Title

Anita Mertzlin: By arrangement painting.

Venues

Gallery 101. (20 August 2008 – 6 September 2008)

Date

(2008)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

By Arrangement expresses an intimate connection with time and its passing. A realist still life painter, Mertzlin’s loose and formidable collection of antiques and junk form the basis for her compositions. In the studio, she arranges them according to colour and surface, to create a satisfying play of reflection and form. This ‘theatre of familiar objects’ references unspoken, intimate and perhaps imagined stories and experience. Jars, broken tea cups, ink wells, nests, teapots, clocks, lingerie, hand-written letters, tea towels, pestle and mortar, flowers and fruit all wear the patina of time or use. These domestic things, transported from their usual context via the studio, now also speak of the world of the artist. [PR]