The Potter Gallery of Art – Melbourne University

“Looking at the work of these two great Australian photographers together is enlightening; they were often shooting the same subjects, or pursuing subjects and pictorial effects in similar ways,” curator Shaune Lakin.

Max and Olive: The photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain.

This is a poignant photographic exhibition of 65 iconic, vintage Australian prints, taken by Olive Cotton and Max Dupain. It is the first exhibition to look at the professional practice of these talented photographers. It also examines their unique overlap of shared studios, friendship, artistic influences and, briefly, a marriage. Both photographers experimented with ‘modernist‘
photographic techniques, which led the way to exciting new developments in composition and lighting that still influence Australian photography today.

Avec Pleasure recommends viewing this inspiring exhibition that brings together the best of their photographic works made between 1934 and 1945. This touring NGA show is open now until Sunday the 24th of July 2016.

www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au

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Spotlight on Artist Simone Leigh – Black Lives Matter
June 10, 2020

ART IMAGINED and INTERPRETING ART AS REAL
May 10, 2020

Message From Director: Anne McGravie-Wright
March 3, 2020

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]