Opening launch: Wednesday 21 August 6–8PM

Disarray (Variations) is a series of paintings that have emerged from the long standing collaborative practice of Lidia Byrne and Stacey Collee.

While oil painting has historically been a solitary practice, the duo are interested in the canvas as a site of negotiation and competing marks. Ultimately the works are unified through their investigation into modernist aesthetics, gestural forms and colour.

View Room sheet

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Lidia Byrne is a Melbourne based artist whose practice is informed by a commitment to painting. Through her work she explores questions around representation and abstraction. Byrne graduated from VCA in 2022.

Stacey Collee is a performer and painter whose work reaches toward the raw emotive force of love and desire. Since graduating from VCA in 2022, Collee has exhibited at various galleries such as KINGS ARI, West Space, George Paton Gallery, Seventh Gallery, BLINDSIDE ARI and the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery.

Image credit: Lidia Byrne and Stacey Collee, Devotion, 2024, oil on canvas, 77 cm x 101 cm

Documentatiob: Kim Sachs