This exhibition brings together the subject of still life alongside personal and arbitrary objects which fascinate and infatuate artists.
Past Exhibitions
2017
1 July 2017 - 26 July 2017
In this most recent body of work, Bec Juniper relates to the remote Western Australian landscape as distinctively feminine, despite many of the area’s activities, such as mining and fishing, being traditionally associated with a masculine gender. Drawn to the desert and open spaces in a meditative way, Juniper uses intuition, employing different techniques with a buffet of natural materials from oxides and ochres.
3 June 2017 - 28 June 2017
Celia Perceval paints a sense of the Australian landscape bursting into life and, at times, these new paintings seem almost overwhelmed by the intensity of their subject matter. Yet these works are less about the precise subject, the depiction of bush and birds, and more about the artist's love of paint. With a preference for painting plein air, Perceval's work is always a direct response to her surrounds.
"While my work is expressionistic and you can make out the narrative, I paint in abstraction, it flows through me. This is a conscious process despite its seemingly meditative approach”, states Perceval.
29 April 2017 - 24 May 2017
Kerry McInnis: "My latest body of work continues my efforts to evoke the landscape as the compelling entity that I perceive. It is an uncomfortable - sometimes disturbing, always engrossing - immersion into space."
1 April 2017 - 26 April 2017
Nolan's landscapes are characterised by space, the vastness and emptiness of the Australian outback and the endless stretch of its eastern coastline.
11 March 2017 - 12 March 2017
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to enjoy a selection of striking paintings and drawings by award winning artist, Margaret Woodward, presented in the context of a contemporary living space.
4 March 2017 - 29 March 2017
Melinda Schawel’s mark-making represents a personal and emotional response to phenomena occurring in nature, as well as a mediation on the nature of paper and its aesthetic and physical properties.
25 January 2017 - 1 March 2017
An exhibition featuring a vibrant summer selection of paintings from some of our best-known and emerging artists.
17 January 2017 - 24 January 2017
Wagner Contemporary is proud to present the 40/40 Project - the gallery's annual exhibition of small works by selected artists. The gallery's newly opened space in Paddington will play host to this exhibition of works, small in dimension and grand in vision. Guest artists include
2016
12 December 2016 - 22 December 2016
Hart's abstractions and shifting forms mirror the changeable nature of human experience.
1 October 2016 - 2 November 2016
An exhibition of collectable art exploring subjects that form an ongoing source of inspiration for artists: the human figure and landscape.
10 September 2016 - 29 September 2016
Dagmar Cyrulla’s interpretations of domestic life are narrative-based, inviting the audience to connect their personal experiences and emotions with her scenarios.
25 August 2016 - 9 September 2016
Featuring new work in stock by: Charles Blackman, David Boyd, Dagmar Cyrulla, James Gleeson, Mark Hislop, Deborah Kelly, Kerry McInnis, Eleanor Millard, Neil Taylor, Marie Peter-Toltz, Judith White, Margaret Woodward and Jo Young.
30 July 2016 - 24 August 2016
Eleanor Millard’s work is recognised for its haunting imagery and subtle blended forms of remote country and coastal Victorian landscapes. Her forthcoming exhibition captures sparse trees, lone homesteads and fishing boats gently drifting into frame.
9 July 2016 - 28 July 2016
Min-Woo Bang captures nature’s transitional moods in a series of cloud-scapes engaging our senses with the aesthetic and emotional elements of land and sky.
6 June 2016 - 6 July 2016
Gala Group exhibition for the opening of Wagner Contemporary.