Tableaux 2006 Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art Sydney
Part of the mystery of finding something is the imaginative process that ensues, trying to piece together a narrative that will make sense of things. There are questions to be answered. Davy Rothbart, Editor, FOUND Magazine It is not unusual to find sculptor Matt Calvert scouring highways for splintered shards of shiny plastic. The reflective remains […]
Reflections: Picking up the Pieces
Tasmanian artist Matt Calvert, top, and with his father Greg, bottom, who was killed in a road accident. Photo: Peter Mathew Memories of his father loom large in Matt Calvert’s unusual work, writes Megan Backhouse. As flowers go, they are a bit greasy and muddy, for sure, but smashed scraps of car reflector lens actually […]
Too Strange
I am wary of approaching anything marked “installation”. Rather than leaving the viewer to casually saunter around the gallery gazing at individual art works neatly categorised under a title or specific theme, installation swallows you whole. In order to visually penetrate the work, one must become physically immersed in the artist’s domain. I often feel […]
