TarraWarra Museum of Art has unveiled three new exhibitions open to the public concurrently from 23 March to 14 July 2024.
Featuring new work by Melbourne-based contemporary artists Peter Atkins and Dana Harris, the exhibition SUPERsystems is presented in conversation with The Industrial Design of Clement Meadmore: The Harris/Atkins Collection, a comprehensive survey of innovative modernist designs by the acclaimed sculptor and designer Clement Meadmore. Also on display is Systems and Structures, featuring a selection of works by leading Australian artists drawn from the Museum?s collection.
?These three new exhibitions provide an exciting opportunity to consider new and recent works by leading contemporary artists in conversation with paintings, sculptures and designs by significant figures of Australian modernism,” said TarraWarra Museum of Art Curator Anthony Fitzpatrick. “TarraWarra Museum of Art is fortunate to have worked closely with Dana Harris and Peter Atkins, not only to premiere their most recent bodies of abstract work, but also to share their outstanding collection of modernist designs and sculptures by Clement Meadmore. Meadmore?s distinctive visual language was often informed by the modernist principles of the Bauhaus and the De Stijl movement?a source of inspiration shared by Harris and Atkins. The third exhibition of predominantly abstract painting and sculpture by Australian artists from the Museum?s own collection, deepens this sustaine...