Take a Look: Sculpture Exhibitions in Sydney
Above: Clara Hali’s exhibition at Defiance Gallery Mary Place . Photo courtesy of Defiance Gallery.
There are some interesting sculpture exhibitions currently on show in Sydney at the moment that we thought we’d share. We’d love to know if you’ve been to any must-see shows recently, leave a comment below - we’d be very happy to hear from you!
22 April - 20 May
Hard One Ground: James Rodgers
Nanda\Hobbs Gallery
Hard One Ground is a powerfully evocative exhibition, where gestural impulses synthesise steely materiality with the organic natural world. Rogers’ understanding of and relationship to nature, is key. The artist draws rhythmically with an oxy torch, hissing, as molten metals drip through old industrial pipes cut on the turn. In Rogers' hands, the industrial becomes the natural—creating ribbons and forms that echo the wind, the waves and the flow of the landscape. The work is founded in a morphic distillation of nature, rather than a mere description of it.
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28 April - 20 May 2021
Selected Works from 1995 – 2020: Clara Hali
Defiance Gallery Mary Place
Clara Hali is an artist who engages with the sculptural possibilities offered by the human form. Influenced by the Cubist ethos of combining figurative and abstract planes, Clara’s sculptures explore the bold characteristics of both the female and male figure.
The survey exhibition features more than 50 sculptures.
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26 March - 5 September 2021
The National: New Australian Art
Three venues - see below.
The National 2021: New Australian Art is a celebration of contemporary Australian art. The third in a series of biennial survey exhibitions, it showcases work being made across the country by artists of different generations and cultural backgrounds. Through ambitious new and commissioned projects, the 39 artists, collectives and collaboratives featured across three venues respond to the times in which they live, presenting observations that are provocative, political and poetic. The National is a partnership between the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA).
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20 May - 3 June
Sculpture Rocks
Campbells Cove
The exhibition will feature 18 works by 14 Japanese artists including an ephemeral work by Akira Kamada, as well as works by Keizo Ushio, Takeshi Tanabe, Mitsuo Takeuchi, and Ayako Saito. The artists hail from both Japan and Australia, including a number who were compelled to move to Australia due to the vibrant sculpture scene nurtured by Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi.
Sculpture Rocks will be showcased along the stunning and popular Sydney Harbour foreshore area between the Overseas Passenger Terminal, along Campbells Cove, and ending at Hickson Reserve next to the Park Hyatt Hotel.
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