Art thoughts

4th Australian Biennale of Reductive Arts

ABORA 4
6–28 September 2025
Articulate project space

497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt NSW
Friday–Sunday, 11am–5pm
Saturday 6 September, 3–5pm

https://www.articulateprojectspace.org/

Curator: Beata Geyer

Artists: Aaron Martin, Angharad Evans, Annelies Jahn, Anya Pesce, Beata Geyer, Belinda Yee, Billy Gruner, Brent Hallard, Chantal Grech, Chris Packer, Christine Dean, Cornelis Timmer, Deb Covell, Don Voisine, Elizabeth Day, Elizabeth Rankin, Elke Wohlfahrt, Gary Warner and Audrey Warner, Giles Ryder, Helen Shields, Isobel Johnston, Jamie Jude Smith, Jan Handel, Kate Galea, Kate Mackay, Kath O'Donnell, Kendal Heyes, Kyle Jenkins, Laurence Kimmel, Lisa Jones, Lisa Pang, Liz Shreeve, Louise Blyton, Louise Owen, Louise P Sloane, Luna Gui, Lynne Eastaway, Margaret Roberts, Mark Titmarsh, Marlene Sarroff, Merryn Trevethan, Neerja Chandna Peters, Nicole Ellis, Penny Coss, Peter de Lorenzo, Phong Le, Pia Larsen, PJ Hickman, Pollyxenia Joannou, Raymond Carter, Rolande Souliere, Sandra Curry, Sarah Fitzgerald, Sarah Keighery, Sarah Robson, Shelley Jardine, Sue Callanan, Susan Andrews, Suzan Shutan, Tarn McLean, Terri Brooks, Tilman, Tom Loveday, Yvette Hamilton

Selected exhibiton images:

Photos by artist, Louise Blyton.

Curator Beata Geyer with artist Chris Packer.

8th International Biennale of Non Objective Arts

Curated by Arvid Boecker

Kunstraum Heidelberg

Germany
To October 3

https://www.vielmehr.heidelberg.de/dankstelle/boeckercontemporary-heidelberg/

Five Walls Gallery and Project Spaces

To August 30

1/119 Hopkins st, Footscray
https://fivewalls.com.au

‘5 Abstractions’ curated by Aaron Martin
Lachlan Stonehouse, Emma Langridge, Aaron Martin, John Aslanidis, Michael Vandorpe (BE)

Installation image:

L-R: Lachlan Stonehouse, Aaron Martin

‘Invocations’ Fiona Schoer

Selected work:

Fiona Schoer, Everything You’ve Ever Wanted, 2025,
oil, on Masonite, vintage frame 53.5 x 46 cm.

‘Folded’ Raymond Carter

The exhibition features wall paintings and intimate bronze sculptures cast from folded cardboard.

Installation Images

Australian Biennale of Reductive Arts (ABORA – 4)

Installation images:

L-R: Don Voisine, Kyle Jenkins, Louise Blyton

L-R: Aaron Martin, Billy Gruner, Sarah Keighley

L-R: Turn McLean, PJ Hickman, Beata Geyer

Five Walls

To June 28th

1/119 Hopkins st, Footscray, 3011
https://fivewalls.com.au/

Selected works

Gallery

John Aslanidis 'Sonic Network no.25'

sonic network no.102, 2025, oil and acrylic on canvas, 92 x 123 cm.

Project Spaces

Thalia Robertson 'The Third Element'

Diptych 2, 2025, oil and graphite on wood, 24 x 24 cm each panel.

Elif Sezen 'Atmospheres'

Elif Sezen with her works. L: Presence #9, R: Presence #10, 2025.
Both are archival prints on Hahnemühle photo rag metallic (framed). Edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP, 105 x 105 cm.

Britt Salt & Shannon Slee 'Me and the Girls Don’t Want to be Boxed'

Shannon Slee: String of Geese #1, 2025, wool, jute, cotton warp, copper, painted steel, 110 x 50 x 21 cm.
String of Geese #2, 2025, wool, cotton selvedge remnant from Britt, jute, cotton warp, copper,
painted steel, 106 x 50 x 21 cm.

Britt Salt: Grid II (Reverse), 2023, wool and cotton, 97 x 91 cm.

Objective Abstraction

Group exhibition

To 15 June 2025
Tacit Art
314 Johnston St, Abbotsford, Vic.

https://www.tacitart.com.au/

Richard Birmingham

The final show at Tacit Art is fittingly good.

I wish Keith, Tim and family well.

Selected shots:

Robyn Burgess

David Gatiss, (R) Elizabeth Colbert

TJ Bateson

Stefan Gevers, (L) Susan Stevenson

Cat Poljski

Robyn Kinsela

Vietta Korren-Steele

Shane McGowan

Jennifer Joesph

Time Now
To June 7
Niagara
245 Punt Road
Richmond

https://niagaragalleries.com.au/exhibitions/jennifer-joseph-2025

A Little Less Conversation and a Little More Action Please 1, 2023,
acrylic, ink, black gesso, white gesso, charcoal, canvas, hessian

and cotton on linen 122 x 90cm (irregular)

Installation image

We shall overcome, 2020,

acrylic and metal on wood 33.5 x 20.5 x 4.5 cm (irregular)

Installation detail

He said the time will come, 2021-22,

acrylic, ink, conte, pastel, charcoal,

paper and cotton on paper 146.5 x 85.5cm.

Abstraction may have been the primary innovation of Modernism but it is an image methodology dating back to the earliest examples of human innovation.

There are echoes of others within Jennifer Joseph's works. It's an informed educated aesthetic. Late Modernists that came to mind included Tony Tuckson, Colin McCahon, Rosalie Gascoigne, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly.

Individually within the small works installation, each work is constructed with such finesse and suggestion that they evoked pure joy for the painter within me. Every work hovers on its own unique outcome. The speed of a brush stroke at the base of a composition, the proportions of what seems a found lump of wood with dribbles on the side that make the face of the painting work. It's a masterful collection.

Joseph works at night and the sombre light in her paintings cast a unique tone and mood over her personal iterations.

The two large works in the show are outstanding examples of Australian Abstraction. They are quite simply world class painting.