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‘Bricolage is a French word that refers to the act of taking disparate elements, tinkering with them and patching them together. It is not an art-term per se. Its connotations are more to do with the notions of “ pottering about “ or “ making do”. It is a term that the Post-modernist generation seized upon as one way of attempting to describe that difficult and somewhat confused position – indeed it is echoed in the title of the Australian post-modern critic, Paul Taylor’s book “Anything Goes”. |
Just think of the work of some of today’s art superstars – Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney for example - and there you have it.
This small current exhibition at John Buckley Gallery looks at what some Australian artists have been doing with collage and assemblage over a period of some thirty years. For artists such as Madonna Staunton, Rosalie Gascoigne and Murray Walker, the twin genres have been central to their life- time practice. For others like Gareth Sansom, Peter Atkins, Katherine Hattam and Domenico de Clario, collage and assemblage have run parallel with their concerns as painters or, as in the case of Luke Roberts, to his work as a performance and installation artist. The exhibition also includes the work of some younger artists such as Kate Rhode, William Mackinnon, Carl Scrase, Nick Mangan and Simon Strong – to illustrate that collage and assemblage are still powerful and seductive mediums which continue to hold sway in these uncertain, post, post-modern times. |
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