TDF Collect: A Brightness Falls
‘A flower falls, even though we love it. A weed grows, even though we do not love it.’ ⏤ Shunryu Suzuki.
In a return to botanical inspiration, this exhibition has been an exploration of colour for Sydney artist Adriana Picker. Best known for her distinctive works on paper, characterised by painstakingly intricate line work, Adriana has relished the opportunity to extend her practice into mixed media painting.
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Retaining elements of this signature style, Adriana’s latest body of work leaps head first into a joyous new world of bold colour, movement and texture. Vibrantly lush, hyper-real foliage and flora appear almost other-worldly, in a heady palette of vivid pinks, mauves and deep aubergines.
A Brightness Falls is a celebration of Adriana's life-long passion for nature and the botanical form, seeded in early childhood by time spent in her Grandmother’s garden. The often-overlooked beauty and texture of ordinary ‘Nana plants’ - Nasturtiums, Pelargoniums and Bromeliads - is rediscovered in a bold, contemporary context.
Photos by Amelia Stanwix care of The Design Files
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A Brightness Falls
4th - 9th March 2017
TDF Collect
14 Little Oxford St
Collingwood, VIC -
Opening:
Saturday 4th March
Gallery open from 10am
Opening drinks from 2pm - 5pmSun 5th March: 11am - 3pm
Mon 6th March: CLOSED
Tues 7th March, 10am - 4pm
Wed 8th March, 10am - 4pm
Thurs 9th March, 10am - 4pm
