Inspiring New Audiences

HOW TO GAIN A FRESH PERSPECTIVE ABOUT ‘CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICES’

Last month, I taught another short 4 week course for the U3A, Melbourne City Campus. This year I offered: Contemporary Sculptors (Australian & International) and Their Art Practices.

This particular class focused on developing one’s visual literacy and a new perspective on Contemporary Art Practice in general. We looked at cultural influences, experimentation with materials, climate art movements, site-specific sculptures vs. design for design’s sake. In the fourth week, we go as a class to a selected art exhibition which I feel relates to the topic of the course’s focus, in this case Contemporary Sculpture. I love interacting with my U3A students as they teach me as much if not more than I could ever share with them.

The exhibition we selected was EVA ROTHSCHILD’s exhibition held at Melbourne’s Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, (ACCA) entitled KOSMOS. For more Info: https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/eva-rothschild/… be inspired go and experience the show for yourself. We loved it.

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Avec Pleasure loves highlighting the works of the talented and inspired artists who are working with new approaches to contemporary art practice.

I have known MERRICK BELYEA for almost twenty years and this month I am highlighting the wonderful body of works ‘ANTHROPOCENE LANDSCAPES’ which he is about to shown in Sydney at the MAY Gallery. I strongly recommend a visit to this show while it is up. You won’t be disappointed. His work is both poetic and insightful.

Avec Pleasure presents Merrick Belyea

‘Merrick Belyea’s paintings are deeply focused on the curious human appetite for destruction. Environmental concerns are central to his recent paintings, referring to a potential for devastation, pointing to a future of mechanical scarification of the landscape. Paring back the veneer of previously prepared paint layers reveal the detritus of process and the fragility of surface.’

Merrick Belyea focuses on the curiously human appetite for destruction in his work. Environmental concerns are central to recent paintings that refer to a potential for devastation and offer a portent to future mechanical scarification of the landscape. Paring back the veneer of previously prepared paint layers reveal the detritus of process and the fragility of surface.’

11 - 29 March 2020. MAY SPACE, Waterloo, Sydney (Opening drinks Saturday 14 March, 3-5pm) www.mayspace.com.au. If you are interested in finding out more please send us an email at: [email protected]