Liverpool Street Gallery sits snugly in the centre of the prospering visual art scene of Sydney and has shown artists from the UK, United States and, of course, Australia. The gallery is an unpretentious space, and allows the artworks alone to mesmerize their audience. The vast windows invite passersby on Liverpool Street to catch a glimpse of the crowd developing inside, under the soft light. And, hence was my fate.  
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A frozen performance muddled in history. A dramatic ice- age. A stage for all the lost characters. A circus for children. A pantomime for adults. A ceremony for freaks.  
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Is this exhibition about truth? Is Love Louder than Bombs? Is a ring not really a ring? Marc Hundley’s debut exhibition at Darren Knight Gallery is a sharp, tight, but complex show that borrows the pictorial vocabulary of conceptual art and popular culture. The impact it creates is that of being located in a moment between the past and the present and the slippage between fiction and non-fiction.  
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More pix from Art Month Events...

 
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Art Bar at Australian Centre for Photography and Art After Work  
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The Australian Centre for Photography opened its doors to Art Month Sydney on Thursday 24 March for the final Art Bar of 2011, the last stop on the art trail following the late night opening of local galleries in Paddington and Woollahra. Over the course of the evening, groups of art lovers ambled through the entrance corridor, engrossing themselves in the photography exhibitions and catching up with friends over a drink as FBi’s ambient tech house filled the galleries.
  
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While the premise of Thread for Thought - Synergies between Art and Fashion was sometimes tenuous, the concept served as a point of departure for thoughtful discussions of cultural hybridity; methods and materials; and the nature of creative collaboration. Hosted by Stephen Feneley, this Creative Conversation (the second in a series of discussions between artists working in a range of disciplines) began with a discussion between siblings Adam and Annie Laerkesen, which was followed by a conversation with the artist Lindy Lee.   
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Erased: contemporary Australian drawing is an exhibition that proposes an extended view of drawing, conceptually and materially. The artists in the exhibition present a range of challenging and evocative works that push traditional notions of drawing beyond “pencil and paper” and into the realm of the performative and political. It seems fitting that this exhibition be hosted at the NAS Gallery given the National Art School’s longstanding and profound commitment to drawing as a vital area of artistic practice, something that underpins its core curriculum.  
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There is something very unusual about the work of David Capra, something that doesn’t easily lend itself to intellectualization. It is another, deeper, primeval part of our consciousness that Capra’s work awakens. There is an uncanny déjà vu. As a viewer I am never sure whether he is resurrecting a half-recalled childhood experience or tricking my imagination into making new, inchoate narratives where the protagonist, like that of a childhood memory, is characterized by an inexhaustible curiosity.  
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