Installation view
WED 27 APR - SAT 14 MAY 2016
OFFICIAL OPENING: Saturday 30 April, 2-4pm
The gallery curated exhibition, Beyond COLOUR reveals the different way in which the four exhibiting artists capture and remove colour in their practice.
Exhibiting artist: Matthew Tome, Sieglinde Battley, John Heaney, Lynette Bridge.
John Heaney Black Bowl No.1 2016 stoneware ceramic
Lynette Bridge blush 2015 mixed media on board 92 x 120cm
Sieglinde Battley The Deserted Queen 2016 acrylic on canvas 91cm x 91cm
Matthew Tome colour etching series 2016
FOUR FLAVOURS AT 139
Newcastle Herald
Jill Stowell May 6, 2016, 2 p.m.
THE latest exhibition at Gallery 139 until June 4 brings together four very different artists.
Sieglinde Battley’s four paintings layer images from rich deposits of imagination, part literary, part autobiography, part exotic visitations from the subconscious. Unravelling context takes time in pleasurable puzzling. She is a self-generating artist with a reputation for the unexpected both in Australia and in Europe.
Matthew Tome is also widely represented. His series of small multiple-plate etchings plays theme and variations on an electronic subject with sophisticated simplicity.
Lynette Bridge, at a different stage in her career, deploys many mediums in cloudy nuance, while John Heaney’s sculptural stoneware pots ape metal, marble and cement in bold folded forms.