Exhibited in Steal at Linton & Kay Galleries (Perth City, Western Australia) 28 May - June 2016. Curated by Anna Sabadini. Steal is a group show that celebrates the ideas of other painters, even, yes, pinching them. This is a time-honoured tradition - it links with the past
Meaning embeds itself one mark at a time. Poised wrist I wait. Every moment an intersection. Left, right, straight or do I stall? As the path becomes more obvious the direction becomes clear. Some possibilities diminish while others are exposed. I am interested in how we
Memories are mothers, lovers, bullies on a rampage. Protectors, seducers, tormentors. Drowning, smothering, saving us again and again. Images flash - pain, pleasure, ambivalence. Held in a present long since past, reminding. Solo exhibition by Mel Dare. 10th - 23rd October 2016 Peekaboo Gallery - Northbridge, Western Australia.
17 June - 3 July 2016 Paper Mountain ARI, Perth Lines that Define: the exploration of subjectivity and perspective by artists Olga Cironis and Mel Dare. Inspired by their personal narratives and migrant cultural contexts, Cironis and Dare produce socially-charged yet personal 3D and flatline works respectively. While