Every Picture Tells a Story
'Painting 334 (Old Parliament House)', 2025, acrylic on linen, 91cm x 101cm
'Canberra Drawings', 2024-2025, 14cm x 18.5cm, 10 pages
Every Picture Tells a Story
Playing with the idea that ‘every picture tells a story,’ King Street Gallery on William’s forthcoming summer exhibition will explore the idiosyncratic nature of an artist’s approach to the creation of an artwork, from initial conception to contemplation and completion.
Every Picture Tells a Story brings together artists’ creative endeavours in the form of concertina books, sketchbooks, and handmade books. As completed works within their own right, these books will accompany an artwork (painting, sculpture or another medium), inviting reflection on the artists’ individual approaches. The exhibition will feature work by selected contemporary Australian and international artists, including: Alex Bray, John Bokor, Tom Carment, Genevieve Carroll, Andrew Christofides, Maggie Hensel-Brown, Alan Daniel Jones, Jumaadi, Martin King, Ross Laurie, Joanna Logue, Euan Macleod, Martha Marlow, Rachel Milne, Jo Nolan, Peter O’Doherty, Amanda Penrose Hart, Heidrun Rathgeb, Douglas Schofield, Wendy Sharpe, Adriane Strampp, John Turier, Luke Sciberras and Guy Warren.
Artists’ books, carried from place to studio, may enclose preliminary sketches of sculptures, small-scale studies completed en plein air, or speak to the artists’ particular ideation or interior contemplation. On display at King Street Gallery on William from November 18 to December 18, Every Picture Tells a Story will showcase the distinctive approach of each artist to their practice, from initial conception to completion, inviting reflection that indeed, ‘every picture tells a story.’
Every Picture Tells a Story
King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
18 November - 13 December 2025
