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PRESENCE ABSENCE at ARO Gallery 2021

  • Mark O'Ryan
  • Mar 21, 2021
  • 1 min read

This work explores the beauty of a blackened landscape. Learning to love a blackened earth after the devastation wrought by last summer's bushfires is not easy. It involves a change in aesthetic thinking to alter our appreciation of what much of the Australian landscape really looks like. Beauty is often not where we are conditioned to look but it there in the minimalism and black hollows. Black is also about renewal, fertility and regeneration.

Ultimately, the purpose of this work is to invite the viewer to discover beauty in unusual places in the landscape and question the balance of nature and intervention, deconstruction and reconstruction, human absence and presence.

Opening Event: Saturday 20 March, 2 to 5 pm

Closing Event: Sunday 28 March, 1 to 4 pm

Joint Exhibition: Adam Fisher and Mark O’Ryan

ARO GALLERY

51 WILLIAM STREET

DARLINGHURST NSW 2010


  1. Absence in Ash

    Laminated Victorian Ash, ceramic base 

    $1500


  2. Absence in Ash 2

    Laminated Victorian Ash, ceramic work by pot. pawrie

    $2400


  3. Absence in Ash 3

    Laminated Victorian Ash. ceramic base

    $1200


  4. Pod 4

    Laminated lime washed ash wood, ceramic base

    $800


  5. Absence in Ash 5

    Laminated Victorian Ash, ceramic base

    $1500


  6. Absence in Oak 6

    Laminated Oak, ceramic base

    $1800


  7. Absence in Walnut 7

    Laminated walnut, ceramic bases

    $1800


  8. Blackened Heart 

    Laminated Black Hearted Sassafras, ceramic base

    $2100


  9. Blackened Pod

    Laminated BI hearted Sassafras ceramic base

    $1500


  10. Blackened Absence

    Laminated Black Hearted Sassafras ceramic base

    $700


  11. Slow Burn

    Laminated Walnut, Aluminium Ceramic by Pot. pawrie

    $1200



 
 
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