SWELL Smalls Gallery | KANNITHA LY | 24
Sunday, 27 August 2023
SWELL Smalls Gallery 2023 Artwork – Time Propelled II Time propels in increments of changing values and of being. Moments that empower and embrace diversity, nurture inclusion and generate a cohesive and enduring existence. Time, which surrenders to an infinite holistic momentum. Click here to find out more about the artist For sales enquiries contact enquiry@swellsculpture.com.au
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SWELL Smalls Gallery | KATE JEFFERAY | 25
Sunday, 27 August 2023
SWELL Smalls Gallery 2023 Artwork – Warming Stripes This woven artwork is an interpretation of Professor Ed Hawkins’ ‘Warming Stripes’ graphic. The weave visually represents the change in average annual temperatures in Australia from 1910 to 2020, with each year being represented by a vertical stripe. Blue tones represent annual temperatures below the average, while red
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SWELL Smalls Gallery | MADI WHYTE | 26
Sunday, 27 August 2023
SWELL Smalls Gallery 2023 Artwork – The Bends Hailing from Gunditjmara Country in regional Victoria, Madi Whyte works primarily in sculpture and photography. Inspired by their connection to surrounding landscapes, metalworking, and the everyday zeitgeist, Whyte’s practice is concerned with the language of lines, cuts, folds, and muted aesthetics. Recent sculptures tend instead towards more playful
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SWELL Smalls Gallery | MICHELLE LE PLASTRIER & TESSA BERGAN | 27
Sunday, 27 August 2023
SWELL Smalls Gallery 2023 Artwork – TREASURE The word TREASURE stands upon a plinth and cheekily proclaims its own value. However, the abstract nature of text makes us question if the treasure is the object itself, the environment it sits in, or the audience’s projection of meaning. Click here to find out more about the artists
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SWELL Smalls Gallery | Monte Lupo | 28
Sunday, 27 August 2023
ARTISTS: Bianca Sammut, Kimberley Oberlin, Sean Davenport, Kim Green, Jai Phillips, Amanda Winyard, Michael Rubio, Myles Barabas, Paul Yik, Dylan Gorry, Ester Jong, Vicki McJarrow, Katie Stevens SWELL Smalls Gallery 2023 Artwork – Banksia Ladies The group of Banksia Ladies are adorned with the banksia flowers and are ready for discovery. Flower Posies Native Pigface flowers are a
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SWELL Smalls Gallery | NADINE SCHMOLL | 29
Sunday, 27 August 2023
SWELL Smalls Gallery 2023 Artwork – My Friend the Cyanobacteria Manufactured polyethylene is sculpted with heat, water and sand into a collection of biomorphic forms and textures. Hand painted with cyanobacteria, this photosynthetic microorganism changes colour through exposure to ultraviolet light, from dark green to blue. Click here to find out more about the artist For
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SWELL Smalls Gallery | Nasrin Vaziri | 30
Sunday, 27 August 2023
SWELL Smalls Gallery 2023 Artwork – Pomegranates Farm – sign for love, life and positive energy Nasrin Vaziri is an arts sociologist, visual artist with extensive experiences working with people from all cultural backgrounds. Nasrin has an impressive list of variety of successful community arts projects in her profile either as an initiator, designer or producer.
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SWELL Smalls Gallery | parthenopi | 31
Sunday, 27 August 2023
SWELL Smalls Gallery 2023 Artwork – lunulata The greater blue-ringed octopus (hapalochlaena lunulata) is the inspiration for this vessel with its flashes of brilliant blue and bulbous form. Lunulata literally means “little moons” in Latin and refers to the circular pattern that warns predators that this most venomous creature is ready to strike. The vessel has
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SWELL Smalls Gallery | RAE SAHELI | 32
Sunday, 27 August 2023
SWELL Smalls Gallery 2023 Artwork – Cause and Effect ‘Cause and Effect’, an aluminium panel using the artist’s distinctive art making technique – that’s right, Rae shoots her work! Cause is expressed by the brass casings from recycled empty 12-gauge shotgun shells that adorn the aluminium, covering large parts of the panel contrasted by Effect, the
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SWELL Smalls Gallery | RUSSELL SOLOMON | 33
Sunday, 27 August 2023
SWELL Smalls Gallery 2023 Artwork – Circus in the suburbs Russell Solomon’s artwork always gives us time to ponder, to question what is really important. In ‘Circus in the suburbs’ Solomon uses Magpies to remind us the value of play. Click here to find out more about the artist For sales enquiries contact enquiry@swellsculpture.com.au
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