Welcome to Tacit Art website
New Address:
314 Johnston St, Abbotsford, Vic 3067
(100 metres from Victoria Park train station)
Opening hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 11am-5pm.
Contact: Tel: 0423 323 188 or email: keith@tacitart.com.au
Sam Hardy - Ozstrayliana
8 - 26 May 2024
Opening Night: Wed 8 May, 630-8pm
This series looks at some of Australia’s unique iconography and questions the relevance of such objects by putting them into a humorous and ironic light – do we need to take our icons so seriously?
Hardy admits he is bad at painting, so he's turned to the medium of using digital objects which are then manipulated into brick creations and presented in a semi-photorealistic form as digital prints.
These creations reflect his observations of people, places and objects, many drawn from items from the queer scene but also dashes of Australiana that aim to explore a sense of identity, augmenting them with a quirky twist.
Leanne Savory - What gives form
8 - 26 May 2024
Opening Night: Wed 8 May, 630-8pm
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov
Leanne Savory's work explores the idea that what is absent is as important as what is present in the perceiving of form. She is fascinated with colour, gesture, light and dark. With these, Savory endeavours to meet the challenge of creating the illusion of form emerging from the canvas.
The artist's practice is a slow process of observation, colour creation and the considered, reverential placement of marks on the work’s surface, inviting the viewer to explore the intriguing world of reality, illusion, how we see, what gives form and ultimately what moves our soul.
Brigitta Wolfram - The Offspring of Instinct
8 - 26 May 2024
Opening Night: Wed 8 May, 630-8pm
'Confronting the phantoms of fear, grief and anxiety, my paintings are a feeble attempt to placate my subconscious. Recurring themes of alienation, remorse, the earth’s possible demise and our potential for transformation are explored in an eclectic and irreverent approach. Whilst most of the work is non-representational, I aim to place the creatures, demons and demigods who inhabit some of the work, in an evocative realm, of spatial ambiguity, rich in texture. Collage, also adds an element of surprise and vitality to the images I create.'
Alison Aplin - Harmony & Contrast
29 May - 16 June 2024
Opening Night: Wed 29 May, 630-8pm
Aplin's abstract expressionist art has a poignancy about it, rendered by the multiple layering of her work. There is an intensity in this collection of works bidding the viewer to look deeper into each piece. Her compositions use a variety of colours, both harmonious and contrasting, to achieve maximum impact. She wants you to stop, hang around, look longer and become immersed in the complexities of her visual imagery and markmaking.
Michelle Caithness - Recent small paintings
29 May - 16 June 2024
Opening Night: Wed 29 May, 630-8pm
Michelle Caithness is a regional Victorian artist who works across both painting and drawing. Her interest lies in exploring imagery within the range of figuration to abstraction. In these small paintings she references the light and architectural forms of the studio to structure ambiguous spatial readings.
Duncan Macarthur - Recent Portraits
29 May - 16 June 2024
Opening Night: Wed 29 May, 630-8pm
Duncan Macarthur’s art practice explores notions of identity and how the idea of an inner self can be registered through painting. Of particular interest is the psychological framework of how viewers perceive and organise visual information, especially when confronted with imagery where the mimetic logic has broken down and how this can inform new painterly language. Representation, irreducibly bound to presentation, is not merely a copy of something formerly present, it presents something new.
In a contemporaneous culture inundated with fast-viewed images, presented in an endless, palm-sized stream, painting, perhaps more than ever, offers viewers an opportunity to take a more reflective approach to the act of looking, one that induces a deeper, more vital understanding of the subjects presented. This body of work offers the portrait as both an imitative copy, pushed to its rational limit, and a subjecting of the sitter’s subconscious.
Christine Gibbs - For the birds
19 June - 7 July 2024
Opening Night: Wed 19 June, 630-8pm
Christine Gibbs explores the themes of fragility and vulnerability and the growing threat of species extinction.
Of particular interest are remote landscapes such as Tasmania's central highlands and, as with this exhibition, the far north west of Western Australia. She interprets the environment through painting, photography and drawing.
Liz Sullivan - Different Beauty [Redux]
19 June - 7 July 2024
Opening Night: Wed 19 June, 630-8pm
'I have the freedom of using what is around me and the energy of my surroundings and memories to think ‘well, I am painting my interpretation and am aware of but not answerable to the past and to reality’. It is the voice inside my head where reflections, the playing of light on form and shadow and the flat painting surface is not constricted by the one viewpoint. Lines can overlap, colour and rhythms can compete and harmonise and the mind can be an adventure. Liz Sullivan 2023
Sullivan is unashamedly driven to work with the substance of paint to create bold, large-scale artworks charged with optical visual energy. Sullivan is no stranger to the paintings of Cy Twombly, Turner and closer to home, Fred Williams. Her paintings are about mark-making and finding and creating beauty in the unexpected. She makes no attempt to disguise the methods of production involved in her paintings and clearly celebrates painting as the preferred medium of expression.
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Where to find us
**NEW ADDRESS**
314 Johnston St, Abbotsford,
Vic 3067, Australia
Tel: 0423 323 188
E: keith@tacitart.com.au
Wed - Sun, 11am-5pm
Openings, Wed, 6.30-8pm