PCA Gallery

Now showing

Marcus O’Donnell: The Adjacent Possible

14-31 October

Opening: Thursday 16 October, 5pm-7pm

My hybrid traditional-digital prints explore pattern, chaos and complexity at the intersection of bodies, sexuality, and landscape. The ‘Strange appearance’ series overprints photogravure key plates, (developed through layering several original images of urban gardens) onto multiple colour pigment prints of close focus details of flowers or foliage. This process creates micro landscapes and variants which change in colour and form as layers intersect. This exhibition uses three different key plates over a repeated sequence of the same twenty colour underprints. These different approaches to variation, multiplicity and adjacency speak to both possibility and mutation: the open and the determined aspects of change and of printmaking processes. The title of the series refers to what philosopher Timothy Morton calls the “strange strangeness” of perception in the age of the Anthropocene. The series investigates what Morton calls ‘dark ecology’, our troublesome representation of ‘nature’, all at once beautiful, monstrous and mysterious.

Now showing

Time and Again:
Amy Grover, Lucas Jennings, Odin Strbac Low

14-31 October

Opening: Thursday 16 October, 5pm-7pm

Time and Again is an exploration of the incredibility and contingency present in print as a process of making and how those forces are intermingled with life and existence. The exhibition takes inspiration from a quote by poet Rainer Maria Rilke in which he refers to the broadness of existence and the importance of embracing the unpredictability of life. Grover, Jennings and Strbac Low, as print-informed artists, aim to draw attention to the way print is inherently connected to these concepts of unpredictability. Each artist has produced an entirely new body of working response to the afore mentioned subject matter, allowing experimentation and randomness to inform their realisation. These themes through a multitude of different methods, such as various intaglio techniques, lithography, and artists’ books that incorporate unorthodox materials such stone, wood and brass.

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Showcasing the best in contemporary printmaking the PCA Gallery operates a  changing exhibition program that presents new works made by emerging and established practitioners, in both group or solo exhibitions.

Established in 1966 the Print Council of Australia Inc. (PCA) is the peak body representing and connecting our national communities in printmaking and works on paper.

Based in Melbourne this national organisation promotes and supports contemporary artists working in print media, and advocates for the appreciation of printmaking, artist books and works on paper as a vibrant field of creative endeavour in the Australian context.

The PCA Gallery is located in Melbourne’s designated Arts Precinct. Close to the CBD, the gallery is a short walk to the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Recital Centre, and the National Gallery of Victoria amongst other cultural destinations.

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