Welcome to Tacit Art website
PLEASE NOTE WE ARE CLOSED GOOD FRIDAY BUT OPEN EASTER SATURDAY & SUNDAY
New Address:
314 Johnston St, Abbotsford, Vic 3067
(100 metres from Victoria Park train station)
Opening hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 11am-5pm.
Contact: Tel: 0423 323 188 or email: keith@tacitart.com.au
Linda Pickering - Re Imagined
20 March - 14 April 2024
Opening Night: Wed 20 March, 630-8pm
Inspired by a series of personal snapshots of the buildings of central Melbourne, Linda Pickering has interpreted the proximity of these towering structures to each other and the reflective surfaces in her continued exploration of reductive abstraction.
In looking to create a level of calm, remove the noise and the unnecessary, Pickering has extended her habitual limited palette. The result is the buildings, whilst remaining, have taken on new identities and become different versions of themselves as the geometric shape and colour shift and alter their priority on the canvas and their relationship to each other.
Susan Stevenson - Ghosts in the Cement
20 March - 14 April 2024
Opening Night: Wed 20 March, 630-8pm
Travelling in Europe last year, I was struck by the soft beauty in the weathered plaster of ancient buildings. The depth of colour and texture in the peeling paint and uneven plasterwork reminded me of aerial photographs of central Australia with cracks from shifting brickwork, blocked windows and forgotten doorways echoing the straight lines and random right angles of European settler land distribution. In the Australian context, however, these lines are no longer just poignant reminders of small lives passing across thresholds and generations. Boundary fences and minor roads have become earthworks visible from the air, supplanting natural landforms as defining features of the continent.
The paintings in Ghosts in the Cement embrace the often competing strands in our relationship to landscape and history in this country.
Susan Wald - The Gathering
20 March - 14 April 2024
Opening Night: Wed 20 March, 630-8pm
Susan Wald’s luminous canvases, with their distinctive foreground assemblies, invite storying. In each scene, the assemblies become animated; the players take on disposition and purpose. They herd together, their eyes on the interloper; they gain safety in numbers. Sometimes, humanoid, they converse - convivial guests around a dining table. Other times, they form a conga line, dancing along an infinity loop across canvases. The images lure us to find a narrative, despite their subject matter.
For the models of these players are bleached skulls of animals, vestiges salvaged from beaches, roadsides and deserts – goats, a sheep, kangaroos and wallaroos, a fox, a dog. For one, there’s a weathered fragment of spine; for the rest, no clues, no shards of former lives. The little heads suggest powerlessness, counter to their likely past lives. The goats’ horns suggest authority. This is haunting. Globally, we are witnesses to the menace of such hubris and horn-locks.
Bruce Baycroft - An Unintended Aesthetic
17 April - 5 May 2024
Opening Night: Wed 17 April, 630-8pm
Canadian-born, Melbourne-based, Bruce Baycroft has been working on a series of paintings and drawings that are about the proliferation of residential and urban development in Melbourne. He is particularly interested in the unintentional aesthetic created by ordinary materials used in the construction of buildings. Elements like shade cloth, ageing plywood, temporary supports and scaffolding produce a visual dialogue he finds more interesting than the finished building itself.
Ilona Jetmar - Sequence#1
17 April - 5 May 2024
Opening Night: Wed 17 April, 630-8pm
Time alters memory until only a flash remains – a flash of colour, a flash of light, a flash of pain. Imagery whether still or moving, helps us to reminisce of a time past, but they do not necessarily help us to remember the exact event. They show we were there, but they show a perspective that only others can attest to – since we can never see ourselves in the moment in this way. Memory is like that – it is more connected with emotions, more connected with our bodily experience than truly remembering being a part of the actual event. The memory of this event for me has reduced to flashes of colour, flashes of light and the memory of pain now an embodied experience that causes me to shy away from the same type of shoes.
Michael Wedd - Entering the Subconscious
17 April - 5 May 2024
Opening Night: Wed 17 April, 630-8pm
In this suite of works, Wedd confronts the impulse to stimulate the viewer visually, painted as they were during the Melbourne Lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Those months in a drawn-out medical quarantine became for Wedd a deepening period of creative contemplation and sustained self-reflection. Turning his back upon isms and style trends while ignoring obligatory subjects and ‘correct’ political themes, the artist set himself to enticing the inquisitive eye, of stirring the seasoned imagination, of composing afresh.
The work chart a journey into Michael Wedd’s mental health, as well as new evolving techniques. A medium new to Wedd - inks - was chosen over traditional oils and prints, allowing for spontaneous, gestural and tightly controlled brush techniques. The subject matter shifts from abstract and organic to landscape, figurative and conceptual.
Artists exhibiting in 2024 include
Where to find us
**NEW ADDRESS**
314 Johnston St, Abbotsford,
Vic 3067, Australia
Tel: 0423 323 188
E: keith@tacitart.com.au
Wed - Sun, 11am-5pm
Openings, Wed, 6.30-8pm