It’s a bit post post-modern,” says painter Joy McDonald, one of the exhibiting artists. “Truly a pastiche – we use different materials, we’re figurative, minimalist, abstract, there are story book illustrations, ceramics and sculptures.”
 “We’re a disparate bunch and we’re all mates,” says Todd Whisson, whose recent exhibition at Red Hill Gallery was a sell-out.  “We talk to each other and bounce ideas around. Now we’ve come together in this exhibition and it’s our paintings that talk to each other.”
 The hanging is almost a curatorial exercise. “Even though individual works have their own integrity and beauty, you don’t want to put a piece next to another that screams at it, or buries it,” says sculptor Russell Fuller.  “You’ve got to spend time with them all, see how they interact.”
 Pastiche: It’s about the dynamics of colour and form. The way they interact sets up a rhythm. There are different beats, but it’s the rhythm that holds them all together.
 

Pastiche, opens October 2, until October 14, 2012. 11am-5pm.  Drinks 3pm, Saturday, October 6.  Graydon Gallery, 29 Merthyr Rd New Farm, Enquiries 0415261072.