OPENING 24TH AUGUST, 6PM
EXHIBTION DATES: 25TH AUGUST – 28 OCTOBER
DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY
IMAGE: Fernando Do Campo Anagram 1, 2011 acrylic and oil on linen
Fernando do Campo’s solo exhibition catching a mirage opens this Friday 24 August, 6pm in The Little Gallery. Fernando is a Launceston based artist and while still considered an emerging to early career artist has recently completed a residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris and is the Director of Sawtooth, the highly successful artist run initiative in Launceston. This solo exhibition will feature new works by the artist incorporating painting and photography as an installation.
Fernando’s research looks at the way we identify and create pictorial space, both as a viewer and a maker. The installation will include a combination of paintings that focus on repetition of mark-making, shape and form. The artist anticipates the installation will communicate more about the function of the image within a given space than its content. The Little Gallery was established in 2010 to provide a space for emerging to early career artists to not only present new bodies of work but to make use of the space to ‘test out’ ideas. Fernando’s exhibition makes use of The Little Gallery to question space relations both as architectural and pictorial.
The Little Gallery is the Devonport Regional Gallery’s emerging artist program, where local early to mid career artists get to exhibit a small body of work. This program is designed to assist local artists to expand their practice in a non- commercial space.
Astrid Joyce
Education and Public Programs Officer Devonport Regional Gallery
45-47 Stewart St, Devonport. TAS 7310
Astrid Joyce Education and Public Programs Officer
