{"id":3966,"date":"2017-10-13T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T06:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2017-10-13T16:29:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T06:29:36","slug":"harsh-landscapes-organic-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=3966","title":{"rendered":"HARSH LANDSCAPES, ORGANIC SCULPTURES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"icon_link\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=3966\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p><strong>Mel Brigg<\/strong> with his hauntingly beautiful collection of paintings depicting his love of nature, animals and the wide open spaces of Australia and South Africa- as well as <strong>Laurindo De Abreu Soto <\/strong>with \u201cDiversity\u201d, his latest collection of exquisite sculptures- will be exhibiting at Brisbane based Red Hill Gallery from Friday 8 September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>South African born artist <strong>Mel Brigg<\/strong> has always said \u2018I paint not because I want to, but because I must\u2019. He has often been compelled to paint conveying his feelings and his message, as he believes painting is \u2018a powerful way to make a statement about anything that moves you\u2019. Drawing inspiration from the interior regions of Australia &#8211; the vastness and intensity of light, combined with the spirituality of the indigenous peoples &#8211; is a never ending source of subject matter for his work. Each of Brigg\u2019s paintings is seemingly simple, yet highly skilled, and expansive in their vision.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3967\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/M-Brigg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1393\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/M-Brigg.jpg 1393w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/M-Brigg-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/M-Brigg-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/M-Brigg-1024x264.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1393px) 100vw, 1393px\" \/><strong>Laurindo De Abreu Soto <\/strong>describes his practice like life itself &#8211; a dynamic and ever growing entity, which moves back and forth in time and ideas. His work as a sculptor is closely related to design and architecture, and is consequently very \u201cobject based\u201d. As a sculptor, his main concern and field of practice is Space, in which the work of art serves as a boundary that allows us to appreciate that space. The sculptures presented in this exhibition are a continuation of his exploration into the possibilities of materials &#8211; such as fibreglass, plywood, and Laminex &#8211; along with their combinations and interplay.<\/p>\n<p>Mel Brigg\u2019s latest exhibition of emotive landscapes, and Laurindo De Abreu Soto\u2019s collection of sculptures entitled \u201cDiversity,\u201d will open on Friday 8 September and continue until Sunday 24 September 2017 at Red Hill Gallery, 61 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, QLD.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Red Hill Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Hill Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=499790883388518\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=3966\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"150\" action=\"recommend\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareMel Brigg with his hauntingly beautiful collection of paintings depicting his love of nature, animals and the wide open spaces of Australia and South Africa- as well as Laurindo De Abreu Soto with \u201cDiversity\u201d, his latest collection of exquisite sculptures- &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=3966\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,4,171,262,176,63,19,281,199,188,283,226,231,8,200,43,7,159,335,20,334,336,202,174,106,127,253,224,18,341,337,24,339,222,347,223,13,338,29,36,6,144,126,255],"tags":[181,290,121,61,9,152,14,123,15,306,295,184,129,122,120,325,293,65,321,292,160,296,322,311,66,124,16,64,297,67,294,299,10,312,310,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3968,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions\/3968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}