Exhibition Date
Exhibition Opening
Saturday 28 February 2026, 1 > 4PM
Visual
Rating 100%
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This exhibition presents Melbourne artist Andrée van Schaik’s recent collages and paintings. The artist’s work expressively challenges
the notion of narrative, by presenting stereotypical fragments of contemporary lifestyle. The collages which the paintings are based on are
tightly wound, almost jigsaw-like in their construction, as the viewer is presented with fragments of seemingly unrelated images – of
fabric, leather, silhouetted figures, and obstructed gazes.
In her paintings and collages she makes free use of surprising and abrupt transitions and juxtapositions. Her working methodology seeks
to distil entire blocks of emotion and complex experiences into the telling detail, the closely observed fragment that stands in for
the whole. As a result, the paintings and collages produce kaleidoscopic effects reflecting the constant stream of simultaneous
thoughts, feelings, and visuals that constitute an intense, energetic, and humorous portrayal of contemporary life today.
Andrée van Schaik is an artist who lives and works in Melbourne, where she has
been painting, drawing, writing and composing music for the last twenty-four years. Her paintings are a marker of where she is, and has
been, at certain emotional points in time. Seeking to echo the lightness, depth, and sense of infinity of impressions of the world.
Andrée’s works merge the human, the landscape and the architectural to reflect her puzzlement over life.