Evocations

Liam Benson, Nicholas Folland, Lonnie Hutchinson, Hellen Shelley, Nick Tsiavos & Deborah Kayser, Kellie Wells

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising…
Joseph Conrad

In its capacity to take viewers into the realm of possibility whilst remaining firmly grounded in the present, every work of art can be considered an evocation. In this sense, the reading of a work is not confined to what is seen and extends to what is experienced. As such, through art, imagery and objects can be understood as a mediation between an earthly physical state and a spiritual dimension. It is not the suggestion of this exhibition that the selected artists are experts in or even practice any specific spiritual modalities, but rather to point to readings of their works that are associated with the presence of invisible realities associated with transcendence, transformation, manifestation and dissolution.

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Evocations Liam Benson, Nicholas Folland, Lonnie Hutchinson, Hellen Shelley, Nick Tsiavos & Deborah Kayser, Kellie Wells Curator: David Sequeira Installation: Margaret Lawrence Gallery Date: 2020 Photographer: Christo Crocker

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2023 History & Infinity, University of NSW Galleries
2022 All the things I should have said that I never said, Bunjil Place, Victoria
2022 Song Cycle, Northern Festival of the Arts, Townsville
2022 #brownmaninawhitemuseum, Grainger Museum, Melbourne
2021 Fugue amplified, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2019 The Eternal Return, Five Walls Projects, Melbourne
2018 Fugue, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne
2018 David &, Five Walls Projects, Melbourne
2016 Colour Sense, Lab 14 Carlton Connect
2016 A Sacred Conversation, Five Walls Projects, Melbourne
2016 Encounters, Gallery Smith Project Space
2015 ENP 26, Everything Nothing Projects,
2013 Monochrome, City of Wyndham Gallery
2012 ENP 21, David Sequeira Everything Nothing Projects
2009 Without you I’m nothing, Nature Morte, New Delhi India
2008 The beginner’s guide to harmony, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
2008 48 books about art, University of Sydney Art Gallery
2008 Somewhere Sometime, Ryan Renshaw Gallery Brisbane
2007 All I want is here, Nature Morte, New Delhi India
2007 Eternal Rhythms, 1996-2006, Curtin University Gallery, Perth
2004 Now is a Gift, Southside Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004 Seeing things, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2003 The Space Between Us, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2001 David Sequeira Projects, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2001 Concentric Circles, Scott Donovan Gallery Sydney
2000 David Sequeira, Gallery 4a, Sydney
1998 A leaf from my book, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
1998 Centre, AGOG, Canberra
1998 Chapter, Renard Wardell Gallery, Melbourne
1997 thirty-one threads, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023 The National 4: Australian Art NOW, Art Gallery NSW
2023 TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
2020 Paint Vs Colour, Five Walls Projects, curators Christoph Dalhausen & Michael Graeve
2020 Out is out, 2020, Wyndham Art Gallery, Megan Evans curator
2020 collector/ collected, 2019, Sheparton Art Museum, curator, Rebecca Coates
2019 Colour is a Verb, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2016 Race, Wyndham Art Gallery, Megan Evans curator
2015 Colour Imperative, 2015, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne Neil Shurgold curator
2015 Dalhausen Viral, Kunstmeseum Ahlen, Germany, Christoph Dalhausen curator
2014 Pulse, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, Mark Bayley curator
2014 Colour Music, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, Anthony Oates curator
2013 Op Shop, Maitland Regional Gallery, Fiona Davies curator
2012 You Give Good Colour, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Claudia Damichi curator
2012 Fabre Jetzt, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, Germany,  Christoph Dahlhausen curator
2012 ENP 4 Concentric Circles, Everything Nothing Projects, Canberra
2011 ENP2 Monochrome Painting, Everything Nothing Projects, Canberra
2011 COLOUR light TIME, Two Rooms, Auckland, David Thomas curator
2009 The Recycled Library: Altered Books, Artspace Mackay, Michael Wardell curator
2008 Under the influence, QUT, Brisbane, Simone Jones & Megan Williams curators
2006 The Colour of Music, Central Gallery, Adelaide
2005 The Roving Eye, Gigantic Art Space, New York, Lea Rekow curator
2005 Southside, The Mac Contemporary, Dallas, Richard Brettell curator
2004 Flora Nova, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Contour, Megalo Studio and Gallery, Canberra, Paul Peasley curator
2002 Material Witness Tamworth Regional Gallery, Robyn Daw curator
2002 Giant Molecules & Carbon Copies, Penthouse & Pavement Gallery, Melbourne, John Nicholson curator
2001 Artful Park, Centennial Park Sydney, MCA curator
2001 Rogue Plastic, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Jane Barney curator