David Harley, ComPulse (still), 2023. Mp4 video, 5 mins. Courtesy: the artist and Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne.

King Street Gallery on William presents an exhibition of work by David Harley.

Dr Barb Bolt, in her introductory essay to this survey exhibition of video-based works by Harley, concludes: “There is something of the “ugliness” of the first born that is so compelling in this exhibition. In the later moving paintings, we see the struggle realised in works of incredible sophistication and vision. Yet, for me, it is within the earlier works that we glimpse those initial and tentative formations and vocabularies that were becoming multi-modal free-form painting. It is a rare gift that we see an artist lay themself bare in this manner and a rare trust that a gallery should offer the space and opportunity for this to occur. ‘Quasi una fantasia’ is becoming reality.”

Opening Event: Friday 1 March, 5 – 7pm.

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