Lovely Thunder
12 April – 25 May 2025
Performance Arts Culture Cessnock
Exhibiting artists: Ron Adams, Reg Bryson, Chris Capper, Rod Denson, Chris Dolman, Sarah Edmondson, Emily Galicek, Jeremy Kirwan-Ward, Adrian McDonald, Adam Norton, Nuha Saad, Sherna Teperson, Darren McDonald, Michael Rolfe, Helen Smith. Curated by George Adams
The title, Lovely Thunder, hints at the physical beauty of sound, rather than colour. However this exhibition is quite definitely about colour and the effects it has as it passes into the eye and rings in the mind. We might think on it as an album that on each track shifts direction and invites your imagination to run free.
George Adams has selected a group of fifteen contemporary artists whose use of colour often sets up an almost synaesthetic response for the viewer. All the artists use colour as a lever, by which they open up their works. Ranging through different palettes, subject matter and genre, the common thread here is the power of art to affect our view of the world.
image: Adam Norton, Ultra Violet, 2015, synthetic polymer paint and pigment print on canvas, 174 x 120 cm. Photo: Docqment
