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Artbay Gallery - Kate Bergin - 'The Pleasure of your Company'.
Location: Artbay Gallery, 13 Marine Parade, Queenstown
Region: Queenstown
Dates: Thu, 7 July 2022 - Sun, 7 August 2022 @ 11am - 5pm, 7days
One of Australia's most renowned artists, Kate Bergin’s fantastical oil paintings feature all animals posed on tabletops with spoons, guns, keys, spectacles, and rotary telephones.
While the artist was a student at the Victorian College of the Arts in the early 1990s, frequent visits to the National Gallery of Victoria had a profound impact. Bergin’s paintings riff on European still-life traditions and historical depictions of hunting and collecting.
In The Watchers (2015), she nods to a common motif in 17th-century Dutch vanitas paintings; the apple peel hanging over the table ledge recalls a perspectival trick popular among artists like Clara Peeters and Willem Claesz Heda.
The artist observes live animals at the zoo and museum taxidermy displays to create her realistic depictions. Yet, in her final compositions, the artist bends reality, allowing animals of various species to coexist. These surrealistic tableaux gently mock our concepts of a “civilized” society.
Location
Artbay Gallery, 13 Marine Parade, Queenstown
May 2024
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5 | 6 | 7 | Register Now - Drawing Classes for Children with Marion Vialade-WorchMon, 29 April 2024 - Wed, 8 May 2024 @ Register Now | 9 | The Central Otago Regional Choir - "Bach, Bacharach and The Beatles" in Alexandra, Arrowtown and Wanaka.Fri, 10 May 2024 - Sun, 12 May 2024 | 11 |
Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - "Painting, Pottery and Pixels"Wed, 17 April 2024 - Sun, 12 May 2024 @ 10am - 4pm Daily The Central Otago Regional Choir - "Bach, Bacharach and The Beatles" in Alexandra, Arrowtown and Wanaka.Fri, 10 May 2024 - Sun, 12 May 2024 Hullabaloo Art Space - "Hidden Agendas" by Jen Olson.Sun, 12 May 2024 - Sat, 1 June 2024 @ 10am - 4pm Daily Hullabaloo Art Space - "Grey Skies/ Dark Fields" by Ro BradshawSun, 12 May 2024 - Sat, 1 June 2024 @ 10am - 4pm Daily | 13 | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - "What is Misogyny?" by Megan Huffadine.Tue, 14 May 2024 - Sun, 16 June 2024 @ 10am - 4pm Daily | 15 | 16 | Ophir Peace Memorial Hall - Tess Liautaud - Gold Digger TourFri, 17 May 2024 @ Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start | 18 |
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