Wendy Sharpe has held over sixty solo exhibitions around Australia and internationally. As 3:33 Art Projects near our third anniversary since we launched The Clayton Utz Art Partnership with leading Australian law firm, Clayton Utz, which featured Wendy Sharpe in 2017 we reflect on the privilege, and joy, in connecting new audiences to art.

Lottie Consalvo works across painting, performance and video to explore psychological shifts. Ideas surrounding desire, longing and the imaginary are present throughout her practice. Her performances are observations of quiet, transformative experiences and her paintings further this conversation.

Noel McKenna’s enigmatic practice is comprised of, at face value, direct symbols and the mise-en-scene of everyday life and yet his works bounce us out of stasis and strike an emotional chord. Uniquely, his career took off from a false start in architecture, a professor took him aside noting his ‘messy’ sketches, why not try art school?

Over the weekend we spoke to senior Australian artist Ann Thomson who has developed a refined and instinctual practice over five decades, and counting. Working out of her coastal studio we discussed how she still finds inspiration and splendour in the everyday.

Reg Mombassa’s work captures our attention with a witty, joyous and biting lens through which we can view Australian culture, its charm and failings. As such, the first few remarkable months of 2020 from bush fires to the pandemic have seen the artist leaning into his feelings of ‘alarm and anxiety’, and expressing this through art.

Heidi Yardley explores elusive worlds of displaced identity through representations of the female figure, often in surreal configurations. Yardley pairs her protagonists with ‘broken’ still lives (fragmented florals and displaced objects) through which the viewer can begin to decipher a language of fractured memory and unresolved relationships.

In this edition of ‘Living With Art’, 3:33 Art Projects speaks with David Griggs whose anarchistic approach took on new life in lockdown. His unique blend of portraiture, political imagery and vernacular motifs explore the darker side of the human condition and are often the result of a collaborative spirit, interested in cultures beyond his experience and the personal stories within them.