This World and Another
The joyfulness embedded in This World and Another is on show at Luminance Gallery until 3 April.
We’re two weeks into This World and Another and a good number of people have commented on the vibrancy of the works and their astonishing detail.
The artist is Port Macquarie resident Malcolm Harding.
Malcolm talks about This World and Another as abstract representations of cells, amoeba, planets or stars. These organisms appear to float on the canvas; they allude to life under a glass slide or the infinity of outer space.
“Many microscopic images have an uncanny similarity to their macroscopic counterparts. Often these images look more like art than science. This observation has captured my interest for many years and is expressed in my paintings through the use of shapes, marks, colours and textures that suggest things that exist in microscopic and macroscopic worlds.
“Some of the works use a finely-etched grid to give an impression of scientific credibility and to suggest a governing principle that holds everything together.
“The grid operates as a visible representation of order. It articulates an organising theory for natural phenomena.”
If you’d like to see Malcolm’s work and haven’t yet, Luminance Gallery is open from 11am to 3pm, Thursday to Saturday.
This World and Another runs until 3 April 2025.
Private viewings are welcome.
Chris Proctor up next
Chris Proctor’s new collection of paintings explores the profound tension between ambition, struggle, and revelation.
If I Had Known Above the Mountains Lies Eternal Sunshine I Never Would Have Stopped Climbing.
Paintings by Chris Proctor.
5 - 26 April 2025
Chris Proctor’s work is highly engaging, skilfully executed, intentionally naive. He’s also the artist who created the Luminance Gallery logos.
This new collection of paintings explores the profound tension between ambition, struggle, and revelation.
If I Had Known Above the Mountains Lies Eternal Sunshine I Never Would Have Stopped Climbing speaks to the human condition — the ever-present push to ascend, to reach, to transcend ... desperate for whatever peace or fulfilment awaits on the other side of our toil.
Each piece in this exhibition reflects a journey, some personal, some universal. The mountains act as obstacles, challenges, and aspirations; they represent the highs and lows of life’s pursuits. The "eternal sunshine" that lies beyond is not just a destination, but an awareness: the moment of clarity, peace, or understanding that comes when we are able to step back and see the bigger picture, or perhaps when we finally pause long enough to notice that we were already there.
Chris Proctor’s solo exhibiton at Luminance Gallery challenges the viewer to question their own relationships with ambition and stillness. The works ask us to reflect on the tension between the relentless pursuit of success and the quiet contentment of simply being.