From January 21 – January 25 2015 Kick Gallery will present the work of Mike Portley, Andrew Sibley & Jewels Stevens at the Art Stage Singapore art fair.
The sublime chiaroscuro work of Portley will be offset by the vivacious colour of Stevens, while the booth will also present 6 works by Sibley from the 1970’s. A presentation of work by an established artist of the calibre of Sibley combined with the new work of Portley and Stevens is set to make the Kick Gallery Booth A1 a highlight of the Art Stage Singapore art fair.
At the Melbourne Art Fair 2014 Kick Gallery will be presenting a series of paintings by Andrew Sibley that were created in Melbourne in the early 1970’s and then exhibited in Germany in 1972. This set of works first shown in at Galerie Krupp in Hofheim show a period in Sibley’s career when he fully engaged with one of his most consistent and powerful of themes, his investigations in to the human condition.
Set to be a highlight of the Melbourne Art Fair 2014 Kick Gallery is proud to present an unique selection of avant-garde 20th century paintings by a Modern Australian master.
Pivotal is the second exhibition of the work of Andrew Sibley at Kick Gallery. Having exhibited works on perspex created by Sibley from 1974 & 1976 in his first show, the second series to be exhibited at Kick Gallery are works on canvas, as well as some works on paper on board, created in 1971 & 1972.
Once again this important exhibition highlights this pioneering artist’s exploration of ideas relating to the human condition and people’s relationships to each other. They are at times challenging in terms of subject, on other occasions full of whimsy and humanity, what binds the entire set of works is there unmistakable virtuosity.
The second of a series of exhibitions in the coming years that look back to look forward on how Australian art has developed, Pivotal continues to reaffirm and reassert Sibley’s preeminence as a modern Australian master.
1972-1976 is a series of pivotal works on multi-layered perspex made in the 1970’s by Andrew Sibley. This important exhibition once again puts a focus on the contribution that this avant-garde artist has made for over five decades. The period being explored in this exhibition highlights this pioneering artist’s exploration of ideas and use of new materials at a time when formal notions of how art was made were in flux. Sibley shows through his carefully constructed and highly sophisticated works on perspex an ability to be experimental and yet retain aesthetic excellence. The first of a series of exhibitions in the coming years that look back to look forward on how Australian art has developed, this exhibition reaffirms and reasserts Sibley’s preeminence as a modern Australian master.
Retrospect is an exhibition of a selected works by Jewels Stevens, a combination of new and older works shown in a way that recontextualises the way these paintings have previously been viewed. Through this retrospective approach to the way these works are seen new associations are created. Individually they oscillate between works that are vivid, vivacious reflections of Stevens’ persona, while in other works we see cooler parts of her palette and approach to painting come to the fore. These visual manifestations are windows to her inner world and illuminate Stevens’ ability to capture transcendental light through her luxurious use of colour, shape and form.
Gillian Warden puts her love of paint at the centre of her practice. Over the past few years she has been exploring a ‘formless’ approach to paining. Textures are layered and scraped, folded and poured, and colours emerge from the painting itself. The works that she creates may be years in the making. They become a story of surface, transformed and in flux, exuding an energy that continues to change them long after her own work with them is finished. Qualities and forces of the natural world abound in Warden’s work, but there is no literality here. These are works that invite you to immerse in feeling states. States that are shifting, emergent, hidden and hinted. States that wildly, wonderfully, offer you everything. The quality of engagement that the works inspire is visceral and transformative. These are worlds we can enter into and be changed by.
