The Picks | July 2024
LOOK AT JULY
Alright, let us begin:
This month means Make and Do has existed for a year. I will deliver an estimate of how many words this may have consisted of in due course, but for the moment, here are some art things we believe should divert your attention – and you know, this is about the art first and foremost.
First, make utterly sure you get to Matt Warren’s show. Matt is a unique artist in the broader arts ecology because he works with light and sound, and his art is far more about sharing an experience, often an intensely personal one, rather than making an object. His work comes and goes, and is often most strongly a memory, which is reasonable, because memory and memorial are important to his art. Matt’s work is currently at Good Grief, which is open Thursday and Sunday afternoons, so get along to the corner of Argyle and Melville and slip inside this house.
Matt Warren: Spheres, scapes and the grain of formative hauntings at Good Grief until 28th July
Dane Chisholm’s show Things That Grow And Flow at Henry Jones Art Hotel looks cool; Dane has a pretty wonderful take on art that’s quite joyfully expressive, with lots of drawings, wild colour use and a nice personal logic. Go have a look at that.
Michaye Boulter’s Atmosphere’s (that I did a bit of writing for!) is on right now at Bett, and I kind of love it and spent heaps of time thinking about this work. Michaye’s quite the artist and has really solid ideas about where her work is, and I really enjoyed engaging with it. It’s beautiful and enigmatic and isn’t quite what you might expect.
Michaye Boulter Atmospheres is at Bett Gallery until 27 July
Junko Go is at Handmark! I LOVE JUNKO! She makes floating hazy worlds that seem to wander over the edges of the canvas. Here she’s playing around with the colour white and investigating how she can use it and what it means, and manages to make a bit of an anti-war comment along the way. There’s something about Junko that I really enjoy – she has an energy that inhabits and enlivens all her work.
Junko Go – My Beautiful Ugly White is at Handmark until 22nd
Could You Ever Know Every Fold In The Mountain is Zoe Grey’s new show at Despard and it really caught me – because ZG has taken what she was doing and sort of pulled it apart, then put it back together again. I’m always interested to see artists who interrogate themselves and kind of have an investigation in their work – where you know it’s them, but they keep asking themselves what it is they are really doing. With this show, Zoe demonstrates she could be one of them, and that’s damn interesting.
Zoe Grey - Could You Ever Know Every Fold In The Mountain – Despard Gallery until the 20th
