Breaking Illusion – Abstraction in Action
Presented by Nolan Gallery
Betty Nolan, Caroline McGregor, Jack Braudis
Exhibition Dates :
19 – 31 March 2025
Sunday – Friday 10:00am – 5:00pm
10am – 5pm daily
Opening event:
21 March, 2025 | 6pm
Three painters, Betty Nolan, Caroline McGregor and Jack Braudis daub , draw, splash and dribble in an investigation into how abstract painting expresses meaning beyond observed reality.
Betty Nolan is an expressive abstract painter trained at Unitas and the University of Newcastle. Her current works build on previous exhibitions themed on space tourism, feminism and parallels between the body and the landscape.
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Caroline McGregor is an abstract artist with a Masters in Fine Arts from the National Art School (Darlinghurst). A sculptor as well as painter her works are interested in the liminal, (the space between things) and are characterised by a dark monochromatic subtlety whether in charcoal, oils or welded steel.
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Jack Braudis is best known as a painter of exuberant plein air landscapes. Characterised by thick richly textured oil paint his depiction of the landscape is influenced by the Rockport School in North America. This new work retains the exuberance of chasing the colour and light in Southern Tasmania but harks back to work undertaken at university in Boston. Mark Tobey, the New York Abstract Expressionists and Kandinsky of course are fundamental to his body of work.