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Exhibitions

Tuesday 10 December
2024

Memo Akten

Memo Akten: Distributed Consciousness

ACMI
Wednesday 1 May – Tuesday 31 December

Gio Ponti, Gae Aulenti, Joe Colombo, Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini

Molto Bello: Icons of Modern Italian Design

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 26 October – Sunday 23 March

Beth Gibbeson

Eliminate Illuminate Elucidate

Boom Gallery
Thursday 21 November – Saturday 21 December

Isobel Rayson

For As Long As It Lasts

Boom Gallery
Thursday 21 November – Saturday 21 December

Brian Robinson

Current / Brian Robinson

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 23 February

Giulia Violanti

KI'N

Boom Gallery
Thursday 21 November – Saturday 21 December

Bruce Rowe

Alter

The Front Room
Thursday 5 December – Saturday 14 December

Natalie Steer

Spirit Trees

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

Edwina Edwards

North-East

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

Ronald Chu

The Form of Nature

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

Group Show

Centrepiece

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

David Griffith

Painting and Drawing

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

Nunzio Miano

A Return to Italy

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

Fleur Optekamp

Nature's Abstraction

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

Holly Greenwood

After The Game

James Makin Gallery
Wednesday 27 November – Saturday 14 December

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Simone Haag

Fables & Folklore

Craft
Thursday 14 November – Saturday 25 January

Laura de Carteret

I Forgot My Keys, So I Climbed Through The Window

Craft
Tuesday 10 December – Saturday 18 January

Albert Tucker

Albert Tucker's Grotesques

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 October – Sunday 9 March

Richard Lewer

Making Contact

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 October – Sunday 30 March

Danielle Brustman

I could have danced all night by Danielle Brustman

Jewish Museum of Australia
Tuesday 13 August – Sunday 9 March

Group Show

A Secret Chord: Music, Rhythm & Movement in the Jewish Museum of Australia Collection

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 31 October – Sunday 16 March

Sean Hogan

Nevermore

Five Walls
Friday 15 November – Saturday 14 December

Akil Ahamat

Extinguishing Hope

West Space
Sunday 17 November – Monday 20 January

Kat Macleod

Dryads

Lamington Drive
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 25 January

Group Show

Gertrude Studios 2024 Curated by Amelia Winata and Brigid Moriarty

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 2 November – Sunday 15 December

Group Show

The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 8 November – Saturday 14 December

Kathryn McCool

P.North

Centre For Contemporary Photography
Friday 25 October – Saturday 14 December

Group Show

The Charge That Binds

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 16 March

Kait James

Blak Flags

Neon Parc
Friday 15 November – Saturday 14 December

Tony Clark

Unsculpted

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 1 November – Sunday 1 June

Group Show

The Future & Other Fictions

ACMI
Thursday 28 November – Sunday 27 April

Group Show

Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition

ACMI
Tuesday 17 September – Sunday 16 February

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Sunday 2 February

Jordan Prosser & Nathan Harrison

INT. SPACESHIP – NIGHT

ACMI
Thursday 28 November – Sunday 27 April

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Nicholas Quantock-Holmes

TRESSPASS

No Vacancy
Tuesday 10 December – Saturday 21 December

Darcy Vescio

That Sack of Air

Honey Bones Gallery
Friday 6 December – Sunday 15 December

ArtLife Studio

Resonance

Footscray Community Arts Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 14 December

Emily Dober

Rhythm in Ruby Shoes

Footscray Community Arts Centre
Tuesday 1 October – Saturday 25 January

Group Show

Last Christmas (I Gave You My Heart)

Sarah Scout Presents
Thursday 21 November – Saturday 21 December

Raghav Kumar & Addin Sugarda

Crossing

Seventh Gallery
Thursday 28 November – Saturday 21 December

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Reaching Out

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 15 June

Robert Rauschenberg & Jasper Johns

Rauschenberg & Johns—Significant Others

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 16 November – Sunday 9 February

Group Show

The Sweet Spot—Between Art & Design

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 16 November – Sunday 9 February

Group Show

Social Studies

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 9 February

Noel Counihan

A People’s Press—Noel Counihan

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 2 November – Monday 10 March

