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Retro-Active New paintings by Mitchel Smith & Shiela Luck Curated by Peter Hide These large-scale paintings will take over both gallery spaces at Harcourt House Arts Centre. Using colour, selective and decisive placement of paint, these mid-career artists present a new body of work curated by local sculptor, Peter Hide. As a sculptor, Hide has a somewhat different aesthetic to bear than that of a painter, influencing the curation of this exhibition as well as the work of Smith and Luck for the past thirty years. This show has been titled Retro-Active to underline the dual nature of the show, in that it’s the work of two fine artists, Mitchel Smith and Sheila Luck - husband and wife as it happens; but, and much more specifically, the nature of the show. Retro is of course a fashionable word for art that looks back to a previous time, but I hasten to add that the art they have in the show is not made out of a desire to cling to the past; that would be merely reactionary. To my mind Mitchel and Sheila’s art looks back to the painting of the 50’s and 60’s in order to build their paintings on a solid foundation. -Peter Hide, Curator |
Image top: Sheila Luck, Alpha (Detail), acrylic/canvas, 59” x 53”, 2010. |
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