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Beyond Frames
Harvey Galleries presents the upcoming solo exhibitions of three major Australian artists to end another successful year at their Seaforth based gallery; Joseph Rolella, Janine Daddo, and Johnny Romeo. With each brushstroke, these artists transport us into realms of pleasure and immersive wonder. Join us as we delve into the captivating world of each artist, their dynamic artistry, and inspiring enchantment.
Joseph ROLELLA
SEPTEMBER 23RD TO OCTOBER 10TH
Pursuing his lifelong passion for art, Joseph Rolella has consistently exhibited in Australia and overseas for the past thirty years. His complex, contemporary works are intricately abstract, with an emotionally calming gratitude that is juxtaposed with the frenzied commotion of texture and surface tension.
Pursuing his lifelong passion for art, Joseph Rolella has consistently exhibited in Australia and overseas for the past thirty years. His complex, contemporary works are intricately abstract, with an emotionally calming gratitude that is juxtaposed with the frenzied commotion of texture and surface tension.
“Light Amongst Shadows”, his next exhibition with Harvey Galleries, opening on September 23rd, sees his artistic evolution continue. His abandonment of figurative subjects has been replaced with a further, and greater, exploration of the abstract.
Born in Sydney in 1972, Rolella completed his Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours in 1994 before acquiring his Master’s from the University of Western Sydney in 1998. With his exhibitions have come accolades; he won the Australian Cricket Art Prize in 2011, the Oakhill Grammar School Art Prize in 2013, and was a semi-finalist for the Doug Moran Portrait Prize in the same year.
Janine DADDO
OCTOBER 21ST TO NOVEMBER 7TH
THEY FOLLOW THE STARS BY JANINE DADDO
Janine Daddo considers herself, with gratitude, to be a lucky person; fulfilling her dreams of being a painter has brought the artist happiness that she shares with all around her. Both as a person, and in her art, she has a gift of being able to communicate what she is thinking and feeling effortlessly and effectively, with a selfless exuberance. Her playful paintings are infused with these traits, hidden within the richness of her colour palette and layered surfaces.
“Painting for me is like creating a conversation, a memory, a yearning,” says Janine Daddo.
Born in 1959, Daddo studied Design and Graphic Art at RMIT, leaving the famous Melbourne University with Honours, and was named Dux in 1981. She then began a career in advertising agencies, until in 1994 she shifted her focus to her art and motherhood. Since then, her art has drawn crowds in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as overseas in the United States, and now sits in collections around the world. Beginning on October 21st, her upcoming exhibition explores the beauty of transition and growth within life. As our own weather shifts from Spring to Summer, the subjects in her works seem to be developing too.
Johnny Romeo
DECEMBER 8TH TO 19TH
One of the biggest names in pop art today, Johnny Romeo’s works are highly sought after throughout the world, sitting in prominent private and public collections. His collaboration clientele includes companies such as Lexus, snowboarding brand Gilson Boards, and the punk band Blink 182. His paintings, which will next be exhibited with Harvey Galleries from December 8th, serve as poignant critiques of twenty first century advertising and materialism, and the cultural trend towards superficiality and extravagant excess. They explore the intricacies of our own identities and how these factors shape who we are, and who we deify.
Romeo’s works have earned him resounding international acclaim, and the title of being a bombastic, yet profound, “neo-expressionist”, with his complex visual use of words, symbols, and images. As pop culture continues to saturate us with a never-ending myriad of images and iconography, Romeo shifts our attention to the pitfalls of unconscious consumerism, celebrity fixation and brand idolisation. By carefully balancing pop art tendencies with street art aesthetics, the creative labours of this Australian born artist are important pillars of contemporary socio-cultural commentary. •
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