Join us for the opening event on Wednesday 5 February at 5.30pm

Ira Gold, Tanya King, James O’Rourke

As part of ANCA’s support for emerging artists in the Canberra region, the ANCA Gallery awards an annual exhibition (EASS Award) to an ANU School of Art & Design graduate, or graduates, whose work demonstrates creative distinction. This year’s recipients, Ira Gold, Tanya King and James O’Rourke are all Visual Arts graduates working across drawing, painting and ceramics.

Pattern/colour/space/form

Join us for the opening event Wednesday 19 February from 5.30pm

The exhibition continues Munro’s investigations of the interaction of colour, pattern and space in painting. The works include fold-like corrugations in the painting’s surface that disturb and activate its physical structure. As the viewer moves around each work, areas of pattern are either revealed or hidden. In this way, the experience of the pattern, colours and forms changes according to the viewer’s position.

Join us for the launch event at ANCA Gallery Wednesday 12 March from 5.30pm

Not quite square

“This body of work is about beauty in geometry and simplicity. By using the basic elements of painting—colour, line and form, I endeavour to make an ‘object’ that visually communicates interest simply by the colours chosen, the positive and negative spaces created by the composition, use of collage and the manner in which it is made.”

Join us for the opening event at ANCA Gallery Wednesday 2 April from 5.30pm

Looking Up and Looking Down is an exhibition of mixed media abstract paintings which arose from a period of studio sharing at the ANCA Dickson Campus.

Working intuitively, Eve and Lucy draw forth memoryscapes, inner thoughts and emotions related to the world around us. The artists are concerned with visual perception and pictorial framing in their approaches to painting. For Eve and Lucy, the window presents a conceptual dichotomy through which the painting subject can either be internalised or externalised—meaning the viewer’s vantage point is set from the ‘inside’ or the ‘outside’ of a window frame.

In our homes, windows provide a view of the outside world, allowing light in through a layer of glass which protects and shields us from the elements of the natural world. Windows can also be seen as imaginative portals which capture light, shadow, reflection and space. The protection provided by a glass window is precarious, we are offered a false sense of security by its materiality, which can be easily shattered.

What do we see when we gaze through a window? Through glass a multilayered image is created of the world outside, shadows and dappled light from trees and branches, the reflection of our own faces and the reflection of the inside of an enclosed room.