All I want is peace in the Middle East, a blow job and a free T-shirt
David Griggs
Since childhood, Griggs has been fascinated by other cultures, and he now considers Manila a second home. His photographic records of the city and its people provide constant inspiration for his work. Combining the tattoos of local Manila street gangs, Catholic iconography and children’s book illustrations Griggs’ choice of imagery evokes faith, love, hate, death, community and hope.
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WHERE & WHEN: 20 June – 19 July
Kaliman Gallery +612 9357 2273 |
Nadine ChristensenChristensen's paintings explore the visual world that we now live in where digital media record and manipulate appearances to create an artifice and hyper-reality. This erosion of reality and genuine experience are replaced by an idealised, sublime artifice. The beautifully executed surfaces and details of Christensen's paintings present little or no depth within the picture plane. By reducing the painting to an almost purely ‘surface experience', Christensen makes reference to her interest in the demise of late modernism and formalist aesthetics. Her slick and highly contrived vision is applied to a variety of subjects including domestic interiors, landscapes, birds and vases of flowers. Christensen's muted palette and carefully arranged compositions enhance the artificial, and decorative nature of her work. The result is an enormously seductive yet eerily vacuous experience of nature. |
WHERE & WHEN: 25 July - 16 August
Kaliman Gallery +612 9357 2273 |
Tim McMonagleTim McMonagle's strangely sensual paintings hover between reality and an acid toned dream. With large expanses of impasto paint McMonagle creates his compositions from a series of details that inhabit this minimal wash of pale hues.
Often beginning their visual journey as photographs McMonagle's paintings retain a realistic quality in their rendering, yet simultaneously there is a definite departure into a dreamlike and fantastic realm. A playful and humorous sensibility is often found in this artistic vision that stands with one foot in the detail of the everyday, and the other in a place of whimsical daydreams. They are not childhood fantasies, definitely originating from an adult realm it is not uncommon to find a nude figure of either sex reclining poolside with paintbrushes or mooching in a hammock. Occupying a bland and bourgeois setting the typecast inhabitants of Mcmonagle's world have a hauntingly lackadaisical presence. |
WHERE & WHEN: 22 August - 13 September
Kaliman Gallery +612 9357 2273 www.kalimangallery.com |
