Shadows are the dark side of light. They come in many mysterious forms; shadows fall, they lie in corners, behind rocks, lengthening in twilight. Artists love the pattern and play of light and dark: delicious green shade on a hot day in the works of Carrick-Fox and Meldrum, a strange space dimly lit in the works of Amor and Bellette. Dusk and gloaming in the images of Beckett and Wolfhagen. Faces are transformed through shadow in the paintings of Polly Hurry and David Davies and in the photographs of Julie Millowick and Hugh Frankland. The exhibition also includes works which hint at moral shadiness in Noel Counihan's Business and Rick Amor's The Call.
This exhibition draws on works from the CAM collection and features paintings, photographs and works on paper.
Acknowledgments
Artists include Rick Amor, Clarice Beckett, Jean Bellette, Penleigh Boyd, Ethel Carrick Fox, Noel Counihan, David Davies, Hugh Frankland, Polly Hurry, Charles Houen, George Lambert, Percy Leason, Fred Leist, Frederick McCubbin, Max Meldrum, Julie Millowick, Florence Rodway, Jeffrey Smart, Arthur Streeton, Dora Wilson, Philip Wolfhagen.
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