This Month at Geelong Gallery
From 24 May – 17 August, Geelong Gallery presents Janenne Eaton: Lines of Sight—Frame and Horizon, a major survey of one of Australia’s most critically acclaimed contemporary artists. Presented exclusively at Geelong Gallery, this retrospective exhibition offers a stunning encounter with Eaton’s bold paintings and installations across more than four decades of her practice.
A celebrated artist and teacher, Eaton has influenced generations of Australian artists. This long overdue survey exhibition explores Eaton’s engagement with environmental, historical, and political concerns, and the impact of a globalised, digital world. Her powerful images contemplate the intangible complexities of the human condition and incorporate key signifiers of our consumer-led, information-obsessed society to deliver commentary on how we live and our changing relationships to time, space and place. Eaton’s practice remains as urgent and thought-provoking as ever.
Curated by former Geelong Gallery Director & CEO Jason Smith (now Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia), the exhibition will be installed across five galleries and will include Eaton’s award-winning painting from the 1998 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Screens and reflections: The Never Never.
Entry to this exhibition is free.
