Open Eye Signal | Fort Delta
Featuring:
Ed Bats, Katrina Dobbs, Robbie Fraser, Simon Gardam, Stephen Giblett, Claudia Gleave , Belem Lett, Hugo Koha Lindsay, Ollie Lucas, Elyss McCleary, David McDonald, David Palliser, Harry Park, Panayiota (Peta) Petrakis, Lana Thymianidis, Danae Valenza.
Flit & drag | Arcade
Flit & drag is a series of recent paintings that investigates the experience of perceptual refocussing between virtual and natural spaces. The polychromatic surfaces contain chaotic and ambiguous compositions that operate through sensations of colour, gesture and shifting depth of field. The paintings engage Neo-Baroque tendencies through ornamental painted forms, visceral pictorial spaces and visual complications that require extended viewing time. Through varied gestural passages and layered processes, the paintings bridge unfixed pictorial fields within sprawling compositions.
NEW PERSPECTIVES | Crowther Contemporary
Featuring Ryan Bannon, Mel Dixon, Panayiota Petrakis, Katie Ryan, Ellen YG Son, Bronte Webster.
New Perspectives is a curated exhibition of recent Melbourne art graduates, showcasing current themes and ideas present in contemporary art making. Including painting, photography and installation the exhibition is diverse in its narratives and perspectives. Curated by Jonathan Crowther and Pauline Rotsaert
RECENT PAINTINGS | The Old Flour Mill
Panayiota Petrakis + Lukas Orsanic
The works shown in ‘Recent Paintings’ follow Panayiota’s recent Honours project ‘Uncertain Times: Navigating Ambiguity; An Investigation in Abstract Painting,’ which examines contemporary abstract painting as a neo-baroque impulse to complicate and connect fractured perceptual states in transition.
Panayiota’s practice is driven by the potential of abstract painting as an illuminating device that engages the contemporary experience of adjusting to an ever-expanding visual network, reconciled through slowed durational viewing. With each painting left at a point of adequate incompletion and satisfied by its own logic, the works present themselves as fluctuating fields; momentarily fixed in states of ‘becoming’. This ambiguity rewards the yearning for openings beyond view, into new potential space within and beyond the painted forms.