‘Romancing the Streetscape’ is a group exhibition celebrating the streetscapes and buildings of the great city of Melbourne.
With a mastery of paint, the featured artists slip between direct observation and imagination, revealing their unique perspectives of urban existence and our shared experiences of place within this community. Highly realistic and evocative images of inner-city scenes reflect the romanticism often associated with traditional landscape painting.
The resulting portrait of Melbourne is both endearing and surprising, encouraging audiences to appreciate the metropolis around us and the overlooked in the everyday.
Featuring: Rick Amor, William Breen, Andrew Browne, Mark Chu, Robert Clinch, Cathy Drummond and Dani McKenzie.
Image credit: William Breen, ‘Wet Paint’, 2020, gouache on paper, 47 x 70cm, image courtesy of the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery.
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Rick Amor, ‘Where the boulevards end II’, 2015, oil on canvas, 97 x 130cm, image courtesy of the artist and Niagara Galleries.
Rick Amor, ‘The doorway’, 2021, oil on canvas, 117 x 92cm, image courtesy of the artist and Niagara Galleries.
William Breen, ‘Wet Paint’, 2020, gouache on paper, 47 x 70cm, image courtesy of the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery.
William Breen, ‘Made with Love’, 2012, oil on linen, 107 x 214cm, image courtesy of the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery.
Andrew Browne, ‘A weed is a plant in the wrong place’, 2021, oil and alkyd on linen, 92 x 64cm, image courtesy of the artist. Private Collection.
Mark Chu, ‘McDonalds Hawthorn’, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 61 x 76cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Robert Clinch, 'Fanfare for the Common Man', 2003, egg tempera on panel, 107 x 105cm, image courtesy of the artist and Lauraine Diggins Fine Art. Private Collection.
Cathy Drummond, 'Hot Potatoes', 2017, 122 x 138cm, oil on linen, image courtesy of the artist.
Dani McKenzie, 'That Little Italian Place on the Corner', 2022, oil and acrylic on linen, 107 x 152cm, image courtesy of the artist and MARS Gallery. Private Collection.
