David Whyte and Brendan Smith are exhibiting at Land Street Gallery, Toowong.
Whyte’s art like quantum science is gifted to challenge the status quo and to expose that which is new and at the peripheral of our limited senses. Mondrian, Klee, Rothko, Miro, Pollock, Beuys peeled back layers and revealed the mark, the surface to scratch, stab and to caress the yet unexplored regions of our bone encased organic quantum computer. In this tradition art has always paralleled and reacted to the wonderment of cutting edge science, more so today than ever before.
Smith’s creative workings have no fixed meanings. They are beyond being controlled by creator or observer. Working with tactile materials that often reference the past these simple forms often salvaged or close to hand are repurposed with interventions that are at times barely detectable have a perceptiveness is