Ariel’s Song, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in association with Perth Festival, 12 February – 23 April 2022
Luisa Hansal, Jess Tan & Wade Taylor with works from the UWA Art Collection
Ariel’s Song celebrates how art can open a door between worlds. It is an exhibition about shipwrecked feelings, rich and strange transformations and magical thinking that places contemporary artists Luisa Hansal, Jess Tan and Wade Taylor in conversation with surreal and stormy visions from the UWA Art Collection.
Curated by Gemma Weston, this exhibition featured new paintings and drawings by Luisa Hansal, Jess Tan and Wade Taylor in dialogue with ocean-scapes from the UWA Art Collection. The artists’ approaches to painting are variously representational, emotional and sculptural, offering a mediation on how artists can open a door between worlds, or suggest mysterious forces at work beneath the surface of this one.
White Hills, 2022, oil on wood, 83 x 63 cm
Blue Crescent, 2022, oil on wood, 43 x 43 cm, University of Western Australia Collection
Port, 2022, oil on wood, 32 x 42 cm, University of Western Australia Collection
Beach Road, 2022, oil on wood, 63 x 63 cm
Deepdale, 2022, oil on wood, 42 x 45 cm, University of Western Australia Collection
Marlee, 2022, oil on wood, 42 x 32 cm
Ariel's Song, install view