Forthcoming exhibition:
Imaging the Valley: Life and Landscape in Latrobe.
22 Sept 2012 -21st Oct 2012. Latrobe Regional Gallery
This project will develop a body of 12 etchings of the Latrobe Valley for exhibition in 2012. This series of works is based on the iconography of the natural and industrial landscape of the Latrobe Valley. The art of landscape is always a translation of the natural or imagined environment. The iconography of nature and industry is weighted with the economic and psychological landscape of its inhabitants. This project imaginatively visualizes and celebrates this local environment.
Support is being sought from both government and industry to actively participate in a cultural project which will creatively develop the visual identity and iconography of the Latrobe Valley.
Curator: Maria-Luisa Marino 5128 5700
Media Liason/Sponsorship enquiries: Alexandra Sasse 0408152447
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Regarding the Face

The portrait goes beyond the individual – even when the sitter is famous, a fact often overlooked in a world obsessed with celebrity. ‘…the mystery of painting…is how can appearance be made? I know it can be illustrated, I know it can be photographed. But how can… you catch the mystery of appearance within the mystery of making?’ Francis Bacon.

These images look both to a sensibility and a sense of history. The intensity of the studio spills into these deeply articulate compositions of the head; images found in translation from feeling to form.

These contemporary portraits draw on the expressive potential of the face, with influences as diverse as Byzantine icon painting, German Expressionism and the French Fauve movement.

Exhibition Details

Location: 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. 3000

Opening: Tuesday 21 February 2012: 5.00pm – 7.00pm

Exhibition: Tuesday 21 February – Sunday 3 March

Gallery Hours: Tue – Fri: 11.00am – 5.00pm, Sat: 12.00pm – 4.00pm

Media Liason: alexsasse4@gmail.com 0408152447,

Gallery enquiries: sally@fortyfivedownstairs.com +61 3 96629966