Friday, December 8, 2023

ANNUAL GROUP EXHIBITION - 80:20 Artists Agency, 377 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt, Sydney

 William Seeto has opened a new space on Parramatta Road in Leichhardt.

The Annual Group Exhibition includes the work of 17 artists.




"Nothing To Say Here - Kate Mackay"
goache on gessoed paper, 29.5cm x 29.5cm, 2023
(image William Seeto)

"We Live In A Rainbow Of Chaos - Paul Cezanne"
goache on gessoed paper, 29.5cm x 29.5cm, 2023
(image William Seeto)

"Artists Think With Their Eyes Open - Ian Burn"
goache on gessoed paper, 29.5cm x 29.5cm, 2023
(image William Seeto)



"Conceptual Art Replaces The Customary Visual Object With Arguments About Art - Ian Burn"
oil on canvas on board, 64cm x 64cm, 2023
(image William Seeto)







Saturday, November 4, 2023

A4 Draw - Grafton Regional Gallery, 158 Fitzroy St, Grafton, NSW

 A4 Draw at the Grafton Regional Gallery is "an exhibition of drawings by established and emerging artists from the Clarence Valley, Northern Rivers and North Coast". The exhibition runs from November 5, 2023 to February 4, 2024.

All work was to be on an A4 size piece of archival paper and it coincided with the Dobell Drawing Prize on at the same time.  I contributed two stitched works, variations of my 'Nothing To Say Here' works. 

"A Drawing Is Simply A Line Going For A Walk - Paul Klee"
yarn on gessoed paper, 30cm x 21cm, 2023

"Pure Drawing Is An Abstraction - Paul Cezanne"
yarn on gessoed paper, 30cm x 21cm, 2023



Tuesday, November 23, 2021

QUE DES FEMMES/ONLY WOMEN - satellite exhibitions at Factory 49, Sydney and RNOA, Mt. Tomah - November 2021

'Que des Femmes/Only Women' was the premise of the 6th Biennale Internationale d'art Non Objectif held at de la Ville de Pont de Claix, curated by Roland Orepuk.  12 satellite exhibitions were held internationally showing the work of hundreds of women working within the Non-Objective genre.

I was involved in 2 of the satellite exhibitions in Australia, one at Factory 49 in Sydney curated by Anya Pesce and Lisa Pang; the other at RNOA in Mt.Tomah curated by Sarah Keighery.



Factory 49

Factory 49

RNOA Mt.Tomah

'An Artist Is Somebody Who Makes Things That People Don't Need-Andy Warhol', oil on canvas on board, 51cm x 51cm, 2018

'Art Is Theft-Picasso', oil on canvas on board, 26cm x 26cm, 2018






Tuesday, May 11, 2021

GROUP SCULPTURE - Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville - 12 May to 5 June 2021

Group Sculpture was an exhibition of works by 4 artists at Factory 49 in Sydney. The artists involved were Karen Benton, Mel Clyne, David Helmers and myself. I created a painted cube work. It was constructed from 12 painted rectangular cardboard boxes that were arranged to create a cube with a void in the centre, tied together with yarn. The work measured 88cm x 88cm x 88cm.

 Photo credit: Aster Haskas
Kate Mackay (foreground) Karen Benton  (wall on left)
 Mel Clyne (wall on right) David Helmers (floor on plinths)
Photo credit: Aster Haskas

Saturday, April 24, 2021

COVIMETRY - XXI Gallery, Warsaw, Poland - April 2021

COVIMETRY is an exhibition organised by Mark Starel, the creator of Discursive Geometry.  The exhibition has 3 editions, both actual and virtual.

Discursive Geometry is a trend in contemporary geometric art, the feature of which is the ability to enter into discourses other than its own.


From the Covimetry Art Project Introduction:

"The name COVIMETRY comes from the combination of two words: COVID (Corona Virus Desease) and GEOMETRY (any trend in geometric art: constructivist, hard edge, minimal art, op-art, concrete art, non-objective art, discursive geometry and others).


About 300 artists from over 40 countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia take part in the project. The number of participants and countries continues to grow.


The starting theme of all the work is an anti-virus mask template. The presented works have been realized in various techniques and technologies, such as: drawing, painting, graphics, collage, object, photography, mix media, computer animation, video."


My contribution made use of a quote from Laurie Anderson "Language Is a Virus".

"Laurie Anderson: Language Is A Virus", gouache on paper, 2021

The exhibition was held at the XXI Gallery, Warsaw, Poland at the end of April 2021, the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, USA (online) and the BWA Gallery, Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, Poland.  

The work of all the participants are available to be viewed on the COVIMETRY WEBSITE.

Monday, December 28, 2020

ARTICULATE TURNS TEN - Articulate Project Space, 497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt - 29 December 2020 to 3 January 2021

 Articulate Turns Ten was the end of year exhibition involving a number of artists who had been involved in the space over the previous ten years.

CLICK HERE to go to a post of the exhibition on the Articulate blog.

The show included the work of Susan Andrews, Vilma  Bader, Bettina Bruder,  Mandy Burgess and Ro Murray, Jane Burton Taylor, Curtis Ceapa, Sue Callanan, Rox De Luca, Parris Dewhurst, Ella Dreyfus, Nicole Ellis, Bonita Ely, Steven Fasan, Sarah Fitzgerald, Juliet Fowler Smith, Beata Geyer, Simone Griffin, Philippa Hagon, Barbara Halnan, Jan Handel, Kendal Heyes, Isobel Johnston and Jude Crawford, Sonja Karl, Fiona Kemp, Michelle Ledain, Noelene Lucas, Kate Mackay, Diane McCarthy, Mahalya Middlemist, Raymond Matthews, Sue Murray, Sue Pedley and  Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Renay Pepita, Anya Pesce, Elizabeth Rankin, Che Ritz, Margaret Roberts, Tamsin Salehian, Alan Schacher, Lisa Sharp, Anke Stacker, Voices of Women (Lliane Clarke), Molly Wagner, Gary Warner and Elke Wohlfahrt.

Being mid-covid, I contributed the work "Language Is A Virus - Laurie Anderson", oil on canvas, 38cm x 38cm, 2020.

photo credit: Articulate/Margaret Roberts

photo credit: Lisa Pang


L-R: Ella Dreyfus, Kate Mackay credit: Articulate/Margaret Roberts


Sunday, December 27, 2020

NEW MODERN, RNOP MELBOURNE - THE ROAD PAINTINGS - Five Walls, Level 1, 119-121 Hopkins St, Footscray - 13 to 26 June, 2019 then to THE STORES BUILDING - North Parramatta - Oct 19, 2019

'The Road Paintings' was a group exhibition shown at Five Walls in Melbourne then at The Stores Building at Parramatta in Sydney as part of 'Coterie to Coterie'.  The exhibition was curated by Dr. Billy Gruner and co-curated in Melbourne by Aaron Martin.  The works resulted from ongoing exhibitions of post-contemporary reductive art as part of the Biennale of International Reductive and Non-Objective Art.
My contribution was a small work called 'Art Is Theft'.







"Art Is Theft", oil on canvas on board, 26cm x 26cm, 2018