Sympathy and Difference is a group exhibition exploring friendship, collaboration, dialogue and collective exchange through contemporary art practice.
Drawing inspiration from Michel Foucault’s preface to Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Deleuze and Guattari, the exhibition considers the group not as a fixed hierarchy but as a fluid space of de-individualisation, conversation and shared creative process.
The exhibition reflects on friendship as both subject and methodology — as ecosystem, discussion, unfinished gesture and collaborative structure. Works emerge through acts of making together and apart, through conversations, intersections and ongoing exchanges between artists.
Featuring drawing, print media, installation and new media works, the exhibition brings together artists whose practices move between personal, conceptual and collective approaches to image-making and communication.
Artists include Caroline Austin, Sharon Cislowski, A Group of Friends Reading Plays, Franz Ehmann, Tim Hilton, Victoria Lawson, Natasha Narain, Caitlin Reed, Eb Secombe and Naomi Oliver. Collectively, the artists have exhibited internationally and are represented in national and international contemporary collections.
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Caroline Austin, Wandering Atmospherics, 2024, photographic print on Canson Photographique 310gsm.
Dr Natasha Narain, Pink Tara (detail), 2011, acrylic, pen and collage on canvas.
