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Survey 1999 - 2009 [solo exhibition]
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Survey 1999 - 2009 [solo exhibition]

Kurt Brereton
Wollongong City Gallery (Wollongong, Australia, 18-Jul-2009–23-Aug-2009)
2009
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Abstract

Visual Arts and Crafts
Artist Kurt Brereton is just as likely to wield a camera or use a Mac to create art, as he is to pick up a tube of paint and brush. Brereton neither operates within the confines of the classical art tradition, nor on the new media front, but straddles the two, blurring the distinctions in order to revitalise and re-image the landscape tradition of his concern, as he makes his range of hybrid art forms. Whatever media is involved when Brereton makes a work is done so in the name of alerting audiences to environmental changes. By manipulating formats as disparate as the video and the lino-cut, Brereton has built up a solid art practice over 20 years dedicated to the preservation of the natural world, the culmination of which will be on display in his survey show at Wollongong City Gallery from mid-July. Over the last decade the Illawarra-based artist has had 15 solo shows, including exhibiting in the United States and Taiwan, all of which have enticed the audience to consider how we see the environment in a globalised world; comodifying it, treating it carelessly like so many consumer goods. Kurt Brereton Survey 1999-2009 will feature key works such as Illawarra Escarpment - 2007, and Mangrove-Time - 2009, from his Searise series. A number of new paintings from his Luscious Series recently shown in New York will also be on show. As a resident of Bulli, NSW, Brereton's art is a response to the rapidly changing nature of the rainforest, mangrove and beach environments of his neighbourhood.

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