Mythology of My Land

Mythology of my land is a group exhibition featuring both Australian and International artists with works that examine the religious and cultural traditions of ones own land through myths, stories and creation.

ARTISTS Adam Cusack Alex Karaconji Benjamin Stone-Herbert Christina Lucia Giuffrida Conrad Botes Eloise Cato Jacqueline Ball James R. Ford Jan Smith Jasmine Poole Joel Crosswell Joe Wilson Joy Ivill Laura Ellenberger Laura E. Kennedy Laura Turner & Joe Florio Lee Sang Hyun Lola Alexander Luke Thurgate Meaghan Potter Meg Levingston Paula do Prado Peculiar Annes Philip Weiss Tornes Rebecca Gallo Rhiannon Hopley Robbie Harmsworth Sera Waters Will Coles

Eloise Cato

Eloise Cato’s practice has embraced the plastic age and all its manufactured mannerisms in the context of the machine of the art world, how its machinations fascinate and inform. Cato works by hijacking injection blow moulding machines of mass production to manipulate polyethylene into unexpected monochromatic abstractions. Endeavouring through the guise of a natural form, a cloak of ebony charcoal, to mask the sins of the synthetic. This surface is gently painted in a highly laborious and time-intensive process that’s not evident through the counting of brushstrokes.

Lee Sang Hyun

Lee Sang Hyun, an internationally renowned South Korean artist, is considered one of the country’s most important of his generation. His digitally complied works present a dichotomy of reality and fiction blending historical images of Korea with the vivid pop culture of contemporary life. The compositions offer an alternative reality as it juxtaposes past and present to illustrate the rapid change in South Korean society over the last hundred and fifty years.

Luke Thurgate

Luke Thurgate is an artist living and working on Gadigal Land (Sydney). He teaches drawing and painting at the National Art School, where he graduated in 2021 with a Master of Fine Art. Luke has an extensive exhibition history including recent exhibitions at Grafton Regional Gallery, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Backwoods Gallery, Burra Regional Art Gallery, National Art School and Adelaide Central Gallery. He was a finalist in the 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize, the 2020 Tom Bass Figurative Sculpture Prize and the 2022 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award.

Michael Taylor

Michael Taylor mimics the immediate and expansive nature of the drawing process in order to develop scenes and characters in his painted work. Removed from its purely observational qualities, drawing becomes a projection of the artist’s intuition, imagination and memory. Representational and ﬁgurative elements in Taylor’s paintings create narrative frameworks that are unravelled to varying degrees through abstract marking.

GALLERY CLOSED ANZAC DAY | THURSDAY 25th APRIL

Mythology of My Land