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Jemima Wyman, Untitled (detail) 2002, Synthetic polymer paint and ink on canvas.
Please join us on Thursday 6 March to view the current exhibition, which will include light refreshments and a private viewing of Artbank’s collection.
When: Thursday 6 March, 2025
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Where: Artbank Melbourne, 18-24 Down Street Collingwood
RSVP via TBC or rsvps@artbank.gov.au
Artbank Melbourne is open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 4pm or by appointment.
Artbank Open encourages everyone to get curious, get involved and get up close to incredible artworks by some of the most exciting Australian contemporary artists. Challenge, excite, inspire and surprise yourself as you create your own journey through this uniquely Australian art collection.
Featured artists: Maggie Brink, Theresa Byrnes, Joanna Croke, Stasiu Dorczak, Jeremy Eaton, Merran Esson, Emily Floyd, Claudia Greathead, Colin Lanceley, Jeffrey Makin, Aaron Aryadharma Matheson, Vanila Netto, Tomislav Nikolic, Serena Pinday, Julia Robinson, Todd Robinson, Sally Ross, Ayako Saito, Ted Snell, Peter Tyndall, Daniel Von Sturmer, Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, Peter Walsh, Peter Waples-Crowe, Sera Waters, Rudi Williams, Jemima Wyman, Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu
Love, Yellow presents a selection from the Artbank Collection which explores the colour yellow across its full tonal range. How does colour affect us viscerally and culturally? The exhibition is an experiment in our perception of colour. As an exercise in exhibition-making and as an extension of Artbank’s visible storage model, disparate works by a number of artists are displayed salon style in our Melbourne space. The show features work acquired from 1980 through to now and from all collecting areas of the collection, including: painting, photography, sculpture, works on paper, ceramics, textile, glass, and time-based media.
The yellow work, Love, by Tomsilav Nikolic was an inspirational starting point for our approach. Nikolic’s series of bright monochromatic works on paper are titled based on colour alone. The artist describes his process of titling as an ‘individual and subjective approach to colour’s effect’. As other artists were added a more complex picture was created of the relationship between art and the viewer and our own personal response to colour.