Group Show

Linden Postcard Show 2024-25

Linden New Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 2 February

Sean Mcdowell

And the World Turns

Linden New Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 12 January

Scotty So

Maybe She Was There

MARS Gallery
Friday 6 December – Friday 20 December

Nick Mullaly

Courtly Love

MARS Gallery
Friday 6 December – Friday 20 December

Edie Duffy

A Severed Head

CAVES Gallery
Friday 29 November – Saturday 21 December

Brent Harris

Drawings and New Paintings

Tolarno Galleries
Saturday 16 November – Saturday 14 December

Group Show

SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed

Science Gallery
Saturday 3 August – Saturday 31 May

Elliat Rich

Mythica Ignota

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Wednesday 27 November – Wednesday 18 December

Jason Phu

the deepest love in the deepest well of despair

Station Gallery
Saturday 16 November – Saturday 21 December

Group Show

Intimate Imaginaries

Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Saturday 30 November – Monday 10 March

Ara Dolatian

At The First Flood of Daylight

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Cyrus Tang

Eclipsed Presence

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Natalie Thomas

Selling Sunset

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Group Show

Something like a dream

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Group Show

Truth Telling Space

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 1 July – Saturday 21 December

Esther Erlich

Because

Fox Galleries
Thursday 28 November – Friday 20 December

Robby Wirramanda & Jackie Wirramanda

WALPA WARU [The Dance of Fire and Wind]

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 4 December – Sunday 22 December

Mitch Pinney

Shortcuts

Hillvale Gallery
Friday 6 December – Friday 31 January

Group Show

Tapestry Treasures

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 31 October – Saturday 25 January

Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria

Strange Meadows

Oigall Projects
Thursday 28 November – Wednesday 25 December

Nick Mullaly

Courtly Love

MARS Gallery
Friday 6 December – Friday 20 December

‘Courtly Love’ is a symbolic suite of new paintings by Naarm/Melbourne based artist Nick Mullaly. The works exude a dramatised romanticism by referencing classical iconography of religion and mythology, cinema and gay erotica, acting as totems of love, lust and sorrow.

These polarities of emotional states have the ability to transcend logic and realism, pointing to the hilarity of the psyche when enamoured by romantic and sexual life.

The term ‘courtly love’ refers to a romantic union between two unmarried people in medieval times. Though not typically consummated, these relationships were dependent on acts of flirtation and chivalry, a concept still relevant in contemporary life. Mullaly renders compositions that exaggerate interior worlds of romance. He draws from Western painting’s so-called canon to expose the unchanging nature of these ideas.

Desire is also felt within the endurance of studio time and the perseverance of picture making. A painter's pursuit emanates similar feelings of anguish and intensity, adding visual weight to the labour of love. Informed by methods of post-impressionist and expressionist painting and the granular nature of film, Mullaly emphasises these qualities of scattered light, energetic gestures and warm matte layers on the canvas, building theatrical scenes that move from sharpened to hazy.

‘These processes unite the fabric of a picture, carrying the potential to foster hidden worlds between layers and brush strokes in a way that feels as allegorical as the subject matter depicted in the compositions.’

This is seen in ‘Pietà’, a painting by Mullaly inspired by the Michelangelo sculpture in which the Madonna and Christ are replaced with figures who resemble two men entwined on a hazy beach landscape at sunset. The narrative changes from grief to that of a dying lover; the end of a relationship, sentimentally rendered with staccato-like brush marks that sharpen and disintegrate. Mullaly uses a similar painterly approach but contrasting tone in ‘The Red Wine Drinkers’, a bizarre and comical scene of two figures gazing at the viewer, erect and cupping their drinks. The line between hedonism and earnestness is further expressed in the paintings ‘Date Paying Attention’ and ‘Angel’s Share’, where Mullaly seeks to embody different stages of boozy intimacy that elicit anticipation, fantastical delusion and hope.

Each painting contemplates the human heart when spellbound by desire, or caught in the rapture of courtly love.

