GESTURE - Opening Celebration

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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OPENING CELEBRATION | GESTURE
Curated by Michelle Chanique

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OPENING CELEBRATION | GESTURECurated by Michelle ChaniqueCHELSEA LEHMANN, TANYA LINNEY, CHRIS CASALI, BEN KINGS﻿aturday 8th July3﻿-5 PMS﻿tanley Street Gallery, DarlinghurstGestures often referring to nonverbal communication, are a felt experience. They can be intentional or unintentional, widely recognised or small and intimate.The exhibition Gesture, curated by Michelle Chanique brings together four artists to develop this conversation, thinking about non-verbal languages in surface, medium, and physical movement.Responding directly to the practices of the four artists, Chanique’s curation initiates a conversation around medium, surface and physical movement. In many ways, the three painters reveal the sensibility and tactility of a sculptor. On the other hand, the sculptor’s work is evocative of painterly gesture. This tension plays with our lens of perception, reminding us that it is important to view things in a different manner and live outside category.

Michelle Chanique is a Sydney based artist, curator who was born in Santiago, Chile. Chanique works across photography, video, and sculpture, and is fundamentally preoccupied with taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary. Maybe due to being an immigrant herself, a constant theme in her work is ‘displacement’, which has evolved and taken on many different shapes and forms.Chanique’s objective is to engage the viewer on a reflection of the everyday, to elevate the banal, and to consider how the emotional, the psychological and the physical can evoke meaning or lack of, and most importantly a sense of play.Chanique holds a Bachelor’s degree from UNSW Art &amp; Design, and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from UNSW Art &amp; Design in 2020. She has exhibited widely in Sydney and Melbourne and has been commissioned by Fairfield City Council to produce video work. She has recently finished a residency with the Woollahra Council.Michelle Chanique, Image credit Felipe Olivares

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