COADY Australian

COADY experiments with form and scale in the context of acrylic works and paintings and examines issues of socio-psychological concerns. Central to COADY’s practice is the reflection on the pharmaceutical...

Fresh from her recent solo exhibition at Finkelstein Gallery, Coady continues to question the vast appetite of consumerism with her brightly coloured, Pop Art-inspired work and Kate Rohde’s brilliantly decorative...

Building on her colloquial title of Pop Artist for the 21st century, Primary Instincts expandson Coadys’earlier works using pills as an encapsulation of our vices. Coadys’signature use of tablets serves as a visual stimulant, using shapes and colours to play with the iconography of contemporary consumerist culture and its promises of gratification, control and quick and easy fixes. In this exhibition, plastic pills and paintings explodein bright reds, yellows, blues and greens, evocative of childhood learning and games, creating a sense of familiarity and awakening our understanding of the complex layers of our conditioning from childhood. Primary Instincts peels back the layers of addiction, tying our dependency on medication to the manipulation of our most basic needs, security, comfort and control.

Cigdem Aydemir A socially and politically engaged art practice which investigates possibilities for intersubjective and transcultural communication with an interest in post- colonial and feminist issues. Kate Baker Work which...