when: 20 July 2024 - 04 August 2024 | venue: Aarwun Gallery | cost: See event for details | address: O'Hanlon Place Nicholls 2913 | website: https://aarwungallery.com.au
published: 22 Jul 2024, 5 min read
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Portraying the whimsical side of woe is a well established form of self-analysis and expression for many artists, past and present. For example, Ensor, Schiele, Goya, etc. A title like ‘It only hurts when I laugh!' would make a good sub-title for many of the paintings in this latest collection by John A Rowe. Varying degrees of emotional memories and imagined comical scenarios are expressed imaginatively through Rowe's usual intertwined British sense of humour, thrown in with a more than generous helping of nervous anxiety. Abstract mark-making combined with figurative story-telling… well and truly shaken, but never, ever stirred!
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Portraying the whimsical side of woe is a well established form of self-analysis and expression for many artists, past and present. For example, Ensor, Schiele, Goya, etc. A title like ‘It only hurts when I laugh!' would make a good sub-title for many of the paintings in this latest collection by John A Rowe. Varying degrees of emotional memories and imagined comical scenarios are expressed imaginatively through Rowe's usual intertwined British sense of humour, thrown in with a more than generous helping of nervous anxiety. Abstract mark-making combined with figurative story-telling… well and truly shaken, but never, ever stirred!
Go see John A Rowe - Whimsy & Woe: A Brush With Contrasts 2024.

John A Rowe - Whimsy & Woe: A Brush With Contrasts 2024 is on 20 July 2024 - 04 August 2024. The opening hours are: See event website for details. Conveniently located in Nicholls. Call 0499 107 887 for details. Visit their website at https://aarwungallery.com.au.
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