Room With a View
by Murray Crane
If you happen to be in Melbourne next week, the Spring 1883 Art Fair (13 - 16 August) at the Hotel Windsor is worth a look. The Hotel suites are once again transformed into exhibition spaces, creating an intimate and domestic way to encounter contemporary art - disarming, elegant, and occasionally surreal.
Among this year’s exhibitors are two familiar names from Auckland. Michael Lett has long been one of the country’s most distinctive dealers; equal parts provocateur and perfectionist, his gallery has an uncanny ability to make the difficult seem elegant, and the elegant feel quietly subversive.
His presence at Spring is always well judged, and this year is no exception, with new works by Gavin Hipkins, Oliver Perkins, Sriwhana Spong, Peter Stichbury, Imogen Taylor, and others. Also showing is Föenander Galleries, presenting new work by Lottie Consalvo. Her brooding, emotionally charged paintings are a personal favourite.
They operate at the edges of memory, longing, and inner life – often large in scale and dark in palette, they offer moments of stillness and psychological intensity.
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