Review + Feature // Ivimey and Roux
Untold secrets and imagined landscapes
Craig McKeough reviews exhibitions by Linde Ivimey and Susan Roux showing at Art Collective WA's Cathedral Square Gallery in Perth for Seesaw magazine.
There is likely no other commercial gallery in Western Australia that delivers such consistently strong showings of contemporary art as Art Collective WA in Cathedral Square.
Its rolling exhibition schedule of collective members and guests – usually with two artists paired up to deliver simultaneous shows – offers the chance for thoughtful curation and plenty of variety for the viewer.
The latest offerings continue that trend, with a rare chance for Perth to see the captivating sculptures and objects of expat Linde Ivimey along with collective member Susan Roux’s striking large-scale paper works.
Lyn di Ciero writes a feature article for Artist's Chronicle about Linde Ivimey's art career.
Known for her use of unusual and recycled materials, the survey component of the exhibition gives full reign to these with mediums such as fish, sheep, snakes, wallabies, cows, tortoise and bird bones, laundry lint, human teeth, champagne tops and peacock feathers as well as the use of stones such as garnets, amethyst, agate, quartz, peridot, topaz, onyx and pearls.
