Grand re-opening at Tacit!

 After several weeks in hiatus, Tacit Art's new gallery opens this week! Three fabulous artists are launching the new space. Do come along to opening night to help celebrate a new era for Tacit Art.

Launch of new premises and opening night invitation Wednesday 20 March 6.30-8pm

Exhibition dates Wed 20 Mar - Sun 14 April 2024

Tacit Art - new premises 314 Johnston St, Abbotsford, Vic 3067 Ground and first floor

Linda Pickering

Re-Imagined

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, becoming different versions of themselves as the geometric shape and colour shift and alter their priority on the canvas and their relationship to each other.

See work in the exhibition here

Susan Stevenson

Ghosts in the Concrete

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 Concrete embrace the often competing strands in our relationship to landscape and history in this country.

See work in the exhibition here

Susan Wald

The Gathering

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.

See work in the exhibition here

TACIT ART 314 Johnston St Abbotsford VIC 3067 Australia