Elisabeth Cummings is one of Australia’s most highly regarded living artists with a career traversing over 60 years. Cummings’s paintings are captivating for how they move in and out of abstract interiors, landscapes and still life. The title of Cummings’s latest exhibition, Through the Window, signals a continuation of this focus.
With 18 new paintings, the Sydney-based artist has created a rich body of work concerned with the art of looking. Each painting positions the viewer into intimate scenes of the artist’s interior spaces and surrounding landscapes. The title painting, Through the Window, 2020, is a striking abstract study of how the construction of a window—its frame and glass—influences our visual perception of colour, form and light.
Given the subject matter and timespan in which these works were created (2021-2022), it’s difficult not to be reminded of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. However, Cummings is renowned for finding inspiration in her everyday settings and these paintings reveal the possibilities of her imagination. View, in pictures, these enthralling and ingenious paintings now showing at King Street Gallery on William.
Through the Window
Elisabeth Cummings
King Street Gallery on William
Until 29 October 2022
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