Hardware Gallery launches two new solo exhibitions this month in the lead up to the 2011 Sydney Fringe Festival, a celebration of the city’s independent artistic talent. Sydney artists Jo Shand and Clyth Hoult will both feature in a joint launch of painting exhibitions that feature images of well known Sydney locations as well as imagined landscapes.
Jo Shand’s exhibition, The Road Goes Ever Onwards is a documentation of the changing face of Newtown and Sydney’s innerwest through a series of acrylic and ink works that depict some of the areas best known and loved architectural landmarks and local icons. From Newtown’s famous “I Have a Dream” mural to much loved buildings and streets of the area, Jo Shand has sought to immortalise particular locations in the face of rapid change within one of Sydney’s most culturally vibrant regions.
Alongside Shand’s exhibition will display the oils on canvas works by Glebe resident and Newtown based artist Clyth Hoult. Hoult’s paintings seek to explore the notions of escapism through playful and sometimes surreal depictions of everyday objects contrasted against idealised landscapes and locals. These two very different artists, using very different styles present the audience with a unique opportunity to examine the changing facade or our city.
Following these August exhibitions at Hardware Gallery will be a series of events as part of The Sydney Fringe Festival, 2011. Hardware Gallery Director and curator of visual arts for this year’s festival, Lew Palaitis has co-ordinated Hardware’s August shows as a taster for what is coming up in September. As well as Hardware Gallery’s 5th annual google exhibition and the monthly experimental music night, Sound Series, September will see Hardware Gallery host Tactility by Chronology Arts and also be instrumental in co-ordinating a series of major curated exhibitions across Sydney. Many artists associated with Hardware Gallery will feature in exhibitions at Carriageworks, The Italian Forum in Lechhardt, Parramatta Riverside Theatre, The Seymour Centre and the soon to opened Concourse in Chatswood.
What: Jo Shand and Clyth Hoult – Solo exhibitions
When: Opening Tuesday 9 August, 6-8pm
Where: 263 Enmore Rd, Enmore
Exhibition Dates: 9 – 20 August, 2011
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm
Cost: Free
Web: hardwaregallery.com.au
Contact: Lew Palaitis – 9550 4595
