Join us for the Opening event at ANCA Gallery on Saturday 31 August at 2.00pm

This is Not a Solo Show (v2) by Peter Sharp and Michelle Cawthorn runs from Wednesday 28 August to Sunday 15 September 2024.

How do couples engage, collaborate, and even ignore each other’s art practices?

Peter Sharp and Michelle Cawthorn are both artists with recognised individual art practices, and happen to be partners. Being involved in the same creative enterprise can lead to tensions and surprises. As the title of the exhibition implies, creative friction can lead to unexpected outcomes. The work in the exhibition will include singular and collaborative works.

This exhibition is the second iteration of an exhibition first shown at Verge Gallery, Sydney University in 2016.

As both artists have an active drawing practice this will be the primary focus of the show, with a single collaborative sculpture being a bridge or barrier, from or between, each artist’s work.

Peter Sharp portrait with Signal, 2022. Photo taken at Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne.

Michelle Cawthorn, studio portrait 2023.

Michelle Cawthorn is represented by Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Peter Sharp is represented by Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney.