Arriving Slowly
Installation view, Arriving Slowly, Ipswich Art Gallery, 2024. Photography by Kelley Sheenan.
17 Nov 2024 — 16 Feb 2025
Installation view, Arriving Slowly, Ipswich Art Gallery, 2024. Photography by Kelley Sheenan.
Dates | Sunday 17 November 2024 to Sunday 16 February 2025 |
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Times | Arriving Slowly is open 10am-5pm daily, seven days a week from 17 November-27 January. (closed 24 Dec 2024- 1 Jan 2025 inclusive). |
Cost | FREE |
Booking | Opening event // Saturday 16 November // 5:30-7:30pm // RSVP via link below |
Age | all ages welcome |
Exploring the Abstract.
At the heart of Arriving Slowly: Exploring the Abstract is a desire to enable audiences to connect slowly and deeply with works of abstraction. Viewers are invited to take their time, immersing themselves in the works to uncover the diverse meanings that unfold through slow, deliberate looking.
This exhibition aims to create a dialogue between 20 contemporary Australian artists working across the expanded definition of abstraction, with artists working across mediums and modes of display. Included in this exhibition are works from our collection, local artists and contemporary artists from across the country.
The works hail from diverse artistic lineages, but through exploration of gesture, line, shape, and colour, they create an environment for audiences to make space for their own interpretation and experience. Meaning is not didactic, singular, or prescriptive and therefore Arriving Slowly gently opens the conversation about the democratisation of experience and viewing.
Arriving Slowly was curated in response to works by Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and Agnes Martin (1912-2004 )that Ipswich Art Gallery has on loan from the National Gallery of Australia as part of its Sharing the National Collection / Art Across Australia program.
Both Rothko and Martin were prolific communicators of their creative intentions, and their musings are immediately transferable to works in the exhibition. Rothko had a profound desire to express and evoke emotion through his painting, creating a state of intimacy and searching for 'pockets of silence' where we, the audience, can grow. Similarly, Martin said the response she hoped to draw from people with her art was pure abandon, as if leaving themselves behind.
We hope to have created a quiet dialogue between contemporary Australian artists and two of last century’s significant figures.
Arriving Slowly is an Ipswich Art Gallery exhibition featuring contemporary abstract works by:
Lincoln Austin
Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman
Leonard Brown
Consuelo Cavaniglia
Lottie Consalvo
Margery Edwards
Ian Friend
Michael Georgetti
D Harding
Robert Hunter
Paul Knight
Lindy Lee
Taree Mackenzie
Hilarie Mais
Ross Manning
Dawn NG
Jonny Niesche
Rosslynd Piggott
Sandra Selig
Amber Wallis
Slow Looking Tour: Arriving Slowly
1 December 24 - 16 February 25
Join Ipswich Art Gallery Visitor Services team for a unique guided tour of Arriving Slowly.