Leonie Watson’s desire to categorise and contain is as strong as her belief in the virtues of productive disorder. These contrary tendencies are brought into a tentative balance in her work, pictured as relationships between different materiality’s and incongruous visual elements.

The works in BALANCE employ watercolour, pencil and thread. Watercolour is poured onto paper; it pools and dries in unpredictable ways. The results are amorphous forms suggestive of stains, organic growths or landscapes. To these forms, Watson brings an analytic eye, employing coloured pencil lines and clusters of stitches to hold and measure, but not quite contain them. Stains permeate the paper, lines track the surface and thread pierces through. Watson likens this process to the way we are driven to measure and categorise our thoughts and feelings, as we attempt to understand, contain and control them.

Opening night is Friday 28th October, 6-8pm.

We are very excited to announce that The Egg & Dart has been invited to exhibit at Casula Power House, Sydney this October-December.

We have invited our own stable of artists as well as three Scandinavian artists:

Gabrielle Adamik, Lee Bethel, Aaron Fell-Fracasso, India Mark, Frank Nowlan, Nick Santoro, Leonie Watson, Christopher Zanko, Marie J. Engelsvold (DK), Sofi Lardner Häggström (SWE), and Rebecka Bebben Andersson (SWE)

Have a look at Casula Power House here: http://www.casulapowerhouse.com/

People of all times and cultures have used aspects of their appearance to feel powerful or create an impression of power. These can be wearable items such as clothes and accessories, or modifications of the body such as tattoos, muscles or make-up. While these are subjective expressions, they are by nature inviting judgment from an audience. Therefore, they are also acts of self-objectification. The sense of power can be experienced in a completely private space, however it can only exist in relation to a wider social and cultural context. The exhibition Second skin examines what attributes of these symbols create a sense of powerfulness on a personal level, and their relationship to a wider societal context.

This is the second residency The Egg & Dart is undertaking. This time with illustrator/artist Elin Matilda Andersson. She will reside in the gallery for two weeks and create her work under that time on the walls of the gallery, while also investigating the audience responses with interviews which later will be available online as a podcast.

In the mean time check out other podcasts here:

http://www.partlyprivate.com

Playpen, Cawthorn’s ninth solo exhibition and first with Egg & Dart, continues her exploration of the way that our past pervades our everyday. Employing drawing as her primary expressive form, Cawthorn’s works on paper are concerned with allowing memory to free-associate through the meditative process of hatching. As a drawn forms evolves and takes shape on the page, associations begin to develop. These associations draw on the vast store of images and experiences that are unique to each of us and which we accumulate over a lifetime. The resultant artworks represent fragments of memory juxtaposed with representational and non-representational forms that are suggestive rather than prescribed.

Like her drawings, Cawthorn’s sculptures obliquely reference past experiences, however their materiality demands a more sensorial response. Using fabrics and ply wood, and often taking their cue from playthings and spaces, they beg to be touched, felt, explored. This is a deliberate ploy by Cawthorn as the tactile, experiential nature of the works are intended to evoke the viewer’s own memories and experiences.

Due to the storm in June and the damage that it caused,  the exhibition Outback and Out Back with Rob Howe and Hal Pratt was only possible to view in the gallery for little over a week. 

We wanted as many as possible to see this beautiful exhibition and that’s why we now are installing it again.

Come and view it in the newly renovated gallery space between 23rd - 30th August, with a day closing the 27th August, 10 - 4pm.

Have a look at Hal Pratt’s work for this exhibition here
and for Rob How’s work here

It’s with great excitement we introduce our first ever performance artist in Henry Jock Walker. Walker will be undertaking another first for us, a residency here at The Egg & Dart!

Henry Jock Walker is an artist and surfer from Adelaide, South Australia. He uses the crossover of surfing action and action painting to morph his practice onto a unique platform of exploration between the surfing and art community. However, Walker offers more than that. An avid perfomer with a social consience he gladly collaborates with people he meet on his journey of artmaking and his materials may be lucky finds on the way. This serendipitousness are important part of his work.

‘The Scrambled Egg & Dart Experiment’ will take place at the E&D gallery and around Thirroul from 9th to 31st July, with an event screening, exhibition and perfomance by Henry Jock Walker and friends on the 29th July.

‘Outback and Out Back’ is an exhibition by artists Rob Howe and Hal Pratt, which takes their very different subjects and highlights ideas of belonging, self, nostalgia and the romantic.

Hal Pratt found inspiration for these paintings in the evocative landscape of the Macdonnell Ranges east and west of Alice Springs. The work originates from firsthand experience of walking the Larapinta Trail from Alice Springs to Mount Sonder and joining annual painting camps in remote locations in the same area.

Pratt has accepted the challenge of finding his own interpretation of this landscape after Namatjira. The result is a unique voice that speaks of the awe and majesty while sharing the trials and tribulations experienced through making art in difficult, rugged and isolated conditions.

At first glance Robert Howe's work seems concerned with the everyday or mundane. Yet upon examination we see evidence of the joy in his mark making, colour relationships, and perspective. There is an intimacy that is understood, and the seemingly innocuous subject matter of stranger’s transforms into homes and havens of friends and loved ones.

The Egg & Dart
27th May – 25th June 2016