[Original size] TEN invitation_DRAFT_01White Canvas Gallery presents an exhibition of ten contemporary painted works surveying the ways that painters continue to explore and re-invent abstract painting. Ten Queensland artists with individual painting practices are invited to participate in the exhibition exploring paint as the idea, the subject, and the medium, on large scale landscape or portrait formats. Formalism, abstraction, and the stylisation of a number of personal and historical realities are expressed through spatial and figurative painterly renditions. The significance of the number ten is threefold: The number of artists; The paintings exhibited; The numerology of ten (10) symbolising the completion of a set and, or a new beginning inspiring new behaviours and interpretations of ways of being in the world.

The ‘Ten’ artists are curators: Robyn Kirk, Louise Isackson and Paula Payne plus Kieran Forster, Kate Barry, Peter Ceredig-Evans, Harry Macintosh, Andrew O’Brien, Llewelly Skye and Amica Whincop. The Artists have selected the artists for their familiarity with abstract interpretations.