PG Gallery are hosting an exciting and dynamic range of exhibitions throughout 2021
Click here to view our exhibition program 2021
We are now accepting expressions of interest from artists and curators for our 2022 program.
Please visit the exhibition proposals page of our website for more information or email us.
June 4th – 18th
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POSTPONED dates to be announced for 2022
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This exhibition looks at current research that engages the urbanized landscape and its influences on modernism, minimalism, labour, and the role of art and design in our society. The material-driven printmaking allows the critique of the arts’ classical traditions to repurpose them through traditional mediums and a technologically driven lens. Juxtaposing with prints heritage to commercial and processes also traditionally used for advertising purpose. Altogether, this series looks at the role humans play in the environment, mainly through urban space. It is a critique of the beauty and destructions we have on the altered landscape.
May 20th – June 3rd
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“The subject of Twenty-plus things is basically a ‘secret’ thought or memory of mine.
I say ‘secret’ because I doubt my thought-memory is not conveyed to others in the paintings.
I’m not trying to hide anything – I just reckon these thought-memories would be dull for others to know,
but I find them stirring …. Not wanting to sound flippant; I really don’t know what I’m trying to do.
I’m just a bit bored by things, and I find doing paintings of these thought-memory-things more fun.” Phil Day
Opening night reception Thursday 20th May 6pm – 8pm
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April 15th – 29th⠀⠀
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Join us in the gallery for morning tea with Angela on Saturday April 17th, 11.30am – 12.30pm⠀⠀
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Flights of Fancy is an exhibition monotypes and paintings referencing the natural environment and the inner landscapes of the mind, of the imagination and of dreams. ⠀⠀
These works are a visceral response to a harsh yet beautiful landscape. Angela’s work has always reflected the inner psychological world just as it reflects aspects of the physical world.
The interplay between these two worlds provides the stimulus for much of her creative energy and output. The distinctive marks which inhabit the surface of the works become the visual language through which Angela hopes to create yet another world which invites the viewer to empathise or re-imagine and feel. The ambient stillness is interrupted with the introduction of birds and creatures which swoop, dive, glide and hover, sometimes ominously, over the imagined landscape to bring ‘a lightness of being’ to the otherwise challenging environment.⠀⠀
Artwork: ‘Gathering’ Monotype, 93 x 60cm
These 3-dimensional imagined sea- and landscapes draw inspiration from the effect of human activity on the environment. The dystopian landscapes are occasionally dark, barren and bleak in shades of grey and black in an imagining of the future. They are sometimes a strong bright red with yellow clouds, drawing reference to the skies after a nuclear apocalypse; or they can be deep blue, like a vast expanse of water engulfing the planet. Other 2-dimensional works on paper are borne from the misprints and offcuts of these works and rebirthed through a combination of collage, drawing, and print. These are more playful in nature and act as a contrast to their original intention. While different in subject matter, these works rely on the creation of the other and emerge as hope in the aftermath of the destruction.⠀⠀
Dates: Feb 11 – 25
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Susan Wald’s upcoming exhibition explores her response to Lake Mungo, the land, its structure, spirituality, and ancient history, with a series of monotypes made during her residency at The Art Vault in Mildura. These black and white prints were inspired by her visits to Lake Mungo, sitting, drawing and writing in solitude among the sand and mud pinnacles. The artist’s aim was to try and capture a sense of the time, spirit and energy of this ancient, powerful land. Experimenting with the space, form and thick black ink, Susan used tools, rags and brushes to wipe, draw and paint the images, trying to penetrate deeper in order to reflect some of the power of this sacred place.
Exhibition dates: March 4th – 18th⠀
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Mungo XX III⠀
Edition: 1/1 ⠀
Monotype – Ink on Hahnmuller paper⠀
68 x 58cm⠀
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Oct 20th – Nov 3rd
PG Gallery exhibition program 2020
CHRIS LAWRY
PHIL DAY
SUSAN WALD – Virtual Exhibition Sep 11 – 25
MAY BLUEBELL – Virtual Exhibition Oct 20 – Nov 3
ANGELA COOMBS MATTHEWS (postponed)
SUE COOKE – Virtual Exhibition Oct 1- 15
JESSI WONG – Postponed
SAM BECKHAM – Postponed
ELAINE CAMLIN – Postponed
Opening reception Thursday March 5th 6 – 8pm
Launched by Adrian Kellett
Recently, Phil Day has turned his attention to literary broadsides: a sheet of paper with a short piece of writing accompanied with an image. For each broadside, Day has chosen and edited lines from writers he has come to cherish, these include, Cassandra Atherton, S. K. Kelen, Paul Hetherington, Xavier Hennekinne, and Julia Leigh; resulting in seven lithographs and one copper engraving. (Edited & illustrated also includes Day’s oil paintings.)
Lithographs printed by Adrian Kellett of Sunshine Editions
Engraving printed by Greg Harrison
Exhibition dates: March 5th – 20th