The Crevice, Milani Gallery 2010

Dream Weapon is a crevice painting by Australian artist Madeleine Kelly Ten Years of Contemporary Art: The James C Sourris Collection QAGOMA Milani
Dream Weapon 2010 Oil and aluminium paint on polyester 110 x 170cm

In these works, inspired by a trip to the Kimberley, the crevice functions in a number of conceptual ways; the form of the crevice lends shape to the split, and the dialectic of the split – a term that implies rupture and limitation – is expressed initially through this form. The vertical natural walls of a crevice correspond to built walls; as a site conflating the ‘natural’ and the ‘cultural’, they suggest the cultural structures that enclose us and dictate our paths (such as money and finite resources).

Madeleine Kelly Erscheinen 2010 Installation: pinpricked Foamcore, light , 294 x 234 x 490cm
Erscheinen 2010 Installation: pinpricked Foamcore, light , 294 x 234 x 490cm
Binary Love.
Binary Love 2010 oil on board 43 x 70.5cm
Gathering as Usual 2010 Oil on polyester 110 x 100cm
Gathering as Usual 2010 Oil on polyester 110 x 100cm
Protean world is a crevice painting by Australian artist Madeleine Kelly Ten Years of Contemporary Art: The James C Sourris, QAGOMA collection Milani
Protean World 2010 Oil and aluminium paint on polyester 170 x 110cm

Since landscape is the locus upon which we form our collective memory – both the expression of our romanticised national identity and shared history of colonial exploitation – the depiction of the Australian landscape is a site of contestation, being the interface of human activity and exploitation.

The Golden Hour 2010 Oil on board 35 x 17cm
The Golden Hour 2010 Oil on board 35 x 17cm
Mushrooms from my Kelvin Grove Pot Plant 2010 Oil on board 24 x 19cm
Mushrooms from my Kelvin Grove Pot Plant 2010 Oil on board 24 x 19cm
Alchemic Sky 2010 Oil on polyester 76 x 120cm
Spectrum Filling Space Oil on polyester 2010 110 x 110cm
Spectrum Filling Space Oil on polyester 2010 110 x 110cm
Lord of the Earth 2010 Oil and aluminium paint on polyester 170 x 110cm
Lord of the Earth 2010 Oil and aluminium paint on polyester 170 x 110cm
Featured Work

Dream Weapon 2010 Oil and aluminium paint on polyester 110 x 170cm

Gallery

Milani Gallery

Dates

9th - 25th September 2010