Location

MARS Gallery
7 James St, Windsor VIC, Australia

Date

Friday 6 December – Friday 20 December

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Website

https://marsgallery.com.au/exhibitions/73-courtly-love-nick-mullaly/

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Exhibitions

Tuesday 10 December
2024

Memo Akten

Memo Akten: Distributed Consciousness

ACMI
Wednesday 1 May – Tuesday 31 December

Gio Ponti, Gae Aulenti, Joe Colombo, Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini

Molto Bello: Icons of Modern Italian Design

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 26 October – Sunday 23 March

Beth Gibbeson

Eliminate Illuminate Elucidate

Boom Gallery
Thursday 21 November – Saturday 21 December

Isobel Rayson

For As Long As It Lasts

Boom Gallery
Thursday 21 November – Saturday 21 December

Brian Robinson

Current / Brian Robinson

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 23 February

Giulia Violanti

KI'N

Boom Gallery
Thursday 21 November – Saturday 21 December

Bruce Rowe

Alter

The Front Room
Thursday 5 December – Saturday 14 December

Natalie Steer

Spirit Trees

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

Edwina Edwards

North-East

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

Ronald Chu

The Form of Nature

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

Group Show

Centrepiece

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

David Griffith

Painting and Drawing

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

Nunzio Miano

A Return to Italy

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

Fleur Optekamp

Nature's Abstraction

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Friday 20 December

Holly Greenwood

After The Game

James Makin Gallery
Wednesday 27 November – Saturday 14 December

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Simone Haag

Fables & Folklore

Craft
Thursday 14 November – Saturday 25 January

Laura de Carteret

I Forgot My Keys, So I Climbed Through The Window

Craft
Tuesday 10 December – Saturday 18 January

Albert Tucker

Albert Tucker's Grotesques

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 October – Sunday 9 March

Richard Lewer

Making Contact

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 October – Sunday 30 March

Danielle Brustman

I could have danced all night by Danielle Brustman

Jewish Museum of Australia
Tuesday 13 August – Sunday 9 March

Group Show

A Secret Chord: Music, Rhythm & Movement in the Jewish Museum of Australia Collection

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 31 October – Sunday 16 March

Sean Hogan

Nevermore

Five Walls
Friday 15 November – Saturday 14 December

Akil Ahamat

Extinguishing Hope

West Space
Sunday 17 November – Monday 20 January

Kat Macleod

Dryads

Lamington Drive
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 25 January

Group Show

Gertrude Studios 2024 Curated by Amelia Winata and Brigid Moriarty

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 2 November – Sunday 15 December

Group Show

The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 8 November – Saturday 14 December

Kathryn McCool

P.North

Centre For Contemporary Photography
Friday 25 October – Saturday 14 December

Group Show

The Charge That Binds

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 16 March

Kait James

Blak Flags

Neon Parc
Friday 15 November – Saturday 14 December

Tony Clark

Unsculpted

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 1 November – Sunday 1 June

Group Show

The Future & Other Fictions

ACMI
Thursday 28 November – Sunday 27 April

Group Show

Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition

ACMI
Tuesday 17 September – Sunday 16 February

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Sunday 2 February

Jordan Prosser & Nathan Harrison

INT. SPACESHIP – NIGHT

ACMI
Thursday 28 November – Sunday 27 April

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Nicholas Quantock-Holmes

TRESSPASS

No Vacancy
Tuesday 10 December – Saturday 21 December

Darcy Vescio

That Sack of Air

Honey Bones Gallery
Friday 6 December – Sunday 15 December

ArtLife Studio

Resonance

Footscray Community Arts Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 14 December

Emily Dober

Rhythm in Ruby Shoes

Footscray Community Arts Centre
Tuesday 1 October – Saturday 25 January

Group Show

Last Christmas (I Gave You My Heart)

Sarah Scout Presents
Thursday 21 November – Saturday 21 December

Raghav Kumar & Addin Sugarda

Crossing

Seventh Gallery
Thursday 28 November – Saturday 21 December

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Reaching Out

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 15 June

Robert Rauschenberg & Jasper Johns

Rauschenberg & Johns—Significant Others

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 16 November – Sunday 9 February

Group Show

The Sweet Spot—Between Art & Design

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 16 November – Sunday 9 February

Group Show

Social Studies

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 9 February

Noel Counihan

A People’s Press—Noel Counihan

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 2 November – Monday 10 March

