By Deanne Jeffers
TWO extraordinary new exhibitions opened at Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) over the weekend. ELEVATION by Ash Keating is a new solo exhibition that interprets the landscape of Yorta Yorta Country/the Goulburn Valley through Keating’s signature abstraction style.
Since 2015, Keating has developed a distinct and specialised methodology for creating paintings with atmospheric compositions. Working with a technique he has named Gravity System Response (GSR), Keating applies paint to surfaces through an airless sprayer, augmenting areas by erasing or breaking down paint by applying water.
ELEVATION presents a new series of large-scale paintings, which form an interconnected series of panoramas as you walk through the gallery space.
Keating’s affinity for the region’s landscape was formed at an early age; the artist recalls accompanying his grandmother – a pilot – in light-aircraft flights over Victoria’s high country.
Also now open to the public is SAM’s new collection exhibition Dance Me to The End of Love, reflecting on the cycles of life through objects in the SAM collection, including the hyperrealist Mother and Child by Sam Jinks.
Dance Me to the End of Love is showing until February 24, and ELEVATION is on show at SAM until June 2023. Both exhibitions are free to visit.
Find more information at sheppartonartmuseum.com.au
