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Anna Caione &

Fiona Halse

White on White

West End Art Space

28 August to 21 September, 2019

Melbourne

Margaret Olley:

A Generous Life

Queensland Art Gallery |

Gallery of Modern Art

Until 13 October, 2019

Queensland

Paying tribute to Kazimir Malevich’s

Suprematist Composition: White on White

(1918), Melbourne artists Anna Caione and

Fiona Halse present a series of paintings

that explore the philosophical and poetic

associations of the colour white.

Caione and Halse express the synergies and

divergences in their approach to abstraction

and monochromatic qualities through the

process of surface manipulation, gestural

expression and subtle variations, bringing the

achromatic hue to life with an assortment of

personal meanings and range of intriguing

interpretive possibilities.

Anna Caione, White #7, 2019, mixed media on canvas,

100 x 100cm

Courtesy the artist and West End Art Space, Melbourne

Nicholas Harding, Olley (The Tweed Portrait), 2017

Courtesy the artist and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern

Art, Brisbane

Margaret Olley (1923-2011) immersed herself

in art, her own as well as those she supported.

This retrospective celebrates Olley’s

extraordinary life as an artist, mentor, friend,

collector and donor, featuring more than 100

paintings and drawings from throughout

her career, including her formative years in

Brisbane. Olley’s enduring love of nature

found expression in exuberant still life works,

while her self-portraits and interiors shared

colourful compositions and raw, intimate

self-reflection. The exhibition includes

depictions of Olley by other artists, and works

she collected.

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