ARTitecture - JAHM

February - September 2024

ARTitecture presents works by artists represented in the JAHM collection, each expressing an idea related to architecture and the built world. However, unlike architects, these artists are unencumbered by the demands of functionality, such as the client brief, regulations, budgets, constructibility, context, sustainability and timeframes that are imposed on architects in producing a work of architecture.

With this unencumbered freedom what are the artists saying? Are they reflecting and critiquing how architecture is created, on how we engage with it when realised? What impact does it have on our lives and what impact does it have on our future?

Using art from the JAHM collection, these big ideas will be explored through interactive guided tours.

Each tour is followed by refreshments in the private apartment where recent acquisitions to the JAHM collection are on display. JAHM tours of ARTitecture are available to book now.

Gernreich’s Muse, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100cm

JUSTIN ART HOUSE MUSEUM

3 Lumley Court
Prahran VIC 3181 Australia

BLUETHUMB - The Art of Inspiration

From the Impressionists to the Abstract Expressionists, The Art of Inspiration presents a diverse range of artistic styles and mediums that pay tribute to the enduring influence of the art world's great movers and shakers.

The selected pieces are original works that capture the spirit and essence of the greats. They offer a new perspective on the legacy of art history, demonstrating that it is not just a relic of the past, but a living and dynamic force that continues to shape the present

Exhibition running from May 25th - June 26th at Bluethumb's Melbourne Gallery - 330 Bridge Rd, Richmond, VIC 3121

Vogue 1967 - 1, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100cm

Vogue 1967 - 2, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100cm

Momentum, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40cm

Horizon (Lawn), 2021, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40cm

BLUETHUMB

330 Bridge Rd, Richmond

THE RETURN - FIVE WALLS (Gallery 3)

15 March - 1 April 2023

THE RETURN stems from a curiosity around the relationship between the mod fashion movement and early to mid-20th-century geometric abstraction. I’ve taken as my influence the mod fashion pioneer Mary Quant - a devotee of the geometric fantasies of Kandinsky and Mondrian - and the American fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, who took influence from the Bauhaus, the Wiener Werkstätte and the Op Art movement.

My paintings reposition the geometry of mod textiles into large format works that merge references to Quant and Gernreich’s designs with the early modernist sources that inspired them.