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Top End art at Switchback

29 October 2008

Stephen Anderson, 'Blue and Yellow Flow' 2008.

Stephen Anderson's mesmerising paintings, currently on exhibit at the Switchback Gallery at Gippsland, explore process and psychological states and show the influence of the Indigenous culture he is immersed in.

Mr Anderson, who recently completed the Master of Visual Arts course at Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, works as the Youth Program Coordinator at the Milingimbi community, Northern Territory.

Milingimbi is an island community just off the coast of Arnhem Land with a long, rich tradition of creative and cultural works including bark paintings, carvings and weavings.

Mr Anderson was formerly a ceramic artist so his work is also influenced by decorative and patterning traditions in pottery.

Monash art and design lecturer Julian Holcroft said: "Stephen's paintings are a high-wire act that folds tactile and performative actions such as markmaking, patching, and stitching into a complex mathematical system of realignments, displacements and divisions."

Switchback Gallery is open 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday, and located at Building 6S, Monash University, Gippsland campus.

For further information, telephone +61 3 5122 6261.

The exhibition runs until Thursday 6 November, 2008.