Wanderers in the Desert of the Real 2011

Wanderers in the Desert of the Real 2011, an exhibition by artist Mandy Martin, will be on show at the Australian Galleries’ Roylston Street gallery in Paddington, Sydney from 17 May to 4 June.

Mandy is a well-known Australian artist and co-editor of Desert Channels: The impulse to conserve, a book that explores the understandings of the Desert Channels country of south-western Queensland.

‘Mandy Martin is a deeply subversive artist, as are all serious romantic painters, which is to say her work is all about individual hope posited against collective despair, beauty against terror, and making you feel something first in the pit of your stomach before you have time to think about it. The results are paintings that often make people weak in the knees, which is exactly the correct response when confronted by the sublime.’*

For further information about Mandy, visit her website.

More information about Australian Galleries can be found here.

* Source: William L. Fox on Wanderers in the Desert of the Real 2009
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Item posted on 2 May 2011.