Cosmic Glory, instillation view. Courtesy: the artists and FUTURES, Melbourne.

FUTURES presents Cosmic Glory, an exhibition that brings together paintings by Daniel Noonan with works by Sam Martin, transforming the gallery into an orchestral pit of sweeping gestures, optical fry, and potent colours.

The cosmos is the original setting for drama without life, containing expansion and energy; the minute and the epic; chaos and order. The sublime, even. These artists make work with cosmic undertones, although germination and growth are an intrinsic part of their processes. They cultivate pictures that contain both vastness and depth and a sense of life and vitality within abstraction.