urban dingo gallery [current show] -Urban Dingo Gallery offers a range of quality Aboriginal traditional and contemporary paintings, limited edition prints and ethnic pottery, jewellery and artefacts by the people of Northern and Western Australia as well as urban indigenous art and some contemporary non indigenous art, that fits within the philosophy of the gallery.-

current show

Urban Dingo Gallery Proudly Presents

Displaced Mats - A solo exhibition of works by

STEPHEN EASTAUGH

Stephen Eastaugh A piece from the Stephen Eastaugh Exhibit

Official opening by Dr. Stefano Carboni
Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia

Friday May 8, @ 6pm
Refreshments will be provided.

Exhibition continues to 6th June.

The title of the exhibition Displaced Mats has a special resonance for the artist.

Stephen Eastaugh says living in Antarctica is strangely comfortable as it has never been anyone's home. "Some days I look out my window into a total void constructed of a whiteout and a wild blizzard. The works in Displaced Mats are built from fractured and fuzzy landscapes images of places seen in passing as I move from place to place."

Currently at Mawson Station in Antarctica, where he is artist in residence for nine months. Just as he constantly travels, so does his art. This exhibition arrived from Bangkok - Melbourne to Fremantle from there to Argentina.

The exhibition consists of work the size of the humble placemat. "Placemats designate where one sits at the table. They locate you or position you within the geography of the dinner table. Conceptually the name 'placemat' is of interest to me as the idea of place can be expanded to mean location, home, land or geography. I need a placemat to help position me or to remind me where on earth I am."

Born in Melbourne in 1960, Stephen Eastaugh completed a BA in Fine Arts at Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts before being awarded a Certificate of Achievement at the University of Oslo. He also completed a Diploma of Education at the University of Tasmania.

Stephen has held more than thirty-three solo exhibitions since 1987 with venues in Melbourne, Sydney, Broome, Amsterdam, Sofia, Paris, Hong Kong, Manila, Phnom Penh, Bangkok and Antarctica.

He has more than eighty group exhibitions in his career so far including the Australian National Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, and other regional and commercial galleries in Australia and overseas, many of which hold collections of his work.

An exhibition not to be missed, this is must see for art connoisseurs and serious collectors alike.

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