Lisa Byrne Melbourne 2007 One of the fundamentally enticing qualities of abstraction is its claim to otherness and its hold on nothing. Lara Merrett’s current body of work on show in Soft Rock affirms this idea. On the one hand […]
Lisa Byrne Melbourne 2007 One of the fundamentally enticing qualities of abstraction is its claim to otherness and its hold on nothing. Lara Merrett’s current body of work on show in Soft Rock affirms this idea. On the one hand […]
Louise Martin-Chew 2010 “Look at any inspired painting,” Philip Guston once told a reporter for Time magazine. “It’s like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.” There is ambiguity and shades of a contemporary Gothic sensibility […]
Amita Kirpalani 2014 When Lara Merrett describes “catching a painting”, she is in part describing the tarpaulin which flanks the four metre paintings of the main Karen Woodbury Gallery space – this material which catches the run-offs, drips and over-painting […]
Anna Johnson 2015 Less than a century ago major paintings were autographed in one corner and boxed within a gilded frame. Through time the painting would exchange hands and change frames, out of the artists’ reach and lost to commerce. […]