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Join us Tuesday, 1 February from 6 – 8 pm for the opening celebration of First. One. Thing. Then. Another. featuring paintings and a new video by Jess MacNeil.

Drawing on movement as the generative agent of their composition, the images and objects of First. One. Thing. Then. Another. trace and respond to nuanced shifts in time and space: the sliding of the gaze over the landscape, individuals transiting through public space, the trails left by the artists own body via the motion of the camera and the gestures of the brush, and, eventually, the changing relative positions of viewer and art object within the gallery.

Employing the properties of Perspex to facilitate direct access to the space ‘behind’ the image, whether painting or video projection, this space has become an active component. The images’ supporting structures are made explicit, underscoring the materiality of the image and playing with slips between literal space, material presence, and conceptual or illusory space opened up by each work.

A new large scale commission features alongside drawings and video work by Jess in Drawn from Life: Green Cardamom at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, in the Lake District, UK until 26 March 2011.

Our neighbour breenspace will be opening group show on 1 February too!

In other news…

International flights….

Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy and Hitesh Natalwala’s exhibitions are currently on show at Gallery Reis, Singapore until 5 February.

Jonathan Jones features in Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada, until 8 May.

Domestic flights…

Debra Dawes features in Twining: Weaving and Abstraction, curated by Fiona MacDonald and Karen Mills at 24hr Art, Darwin, from 11 February to 19 March.

Deborah Kelly features in Paradise… a hell of a place at Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne from 4 February to 9 March.

Joan Ross’ video work “When I grow up I want to be a forger’ features in Curious Colony: A twenty first century Wunderkammer is on show at S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney until 20 February.