Lisa Tomasetti
Photography
Friday 17 May - Saturday 8 June 2024
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Lisa Tomasetti is a Sydney-based photographer. She has exhibited extensively throughout Australia as well as holding solo shows in London, Barcelona and Shanghai. Her work ...
View Lisa's profileThe Manifest: Clouding Our Binary Ideas of Gender
The word ‘manifest’ describes what a thing (a boat, a person, a vessel) may hold – its contents. Taking her cue from this definition, in her latest body of work, Lisa Tomasetti reflects on gender identity and the role contemporary photographic portraiture plays in the representation of the ‘female’ image. Does it capture or construct identity?
Through the constancy and indifference of clouds, Tomasetti responds to historic, costumed representations of ‘authentic’ gender. In the past, the ephemeral nature of clouds defied scientific classification. Artists saw them as anti-structure, anti-order and representative of the complexity of human mood or aspiration. Clouds were the transportation of gods and angels, signifying the intermediate world between the hidden and the visible.
The models’ historical costumes define them as hetero-normative, yet closer inspection reveals the costs of conformity and convention. The clothing and gender conventions they symbolise are restricting and restrictive. Through the lens of Tomasetti’s conceptual photographic vision, the models are depicted in the process of liberation from these constraints – ascendant, carried aloft by the clouds. Tomasetti’s subjects are unravelling, in an un-grounded escape from the restrictions of their gender-based impositions of ‘authentic’ gender. In some images, the model’s anguished face and painted hands mock the grace of her garments. Her feet have all but disappeared – robbed of locomotion. In other portraits, subjects are further buoyed aloft by balloons, which seem to drag them skyward. There is a sense that without these precarious vehicles of flight, they might fall to earth, or disappear altogether.
A new representation and possibility for an entirely individual identity is asserted in this series, one that seems to be as natural and free-formed as the clouds themselves. Each model celebrates the construction of their re-versioned female self in its emergent form, defying the constriction of their physical representations and challenging the historic classifications of their gender identity. Utopia and dystopia symbolically collide in transformative ecstasy. Manifest is a manifesto for new ways of capturing gender in photographic form.

Miss Read
Pigment print on archival paper
120 x 100 cm
Ed. 2/5
$3,950
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I’m Getting a V4G1N4 in February
Pigment print on archival paper
100 x 120 cm
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Awe
Pigment print on archival paper
120 x 100 cm
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The Manifest
Pigment print on archival paper
120 x 100 cm
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Ascendant
Pigment print on archival paper
120 x 100 cm
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Luculent
Pigment print on archival paper
120 x 100 cm
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Self
Pigment print on archival paper
120 x 100 cm
Ed. 2/5
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A Time in Space
Pigment print on archival paper
120 x 100 cm
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Dana Kinter
Mixed media painting
Friday 17 May - Saturday 8 June 2024
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Dana Kinter is an artist living and making on Kaurna land, South Australia. Drawing from the natural environment surrounding her home / studio nestled alongside ...
View Dana's profileThe Stars Already Know Your Name
New paintings dreamt while following my heart in India, and my first woodblock kantha stitched quilts, handmade with love in Jaipur.
A gathering of experiences and motifs, of love and colour found while letting go and finding my feet across the ocean. Dana Kinter, artist.
‘I filled the blood stained pages with the story of my love
and went on writing even when they cut off my hands.’
Mirza Ghalib

The Stars Already Know Your Name - The Gift
Mixed media on canvas
100 x 77 x 3 cm
$9,000
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North - You’re My North, My South, My East, My West - Pondicherry Crow and Australian Wattle
Pencil and acrylic on art board
40 x 40 x 2 cm
$900
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South - You’re My North, My South, My East, My West - Pondicherry Crow and Australian Wattle
Pencil and acrylic on art board
40 x 40 x 2 cm
$900
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East - You’re My North, My South, My East, My West - Pondicherry Crow and Australian Wattle
Pencil and acrylic on art board
40 x 40 x 2 cm
$900
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West - You’re My North, My South, My East, My West - Pondicherry Crow and Australian Wattle
Pencil and acrylic on art board
40 x 40 x 2 cm
$900
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Til the Sun and the Moon and the Stars – Weebill and Protea
Pencil and acrylic on art board
100 x 100 x 4 cm
$7,000
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The Stars Are Your Eyes - Tiger and Sacred Fig Leaf
Pencil and acrylic on art board
60 x 40 x 4 cm
$1,800
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The Stars Hang by Threads - Peacock and Sacred Fig Leaf
Pencil and acrylic on art board
60 x 40 x 4 cm
$1,800
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Whispers Carry My Heart - Grevillea and New Holland Honeyeater
Pencil and acrylic on art board
100 x 100 x 4 cm
$7,000
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You Have Been Written for Me - Rainbow Lorikeet and Protea
Pencil and acrylic on art board
100 x 100 x 4 cm
$7,000
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Faith - White Naped Honeyeaters and Eucalyptus
Pencil and acrylic on art board
100 x 100 x 4 cm
$7,000
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Path of the Wind - Banksia and Silvereye
Pencil and acrylic on art board
100 x 100 x 4 cm
$7,000
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Love Threads - Rajasthan Hearts and Stars Quilt
Bagru dyed woodblock kantha cotton quilt (limited edition)
280 x 210 cm
$490
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Love Threads - Rajasthan Hearts and Stars
Pencil and acrylic on art board
100 x 100 x 4 cm
$7,000
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Heart Strings - Australian Wattle
Pencil and acrylic on art board
100 x 100 x 4 cm
$7,000
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Heart Strings - Australian Wattle Quilt
Indigo dyed woodblock kantha cotton quilt (limited edition)
280 x 210 cm
$490
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Georgina Mills
Classical figurative sculpture
Friday 17 May - Saturday 8 June 2024
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Georgina Mills is a classically trained South Australian figurative sculptor who primarily works from life, generally the nude, interpreting her concepts in clay. This translation ...
View Georgina's profileIvana
Ivana was Georgina’s first life-size sculpture as part of her 2nd year studies at the Florence Academy of Art, Italy. This sculpture reflects her immersion in the classical aesthetic throughout Italy, particularly Florence. Her cropping of the mouth was a deliberate inclusion in the project to mirror ancient sculptures fragmented by time. Ivana marks a pivotal point in the development of her technical skills. It also serves as a catalyst where Georgina started to realise the possibilities of this skill development and the many directions she could explore in the translation of her concepts.

Ivana Ed. 2
Acrylic resin on ironbark base
107 x 40 x 30 cm (includes base)
$5,000
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Ivana Ed. 3
Acrylic resin on granite base
102 x 40 x 30 cm (includes base)
$5,000
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Ivana Ed. 4
Acrylic resin on ironbark base
107 x 40 x 30 cm (includes base)
$5,000
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Measure of Strength
Acrylic resin on ironbark base
96 x 47 x 43 cm (includes base)
$5,000
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