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In Aquacurl Power Station, Henry Jock Walker has stitched wetsuit material into abstractions that memorialise time spent in the ocean. The neoprene surfaces carry the weathering of their former use with a method that brings together pattern making and painting. In the studio you can see it: mounds of used wetsuits like discarded skins, collected by Walker in parallel with his mobile performance practice. The fabric is organised according to colour and texture, a kind of process integrated into a studio engagement. Read More here…

The Egg & Dart presents new works by Nick Santoro at Melbourne Art Fair, Online Viewing Rooms.
June 3 - 7 2020 and February 2021

Now & Then shows Frank Nowlan’s eclectic thinking through his distinctive painting style. Nowlan treads lightly with heavy subject matter, addressing attempted political assassinations and a series on a local bushranger gang. The straight presentation leads to a wry assessment of these encounters and their settings.

Frank Nowlan is always looking, whether at historical images or the work of other painters. For the current landscapes he is looking from a train window as it travels across the Nullarbor. He is also reinspecting his knowledge of events as a history teacher. This exhibition shows divergent interests but the title Now & Then reveals an absurdist’s approach to the repetitions of history.

Julia Flanagan’s work is colour and shape colliding across painting and sculpture. Forms instinctively vibrate like a Broadway boogie-woogie. Her tightly packed paintings and constructions reference essential forms of architecture – the arch, the turret. Dazzle is her first solo show at the Egg & Dart, an opportunity to see the dynamic interaction between her paintings and cut out sculptures. Drawing pattern ideas from her own textile library, she multiplies and layers these up, working outward in a search for harmony in colour.

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.

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.
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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
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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
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We are proud to present the sixth edition of The Egg & Dart Xmas Show!
This years format will be a little bit different and as always no pre-viewing or pre-sales.

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Frank Nowlan’s latest suite of paintings takes a broad look at the subject of sport. This is significant. In 1964, injured while playing rugby league, Nowlan began privately painting images of football. He was then encouraged to continue painting by an art teacher and kept this secret from his team mates. He later set painting aside to pursue history teaching. Having retired from that vocation, Nowlan’s current approach to sport is wilfully diverse. He chooses subjects of interest and sets up painting challenges – how to capture the mass of a crowd looking over a velodrome or how to alter perspective to reveal more of the ground where the action takes place. Then the paintings start to populate: Bradman as the backyard cricketer, a boxer known as The Torpedo. Australia’s first rugby side. The crowd is also a character, a mass of repeated gestural marks circuiting whatever ring or field the play is taking place in. Some works are in response to historical prompts – an early photograph of Tolstoy playing tennis or a story of monkeys riding atop greyhounds in the 1930s. Other figures are anonymous and everyday, players in a local game or two women playing football. The overall Nowlan style is evident across the current collection but it is an added pleasure to see him exploring repetition and variation within a specific arena. This thematic play between figures and the sporting ground allows for Nowlan’s distinctive painting style to assert itself in new ways.

-Melody Willis

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An exhibition featuring recent abstract works by artists Adrian Baiada and Zara June Williams.
Opening night: Friday 28th September, 6-8pm
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We're excited to present this group show with an all female lineup of amazing artists! This exhibition starts 1st August and through to 25th. Opening night the 3rd August, 6-8pm.

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