ARTISTS
Intimacy
21 Feb, 2021 - 16 May, 2021
This exhibition is about intimacy and its antithesis. It offers a look at the past through the lens of the present and in particular the state that overcame humanity throughout 2020. Globally, 2020 was the year physical proximity was looked upon with fear and suspicion, the year that bodies, all bodies were perceived as harbingers of disease. With attention to the joys of proximity with others and the pain of separation, Intimacy considers different states of humanity, it pictures people and the relationships between people. Scenes of decadent celebration, nights at the theatre and groups of people clustered at the beach are pictured in contrast to scenes of isolation, convalescence, despair and emptiness. Intimacy acts as a reminder of the value of others, of caring and celebration, of the potential of a joie de vivre in a world where intimacy is so easily endangered.
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This exhibition is about intimacy and its antithesis. It offers a look at the past through the lens of the present and in particular the state that overcame humanity throughout 2020. Globally, 2020 was the year physical proximity was looked upon with fear and suspicion, the year that bodies, all bodies were perceived as harbingers of disease. With attention to the joys of proximity with others and the pain of separation, Intimacy considers different states of humanity, it pictures people and the relationships between people. Scenes of decadent celebration, nights at the theatre and groups of people clustered at the beach are pictured in contrast to scenes of isolation, convalescence, despair and emptiness. Intimacy acts as a reminder of the value of others, of caring and celebration, of the potential of a joie de vivre in a world where intimacy is so easily endangered.
Artists on show
- Alexander Nganjmirra
- Anne Graham
- Charles Conder
- E. Phillips Fox
- Francis Lymburner
- Guy Edward Grey Smith
- Hans Arkveld
- James W.R. Linton
- John Oldham
- Margaret Priest
- Mary Mclean
- Merrick Belyea
- Paddy Jaminji
- Pijaju Peter Skipper
- Rick Amor
- Robert Dickerson
- Russell Drysdale
- Thea Proctor
- William Boissevain
- William Dobell
- William Judson Dickerson
- Yosl Bergner
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