OYSTER MAGAZINE talks to Julian Meagher
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Julian Meagher in his Sydney studio
JULIAN MEAGHER | THE AUSTRALIAN
“JULIAN Meagher is not comfortable wearing a pink shirt, and wonders why this might be a common dilemma for a modern male.”
Read Sallie Don’s article about Julian Meagher’s latest exhibition “The King of Good Times” in The Australian HERE.
'The King of good times' 2011 150 x 180cm oil on linen
Stefan Dunlop – Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
SHIPS 2011 oil on linen 168 x 366 cm
I’ve always found the painting medium incredibly alluring and visceral, to be something of real beauty and worthy of pursuit, you know… I just love it. I look at really great paintings and it makes me want to be a part of that thing that painting is.
With each work I try to push it past where I have gone before and towards what I consider to be good painting. Presently this includes thinking less about perfection in the works. This approach is currently working and the messiness is ‘allowing’ me to paint. I’m trying to avoid tightness, perfection and excessive thought within the work.
Rum Sodomy and the Lash
New Paintings and book launch
25 July – 13 August
Priscilla Bracks in Istanbul
Priscilla Bracks and Gavin Sade’s collaborative artwork Suzumushi : the silent swarm, has been selected for the Juried Exhibition at the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) which will this year be held in Istanbul. This interactive work was first presented at the State Library Queensland. For this installation, Bracks and Sade connected the cricket swarm to the Library’s search database so crickets could ‘hear’ words people searching for. These words which are displayed on LED screens on the cricket’s backs, spread throughout the swarm of 55 crickets like a meme and each cricket learns the term from a neighbouring cricket. The work will be installed at the Galata Mevlevihanesi Museum in Istanbul. Once a whirling dervish hall, this site is now a Museum of Turkish Literature. Bracks and Sade are currently adapting the interactive characteristics of the work to suit this new location.
Seven Cluster Crickets
