Kerrie Poliness
Landscape paintings 2025
acrylic, acrylic paint
$POA
Kerrie Poliness is known for her painting and drawing works that revisit the ideas and practices of conceptual art. She uses everyday materials to produce large scale asymmetrical geometric artworks which respond to the place in which they are made. Since the early-1990s Poliness has designed systems for making art. Patterns are drawn onto various surfaces via instruction manuals, which enable other people to participate in the process of making her artworks. The drawings and the process of making them reveals something intrinsic about matter, that nothing is physically perfect or symmetrical even if it looks like it is. These artworks highlight interconnective processes and patterns of nature and people, and often involve workshops and collective activity.
Poliness’s significant exhibition history includes Field Drawing #1, HOTA, Gold Coast (2018); Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2017); Landscape Paintings (Lake Bolac and Zagreb) and Wave Drawings (orange and green), G-MK, Zagreb (2014); Trace: Performance and its Documents, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2014); Wall works, Arts Lifts, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2014); and Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013). Poliness has developed a number of site-specific public artworks including Stream, Green Square, Zetland, Sydney (2022); Parliament Steps Walking Drawing, Melbourne (2021); Field Drawing #1, Maywar Green, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2014); and Wave Drawings, Highpoint Shopping Centre, Melbourne (2013). Her work is in public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, and Dowse Museum, Lower Hutt, as well as prominent private and corporate collections.
Kerrie Poliness is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Images: Kerrie Poliness, Landscape paintings 2017 (top); Kerrie Poliness (bottom). Courtesy the artist.
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