We’re excited to present The Egg and Dart Xmas Salon! Join us on opening night at 6pm, Friday 6th of December, as we celebrate our final show of the year. As always, there will be no pre-viewing or pre-sales, however, this year you will be allowed to take home your purchased artworks at the end of the night.
Christopher Zanko uses a visual pattern language to make bold abstractions of residential architecture. His carved and painted surfaces echo the veneers applied to mid-century modern homes. With increasingly systemised techniques and larger formats, Zanko works with a range of tools to develop highly nuanced textures. In the latest work he is making complex choices about how to render depth in relief style. There are now also uncarved painted areas, the grey of a rendered wall, for instance, that further crop and contain the images. Pathways in the foreground cut through the composition in parallel to the high contrast shadows cast onto the houses.
The Egg & Dart presents recent works by three abstract painters. Adrian Baiada and Mignon Steele join invited Melbourne artist Elyss McCleary for Otherworldly. Their works variously summon vivid densities and atmospherics through gesture and overlay. Each artist uses the brush to build marks, synthesise layers then knock back and resurrect depth. Surprising colour associations emerge, unfurling landscape spaces where the transcendental exists within the everyday.
We are excited to be back at Sydney Contemporary this year with our artists Nick Santoro and Henry Jock Walker.
Find us at Booth C10
This is India Mark’s second solo exhibition at The Egg & Dart.
Exhibition catalogue released Tuesday 20th August.
Rob Howe second solo exhibition One More Love Song at The Egg & Dart, opening night 26 July.
Exhibition catalogue click here…
The Egg & Dart presents an exhibition with a restricted palette featuring works in drawing, painting, photography, glass and ceramics. An exhibition catalogue will be released Wednesday 3 July.
Exhibition catalogue will be released Wednesday 3 July.
Opening Night 5 July, 6-8pm
Driving back from Melbourne, Mignon Steele wrote the word VOLITION on the steering wheel of her car. It remains there, scrawled in white pencil, a complex definition encompassing free will and action. For a painter like Steele, each mark laid down is a prompt for the next. An initial decision propels others in her work. Gestures are employed in the moment to push or pull at a thing that’s not quite right. New forms can be risky – the ruination of what was in the hope of what might be. And her colour is so surprising, a chromatic challenge, as it modulates across variations in surface and hue.
Exhibition Catalogue available Read more…
We are proud to introduce a group exhibition with E&D family and friends:
Lynda Draper, Ebony Eden, Julia Flanagan, Anita Holloway, Rob Howe, India Mark, Mish Meijers, Montana Miller, Hal Pratt, Nick Santoro, Henry Jock Walker, Leonie Watson, Christopher Zanko
Opening night 3rd May, 6-8pm.
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Very excited to announce our joint presentation with Galerie pompom for this years Auckland Art Fair 2019, 1-5 May. Stay tuned for more information.
The new paintings on board are a deliberate departure from Bethel’s recent seed assemblages although her materials remain fundamental: beeswax prepared in sunlight with watercolour rubbed over the wax; blue biro pen scrawls that bring a more deliberate mark of the hand. Lee Bethel has been a finalist in numerous prizes including the Sulman and the Hazelhurst Art of Paper Prize. This exhibition marks a move to painting but the sensibility that remains essentially Bethel: a restrained palette with contemplative and material-rich surfaces.
Impractical Activity locates that mid-point between intention and incidental action. Gabrielle Adamik builds armatures in opaque ceramic on which her coloured glass linework is draped and gently adjusted before hardening. Aaron Fell‑Fracasso makes tools to execute painted marks. His dynamic compositions involve colour blocking, pattern generation and direct gesture. His work for Impractical Activity inhabits a warm greyscale, but in the context of Adamik’s crystalline colour, this tonal approach holds its own.
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Opening: Friday 8 February, 6-8pm
View Catalogue here…
Join us for the hottest show this year Scorcher!!!
The Egg & Dart will fire up the new year with a free BBQ and beers to celebrate it’s first exhibition for 2019.
Opening: Friday 11 January, 6-8pm
Catalogue available here…
