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Small
Gems
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December
4th - February 2nd
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Metro
5 Gallery has invited 15 of Australia's greatest living artists to participate
in this major exhibition entitled "Small Gems" - paintings that
may be small in size but are truly "major" works of art.
The majority
of these artists have painted these "Small Gems' to a 40 cm high
x 50 cm wide formula. The participating artists were encouraged to standardize
to this configuration, just as in the late 19th century a small group
of Melbourne artists (Streeton, Conder, Roberts, etc.) stormed the art-world
with an exhibition of paintings which were all 9 inches by 5 inches. |
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Tim Storrier |
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The
standard and variety of these "Small Gems;' has impressed us all -
from our senior artists John Olsen and Tim Storrier to our youngest, Jason
Benjamin, Hazel Dooney and Zhong Chen.
Judge for yourselves. The participating
artists are (in alphabetical order) Yvonne Audette, Jason Benjamin, Sadie
Chandler, Zhong Chen, Hazel Dooney, Leonard French, David Laity, Steve
Lopes, John Olsen, Victor Rubin, Andrew Sibley, Wendy Stavrianos, Tim
Storrier, Yifeng Tan and Hadyn Wilson. |
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Jason Benjamin |
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David
Laity
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