On Scale, an exhibition co-curated by Bruce Reynolds and Ruth Waller, asks 12 artists to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental. The exhibition, which spans painting, drawing, textiles, sculpture and installation, addresses varied considerations particular to each artist’s practice. It also explores the relationship of these works to each other and the gallery space.
The show highlights the characteristics of weight and lightness, density and tension and the contemplation of scale as it shifts from the physical to the metaphysical and beyond. The responses range from engagement with the organic and ecological such as in the case of Dan Power’s intricate drawings and David Helmers’ sculpture, to systems of geometry in Emma Beer’s and Katrina Barter’s abstract paintings, and even cosmic scale, in Lisa Sammut’s collaboration with David Greenhalgh.
On Scale, an exhibition co-curated by Bruce Reynolds and Ruth Waller, asks 12 artists to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental. The exhibition, which spans painting, drawing, textiles, sculpture and installation, addresses varied considerations particular to each artist’s practice. It also explores the relationship of these works to each other and the gallery space.
The show highlights the characteristics of weight and lightness, density and tension and the contemplation of scale as it shifts from the physical to the metaphysical and beyond. The responses range from engagement with the organic and ecological such as in the case of Dan Power’s intricate drawings and David Helmers’ sculpture, to systems of geometry in Emma Beer’s and Katrina Barter’s abstract paintings, and even cosmic scale, in Lisa Sammut’s collaboration with David Greenhalgh.
On Scale
Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA)
20 November—8 December
This article was originally published in the November/December print issue of Art Guide Australia.
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