Artists:
Angela Brennan
and
Elizabeth Newman
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Marine Parade reflects on the friendship and artistic relationship between Brennan and Newman, explored through the restaging of two early works by the artists that once hung in the kitchen of their St Kilda sharehouse.
The idea for this show came from a photograph of Elizabeth Newman at the age of 26, standing in the kitchen of a sharehouse where she lived with Angela Brennan. Behind her was a painting she made that year and over her shoulder was another by Brennan. The relationship between the pictures was incidental but profound - the same spatial problem, resolved on different axes, a metaphor for the way their work has progressed since. To place the pictures together now, stripped of that original context, creates a kind of echo between the two artists and the beginning of a friendship that has had a significant impact on abstraction over the past four decades.
- Erik Jensen, curator
Featuring artists Angela Brennan and Elizabeth Newman
Curated by Erik Jensen
Published by Schmick Contemporary in conjunction with the exhibition is an intimate 28-page colour zine, featuring text by the exhibition's curator, an interview with the artists and a reflection on the exhibition by writer Siobhan Seeneevassen [launching the 2025 Schmick Contemporary Writers Program].
Order the Zine online now: https://buy.stripe.com/dR68zV3zIfp7eeQbII
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