Image above: Zodiacs Dance 2021 charcoal 85 x 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Andrew Antoniou has been featured in a thoughtful review penned by the renowned art critic Sasha Grishin for Canberra Times. The review responds to his recent exhibition ‘PROPS, MASKS & MAGIC’, which showed at Grainger Gallery in late August. In this exhibition, Antoniou paints costumed figures arranged as if on a stage, surrounded by animals and props to form a strangely elusive narrative.
“Their actions appear to be deliberate, but their purpose is not revealed to the viewer, nor is it clear the role played by the various props, symbols or rites that surround and seem to preoccupy these characters.”
Divining Rite 2021 oil on canvas 153 x 122 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
“Exhibitions such as this one and recent shows at the Australian Galleries demand that he be taken seriously as a significant figurative artist who with his theatre of life, dreams and nightmares has developed a unique voice within Australian art.” – Sasha Grishin.
Read the full article here.
Find a list of available works by Andrew Antoniou on the Australian Galleries website here, or make an enquiry through enquiries@australiangalleries.com.au.