A celebration of painting is on at La Trobe Art Institute, with the launch of current exhibition Support Structure. Artwork has flown in from New Zealand and come across from South Australia, to join the work of Victorian artists presented across both galleries and in the foyer of the venue on View Street.
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For some time, there has been a push to recognise the objectness of painting – to acknowledge that two-dimensional pictures on canvas and board are something more than planar images. After all, the materials required to produce a painting are three-dimensional liquids, cloths, timbers and powders. So it’s fair to make a case that paintings are sculptural objects to some extent. They are not sculptures, but they are in some sense sculptural.
Support Structure assembles the work of artists who paint in a sculptural way. Featuring Emma Coulter (from Kyneton), Jake Walker (NZ), Kate Tucker, Louise Blyton, Mumu Mike Williams (SA) and Sam Martin. Acknowledging the physicality of paintings these artists produce artwork that blurs the boundary between media and offers ways of rethinking the nature of contemporary painting.