Environmental Art & Design - Manly Art Gallery

Had to go to the conservators wo while up north I popped into Manly Art Gallery. This show is a bit of a mixed bag. There are some items more interesting and others less so.

Jennifer Turpin's sculpture is quit vivid, made also from seaweed derived materials (see above). 

Danielle Creenaune's striking print (see above) has a looseness that is at odds with the form. 

For personal reasons I liked Georgia Macfarlane's Poppey rendition of the suburban oasis (see above). Often it's Aboriginal artists who adopt the naive style in paintings, but not here.

Louise Fowler-Smith's extraordinary paionting of a flower (see above) really stood out however. THere's something powerful and ambiguoous about the rendition of a flower.