Entries about museum contemporary art

Neon Light Installations (Peter Kennedy)

Drawing for Neon Light Installations (Peter Kennedy)

U-8 Links (William Seeto)
...the perceptual qualities or art; how it affects our senses and how it can alter our awareness of space and time.

Be Some Other Material (Sandra Selig)
...shows squares and rectangles of light projected on wall and a column.

While appearing to accidently interact with its surroundings, the work is in fact highly choreographed.

Untitled 2014 (Daniel Boyd)
...more than 18,000 circular disks reflecting the activity of the MCA foyer.

naa (to see or look) (Jonathan Jones)

to be carried away by the current, to be dissolved in the Other (Sangeeta Sandrasegar)
...larger than life, faces out over the harbour to the ocean beyond.

It is a mer-child, combining the body of a child with the head of an ancient fish, a fossil of this 419 million year old fish was recently discovered in China.

Untitled 2005 (Spiderman) (Stephen Birch)
...confrontation between a life sized model of the superhero Spiderman and a worm-like, bearded figre, whose head sits on an arm-;ike neck.

Arnott's Collection
...consists of over 260 nark paintings from the late 1960's.

Particle paradise (Brian Blanchflower)
...passionate about the natural environment, in particular the colours, textures and vasr scales of the Australian desert.

The Tenderness of Rain (Lindy Lee)
...pierced and burnt with a soldering iron.

Showtime (Nike Savvas)

The Price is Right (Fiona Hall)
...made form humble Tupperware household items.

Automated Colourfield (Rebecca Baumann)
...100 flip clock and lasser cut paper

Snake Oil (Hany Armanious)

it's kept together by moving all around (Nigel Milsom)

Returning to Places (Ricky Maynard)
...Wik people, who were dispossessed of their land through mining and pastoral leases in the early 20th century.

Painted Room

Part of a temporary exhibition Luminous is an exhibition of light works by Australian artists from the MCA Collection. Luminous includes shooting star spirits, geometric patterns of light and dark dancing on walls, ambient installations and infinity windows carved into architectural space. Featuring works that explore the astonishing and subtle effects of light, the exhibition presents works created from the 1970s to the present day.