Further information
Exhibition dates:
18 June - 2 August 2006
Curator: Kevin Robertson
Artists include:
- Andrew Daly
- Jo Darbyshire
- Leanne Emmitt
- Richard Gunning
- Thomas Hoareau
- David Lamb
- Joanna Lamb
- Garry Pumfrey
- Kevin Robertson
Configured is a selection of contemporary representational painting curated by Perth artist Kevin Robertson.
Configured situates current figurative practice in a distinctly postmodern context by selecting artists who re-work images from the past and explore contemporary imagery.
From Kevin Robertson’s unconventional figure studies to Jo Darbyshire’s haunting under-water jellyfish paintings to Garry Pumfrey’s suburban delis and Joanna Lamb’s uneasy representations of the suburban landscape, this show features a range of subjects and styles.
Joanna Lamb Airport 4, 2004, oil on canvas, 160 x 200 cm
Garry Pumfrey Conca's, 2004, oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm
Jo Darbyshire Big Brown Jellyfish, 2003, oil on canvas, 152 x 102 cm
Configured was assisted by Art on the Move, the National Touring Exhibition Structure for Western Australia through the State Exhibition and Touring Funds.
Transience: figurative art in new hands
Transience is a parallel exhibition to Configured which looks at the work of a small number of very recent graduates from the three university art schools in Perth, all of whom are using figurative techniques.
Their work can be characterised by a shared interest in small worlds, domestic and personal, and in memory, reminiscence and impermanence.
Together the exhibitions reflect a continuing intense concentration on personal experience in painting in Western Australia.
University information
CRICOS Code: 00126G
