The Autumn Exhibition at 2 Dogs Art Space
On
show now October the 8th to 4th of November
Open Sunday 1-3pm
Open Sunday 1-3pm
New Opening times to be advised
Jennifer Lim
Singapore
/Australian
Printmaker
(Peranakan)
This current show brings together a diverse group of outstanding artists exhibiting a disparate range of ideas from within their studio praxis. For example, in the above image there is the wood block print by Jennifer Lim who is currently researching her Singaporean Peranakan family history and as much of it has been built over due to the massive development within Singapore over time, there is limited sporadic remains to be seen being Peranankan ceramic tiles in some areas still attached to the colonial buildings, these designs inspire her woodblock prints.
Ken Wadrop
Western
Australian Painter
Imaginary Landscape
(From all the walking)
Ken Wadrop is an outstanding painter based in South Fremantle, Western Australia who is currently experimenting in Plein Air painting on small rectangular wooden boards, directly observed from the nature on Rottnest Island (a small piece of land nineteen kilometres west from Fremantle).
These two paintings above by Wadrop with their scintillating applied paint traces have a vitality and freshness of paint applications that remind one of Camille Corot’s small early Italian paintings.
There are very few painters in Australia that have a command of painting the structure of the coastal landscape that Wadrop has achieved with this series of artworks, he also acknowledges the Aboriginal deaths in custody in this body of work but that will be seen in an installation at the Earlywork Gallery in South Fremantle in the near future.
There are very few painters in Australia that have a command of painting the structure of the coastal landscape that Wadrop has achieved with this series of artworks, he also acknowledges the Aboriginal deaths in custody in this body of work but that will be seen in an installation at the Earlywork Gallery in South Fremantle in the near future.
Melissa
Nolan Mc Dougall
Painting/Drawing
Western
Australia/New Zealand
Melissa Nolan Mc Dougall drawings remind one of Francisco Goya's dark etchings but Goya's art is not dark but a path of illumination, it allows you to observe, make choices often without collective memories to influence the choice, its hardly dark.
Similarly McDougall's drawings give the audience the chance to engage in objects that have a kind of taboo placed upon like the skull as it appears to be often associated with darkness. But here McDougall brings an observed sobriety allowing the audience to see the beauty in the living and the dead.
Similarly McDougall's drawings give the audience the chance to engage in objects that have a kind of taboo placed upon like the skull as it appears to be often associated with darkness. But here McDougall brings an observed sobriety allowing the audience to see the beauty in the living and the dead.
Sally
Douglas
Water
Colourist
Western
Australian
Sally Douglas must be one of the best watercolorists in
Australia she is outstanding, her research into organic forms around her
house in the northern coastal suburbs of Perth is mesmerizing as two of the
artworks in this show stand testament too!
Ron
Nyisztor
Painter
Western Australia
Ron
Nyisztor runs Nyisztor Studios Melville a major art space in Perth Western
Australia, he is also one of the more prominent painters within that community,
his passion and commitment to art praxis not only for himself but for the
community is exemplary.
