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5 – 30 Aug

Burder, Watson Knight and Johnson: colour.field.echo

  • Free
  • Art

The respective works of Michele Burder, Susan Watson Knight and Amanda Johnson variously contain figurative and abstract elements, often with unconventional and high-key palettes.

Michele Burder’s paintings explore views from roads as seen through bus or car windows, as well as those captured on walks through public parks and local reserves. The paintings play with distortion, subtle colour schemes and echoing forms.

In Susan Watson Knight’s recent work, traditional quilting shapes have provided the starting point for the development of high-coloured pigment prints. Pigment prints variously evolve through ongoing experimentation with shape and colour and exaggerated blurring techniques.

Amanda Johnson works directly with echoes of colonial landscape genres and site-specific observation of degraded ‘wilderness’ areas. The artist’s most recent depictions of botanical infestations and logging aftermath arise from field trips to the Otway State Forest, Tarkine and Florentine Valley.

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Tue 5 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Wed 6 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Thu 7 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Fri 8 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Sat 9 Aug
  • 12pm - 4pm 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Tue 12 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Wed 13 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Thu 14 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Fri 15 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Sat 16 Aug
  • 12pm - 4pm 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Tue 19 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Wed 20 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Thu 21 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Fri 22 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Sat 23 Aug
  • 12pm - 4pm 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Tue 26 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Wed 27 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Thu 28 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Fri 29 Aug
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Sat 30 Aug
  • 12pm - 4pm 12:00pm - 4:00pm

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fortyfivedownstairs
45 Flinders Ln
Melbourne 3000

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  • telephone number: 03 9662 9966
  • email address: info@fortyfivedownstairs.com
  • Visit website for Burder, Watson Knight and Johnson: colour.field.echo
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