Welcome to Tacit Art website
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
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.
Sam Hardy - Ozstrayliana
8 - 26 May 2024
Opening Night: Wed 8 May, 630-8pm
This series looks at some of Australia’s unique iconography and questions the relevance of such objects by putting them into a humorous and ironic light – do we need to take our icons so seriously?
Hardy admits he is bad at painting, so he's turned to the medium of using digital objects which are then manipulated into brick creations and presented in a semi-photorealistic form as digital prints.
These creations reflect his observations of people, places and objects, many drawn from items from the queer scene but also dashes of Australiana that aim to explore a sense of identity, augmenting them with a quirky twist.
Leanne Savory - What gives form
8 - 26 May 2024
Opening Night: Wed 8 May, 630-8pm
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov
Leanne Savory's work explores the idea that what is absent is as important as what is present in the perceiving of form. She is fascinated with colour, gesture, light and dark. With these, Savory endeavours to meet the challenge of creating the illusion of form emerging from the canvas.
The artist's practice is a slow process of observation, colour creation and the considered, reverential placement of marks on the work’s surface, inviting the viewer to explore the intriguing world of reality, illusion, how we see, what gives form and ultimately what moves our soul.
Brigitta Wolfram - The Offspring of Instinct
8 - 26 May 2024
Opening Night: Wed 8 May, 630-8pm
'Confronting the phantoms of fear, grief and anxiety, my paintings are a feeble attempt to placate my subconscious. Recurring themes of alienation, remorse, the earth’s possible demise and our potential for transformation are explored in an eclectic and irreverent approach. Whilst most of the work is non-representational, I aim to place the creatures, demons and demigods who inhabit some of the work, in an evocative realm, of spatial ambiguity, rich in texture. Collage, also adds an element of surprise and vitality to the images I create.'
Alison Aplin - Harmony & Contrast
29 May - 16 June 2024
Opening Night: Wed 29 May, 630-8pm
Aplin's abstract expressionist art has a poignancy about it, rendered by the multiple layering of her work. There is an intensity in this collection of works bidding the viewer to look deeper into each piece. Her compositions use a variety of colours, both harmonious and contrasting, to achieve maximum impact. She wants you to stop, hang around, look longer and become immersed in the complexities of her visual imagery and markmaking.
Michelle Caithness - Recent small paintings
29 May - 16 June 2024
Opening Night: Wed 29 May, 630-8pm
Michelle Caithness is a regional Victorian artist who works across both painting and drawing. Her interest lies in exploring imagery within the range of figuration to abstraction. In these small paintings she references the light and architectural forms of the studio to structure ambiguous spatial readings.
Duncan Macarthur - Recent Portraits
29 May - 16 June 2024
Opening Night: Wed 29 May, 630-8pm
Duncan Macarthur’s art practice explores notions of identity and how the idea of an inner self can be registered through painting. Of particular interest is the psychological framework of how viewers perceive and organise visual information, especially when confronted with imagery where the mimetic logic has broken down and how this can inform new painterly language. Representation, irreducibly bound to presentation, is not merely a copy of something formerly present, it presents something new.
In a contemporaneous culture inundated with fast-viewed images, presented in an endless, palm-sized stream, painting, perhaps more than ever, offers viewers an opportunity to take a more reflective approach to the act of looking, one that induces a deeper, more vital understanding of the subjects presented. This body of work offers the portrait as both an imitative copy, pushed to its rational limit, and a subjecting of the sitter’s subconscious.
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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