Darryn Ansted’s Architectonic Paintings view the new Australian landscape as one of a deconstructed theatre set.
This extends his recent examination of the ruinous post-industrial landscape of Leipzig in painting that again constructs a consciously renewed artifice with paint but this time braids recent architecture in Australia into folded and curved planes.
Dr Ansted is the Head of Painting in the School of Design and Art at Curtin University.
He has exhibited internationally in over 30 projects and has taught art studio practice and art history/theory at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University since 2008.
The Land Series
Harriet Body
Gallery 2
Earth Mark is a new body of work by Sydney and Darwin based artist, Harriet Body.
Harriet recently returned from a research trip in India and Europe which included a three-month residency at La Fragua Artist Residency in Belalcazar, a small Andalusian village in the south of Spain.
Harriet’s practice is concerned with undertaking process-based actions in the studio in order to create enduring artworks that effectively memorialise these actions.
In this way she aims to preserve the present moment of her body in creative action.
Earth Mark is a series of works on paper that exist as traces of an action.
Harriet is a current Masters research student at the College of Fine Arts.
