THE countdown is on for two new, exciting and evocative exhibition openings at SAM on Saturday, March 18.
With a career that has chartered an impressive trajectory, contemporary visual artist, Ash Keating will proudly present ELEVATION, a new solo exhibition that interprets the landscape of Yorta Yorta Country / the Goulburn Valley through his signature, abstract style.
Through a series of large-scale paintings which combine to create breath-taking panoramas, Keating responds to the landscape with which he has forged an indelible affinity with over time.
As a child, Keating recalls memories of accompanying his grandmother as a pilot in a light-aircraft, flying over Victoria’s high country and it is this, and other visits to elevated places that have informed his atmospheric compositions.
Reflecting on the grand cycles of life, the enthralling new SAM collection exhibition, Dance Me to the End of Love will also open on Saturday, March 18.
Traversing the stages of human existence from birth to death and beyond, the combined artworks featured in the exhibition span the course of 120 years in diverse mediums, including ceramics, sculpture, painting, printmaking, assemblage and installation.
Comprising of works from 39 artists, Dance Me to the End of Love shares stories of lives lived and delves into connective experiences of creation, parenthood, spiritualism, life seasons, death and the afterlife.
Beloved items from the collection will return for the exhibition, including patron favourites, Woman and Child by Sam Jink’s and Penny Byrne’s darkly humorous 2009 ceramic work, The Four Horsemen of the 21st Century Apocalypse.
With the official opening event of Ash Keating: ELEVATION beginning at 2pm on SUNDAY March 19, community members who would like to attend, are invited and can make a booking at www.trybooking.com/CGJXD.
Ash Keating: ELEVATION will exhibit until June 18, 2023, while Dance Me to the End of Love will show until February 2024.
