OPENING NIGHT | Julie Blyfield & John Donegan

Stanley Street Gallery directors Merilyn Bailey and Liza Feeney attended Sydney College of the Arts together from 1980 to 1986 completing a BA and Grad dip in Visual Arts.The gallery opened in October 2012 and is a beautiful space in the heart of the city with a reputation for showing a unique a diverse range of artworks, mediums and artists, including painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics and contemporary jewellery. Our focus is not on the materials used but on the ideas and concepts being explored by the artists.

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Join us for the double opening of Julie Blyfield's 'Surfacing' and John Donegan's 'The Broken Creek'.

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<h2>S﻿urfacing </h2><h3>Stanley Street Gallery is thrilled to present ‘Surfacing’ the latest exhibition from renowned South Australian artist Julie Byfield. This series is an extension of the ideas she developed after studying collections of red marine algae specimens stored in the State Herbarium of South Australia. The incredible variety and detail of the specimens captured her imagination and became the genesis for this new body of work.</h3><h3>Julie looks closely and explores the simple shapes, forms, and details of the pressed specimens, simplifying the details to repetitive elements. She is interested in the ‘slow’ crafting process and building technique and skills over an extended period. Working on surface patterns and detail, her pieces are labour intensive and require patience and time to create.</h3>

<h2>The Broken Creek</h2><h3>John Donegan is an artist with a background in photojournalism. His artistic practice searches for the beauty in the menial and ordinary rhythms of everyday life, often highlighting the seemingly unimportant, insignificant, or unseen. ‘The Broken Creek’ marks a turning point, whereby Donegan is exploring finding peace within nature and himself.</h3><h3>Allowing himself to enjoy his own company for the first time, Donegan finds old things to be seen anew. Sitting in the landscape he finds endless brown entwined with a myriad of bland greens. Unattractive and unpleasant, this landscape by the Rocks taunts him, yet Donegan finds a patience to hold still, listen and see. It is not the sublimity of landscape that interests Donegan, instead he finds pleasure in the sound of flies, scattered dead trees, and in frantic marching of ants. Imagining himself within the unexceptional rhythms of nature, this new body of work finds peace and comfort within, paying homage to the ordinary and habitual beats of life.</h3>

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