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Mark Merrikin | With Fairies
Feb
24
to Mar 13
Exhibition, 2021, Current

Mark Merrikin | With Fairies

With an instinctive meshing together of material and feel, Mark Merrikin’s paintings capture everyday connections between friends and family. This might feel like a well-trod path, but there is an unusual tenderness and direct gesture in the work. Figures feel lovingly embraced by a wild meshing of patterns and shifting surfaces. A colour link to the Fauvist modernists is there but then knocked back by accretions of cement and spray paint. Built up grainy areas bring the outside in to these images, landing the work in an urban present.

Mark Merrikin is an emerging artist from Woolgoolga on the NSW mid-north coast. He is now based in Port Kembla, having graduated from the University of Wollongong. The Egg & Dart is excited to present the artist’s first show at the gallery. Click here to read more and to view the exhibition catalogue…

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Mar
17
to Apr 3
Exhibition, 2021, Upcoming

Clare Thackway | Between Us

Clare Thackway shows us how figurative painting can unveil the relationship of intimacy to distance. The space between bodies is an ongoing consideration explored through the use of drapery and the stripe, with these ideas now palpable in the context of a global pandemic. The cloth creates separation and a physical barrier but this can also be felt as an act of collective care. There is a tenderness in the works as they unfold aspects of the body in vulnerable states. These are intimate paintings that contemplate our anxieties around contagion and a health response that seeks to separate and demarcate. The sensation is made visceral in the paint method through aerosols projecting across the surface. It appear as glitches, spots and sprays – masking fluid on the base layer generating areas of vivid pink and yellow that abstract the visual field. The breath, an essential expression of life, now requires containment and management. Read more…

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Georgia Spain | Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It
Feb
9
to Feb 27
Exhibition, 2021, Current

Georgia Spain | Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It

Georgia Spain lives and works in Sandford Tasmania. Since her first solo exhibition with the Egg & Dart in April 2020, (Beginning in Blue) Left in Red, the response has been overwhelming. In September 2020 she was awarded the winner of The Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship and featured in The Egg & Dart’s online presentation for Sydney Contemporary 2020. In Spain’s paintings, physical connection is explored through bodies in groupings. Each work touches on an instinctual engagement between people in crisis or communion.

Please click here for the online exhibition catalogue

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Ebony Eden | An Orchid Year
Feb
3
to Feb 20
2021, Current

Ebony Eden | An Orchid Year

Ebony Eden offers a meditation on shifting social aesthetics where personal expression emerges through the arrangement and nurturing of plants and objects. Eden uses a parallel drawing method to generate spaces of domestic garden utopia. There is no firm vanishing point or point of view but instead a presentation of infinite arrangement and possibility. There is a lightness in the work and a fluidity in her visual language. Working with lines in parallel, we can perceive depth and scale on this parallel axis as she move from still life to garden landscape. Read more and view exhibition catalogue here….

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