Group Show

Linden Postcard Show 2024-25

Linden New Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 2 February

Sean Mcdowell

And the World Turns

Linden New Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 12 January

Scotty So

Maybe She Was There

MARS Gallery
Friday 6 December – Friday 20 December

Nick Mullaly

Courtly Love

MARS Gallery
Friday 6 December – Friday 20 December

Edie Duffy

A Severed Head

CAVES Gallery
Friday 29 November – Saturday 21 December

Brent Harris

Drawings and New Paintings

Tolarno Galleries
Saturday 16 November – Saturday 14 December

Group Show

SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed

Science Gallery
Saturday 3 August – Saturday 31 May

Elliat Rich

Mythica Ignota

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Wednesday 27 November – Wednesday 18 December

Jason Phu

the deepest love in the deepest well of despair

Station Gallery
Saturday 16 November – Saturday 21 December

Group Show

Intimate Imaginaries

Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Saturday 30 November – Monday 10 March

Ara Dolatian

At The First Flood of Daylight

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Cyrus Tang

Eclipsed Presence

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Natalie Thomas

Selling Sunset

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Group Show

Something like a dream

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Group Show

Truth Telling Space

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 1 July – Saturday 21 December

Esther Erlich

Because

Fox Galleries
Thursday 28 November – Friday 20 December

Robby Wirramanda & Jackie Wirramanda

WALPA WARU [The Dance of Fire and Wind]

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 4 December – Sunday 22 December

Mitch Pinney

Shortcuts

Hillvale Gallery
Friday 6 December – Friday 31 January

Group Show

Tapestry Treasures

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 31 October – Saturday 25 January

Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria

Strange Meadows

Oigall Projects
Thursday 28 November – Wednesday 25 December

Nick Mullaly

Courtly Love

MARS Gallery
Friday 6 December – Friday 20 December

‘Courtly Love’ is a symbolic suite of new paintings by Naarm/Melbourne based artist Nick Mullaly. The works exude a dramatised romanticism by referencing classical iconography of religion and mythology, cinema and gay erotica, acting as totems of love, lust and sorrow.

These polarities of emotional states have the ability to transcend logic and realism, pointing to the hilarity of the psyche when enamoured by romantic and sexual life.

The term ‘courtly love’ refers to a romantic union between two unmarried people in medieval times. Though not typically consummated, these relationships were dependent on acts of flirtation and chivalry, a concept still relevant in contemporary life. Mullaly renders compositions that exaggerate interior worlds of romance. He draws from Western painting’s so-called canon to expose the unchanging nature of these ideas.

Desire is also felt within the endurance of studio time and the perseverance of picture making. A painter's pursuit emanates similar feelings of anguish and intensity, adding visual weight to the labour of love. Informed by methods of post-impressionist and expressionist painting and the granular nature of film, Mullaly emphasises these qualities of scattered light, energetic gestures and warm matte layers on the canvas, building theatrical scenes that move from sharpened to hazy.

‘These processes unite the fabric of a picture, carrying the potential to foster hidden worlds between layers and brush strokes in a way that feels as allegorical as the subject matter depicted in the compositions.’

This is seen in ‘Pietà’, a painting by Mullaly inspired by the Michelangelo sculpture in which the Madonna and Christ are replaced with figures who resemble two men entwined on a hazy beach landscape at sunset. The narrative changes from grief to that of a dying lover; the end of a relationship, sentimentally rendered with staccato-like brush marks that sharpen and disintegrate. Mullaly uses a similar painterly approach but contrasting tone in ‘The Red Wine Drinkers’, a bizarre and comical scene of two figures gazing at the viewer, erect and cupping their drinks. The line between hedonism and earnestness is further expressed in the paintings ‘Date Paying Attention’ and ‘Angel’s Share’, where Mullaly seeks to embody different stages of boozy intimacy that elicit anticipation, fantastical delusion and hope.

Each painting contemplates the human heart when spellbound by desire, or caught in the rapture of courtly love.

Location

MARS Gallery
7 James St, Windsor VIC, Australia

Date

Friday 6 December – Friday 20 December

Save to Calendar

Website

https://marsgallery.com.au/exhibitions/73-courtly-love-nick-mullaly/

All exhibition content on this website has been sourced from the exhibiting gallery’s website or provided by other art enthusiasts. We do not own or seek to own any of this material. If you are concerned about any misuse of your content, please let us know here.

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