​Abstract Nature / 30 July – 8 October 2010


Image: Abstract Nature, 2010, installation view, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia. Photography by Sam Noonan. 

Abstract Nature features works of art in a wide range of media, all of which are inspired by the immanent beauty of organic pattern and form in the Australian landscape – from the microsphere of natural life to the macro patterns of the continent seen from above. Fluid linear abstraction, organic mark making, natural tones and textures embody the spirit of place and evoke the artists’ sense of connectivity between mind and nature.

Guest curator Margot Osborne has selected works by twenty Australian artists, including Nyukana (Daisy) Baker/Robin Best, Giles Bettison, Julie Blyfield, GW Bot, Tim Burns, Pippin Drysdale, Philip Hunter, Jessica Loughlin, Djambawa Marawilli, Wanyubi Marika, Leslie Matthews, Julie Ryder, Jenny Sages, Catherine Truman, Angela Valamanesh, Regina Wilson, Shona Wilson, Richard Woldendorp and Catherine Woo.

A Samstag Museum of Art exhibition.

Abstract Nature catalogue.

 

Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, acknowledges the Kaurna people as traditional custodians of the land upon which the Museum stands.