Exhibition roundup: Zetland and Newtown

We took the bus to get to Zetland and Sullivan+Strumpf where Yvette Coppersmith’s decorative and colourful canvases were on display (see below). This is ‘Untitled Movement (Venetian Red)’ and it was auspiciously unsold (most works in the show had already been taken) but I restrained myself.

Downstairs at the same gallery were works by Singaporean artist Dawn Ng, and I admired some of her larger works on paper, such as ‘I Will Follow You into The Dark’, which was made using acrylic paint, dye, and ink. The green and the pink sort of coalesced and gravitated toward a mesmerising grey blending opposites into a new colour that is usually disparaged, and I think of a talk I went to recently on press freedom and how it’s the grey areas of society that allow all the useful discussion to happen.

Simon and I asked for directions to get to Newtown, where we’d arranged to meet with Annie of Laerk Space, which is on Wilson Street up the north end of Newtown. She said her mum used to run a general store there and we chatted for a while with a young couple who were passing with their dog, an Australian shepherd cross that was brown and very large, but friendly.

We also trotted down to the costume shop on King Street to see whether we could move toward finalising plans for out first Sketch soiree (see page at left), and on the way back to the train station we bumped into an old friend of mine named Mark. A conversation about art ensued on the busy pavement near Alice Street.