Michelle Connolly - Tiliqua Tiliqua

Connolly has an easy facility with the medium, the works on paper mainly. Some more ambitious than others (see below) the colour and line are competent and interesting if not inspiring.

When I visited the gallery Connolly was on the phone so I had no chance to discuss the ideas with her. I felt like Connolly represents a distinct and important stage in Australian art, the primary consideration being one of gender. Other works had evidence of this and while the smaller works were nicely priced I didn't need to see more. 

Humour can be important in art. In Connolly's case works that reached beyond the routine political tropes of popular debate successful.