Art Nouveau Meets Post Baroque
Presented by West End Art Space
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West End Art Space
112 Adderley Street, West Melbourne VIC 3003, Australia
Art Nouveau Meets Post Baroque brings together two simultaneous exhibitions: Brea Lanyon: The Harvest, a sculptural series in blackened steel, and works by Studio Onyx, a collective working with white plaster, gesso and paper. Through materially opposed practices, the exhibition explores ornament, revivalism and structural tension, revisiting historic aesthetic languages through contemporary form and material discipline.
Participants
Brea Lanyon
Brea Lanyon is a Melbourne/Naarm-based artist whose practice investigates structural tension and material transformation. Working primarily in steel, Lanyon constructs forms that balance industrial rigidity with organic movement. Her works explore weight, suspension and spatial rhythm, interrogating how material force can generate both containment and flow. Through precise fabrication processes, she reframes steel as a medium capable of delicacy as well as monumentality.
Studio Onyx
Studio Onyx is a contemporary collective working with plaster as both a sculptural and architectural medium. Drawing from historical relief traditions, their practice explores ornament, surface and spatial layering through contemporary form. By manipulating light and shadow, Studio Onyx transforms plaster into immersive environments that blur the boundary between sculpture and structure, reinterpreting decorative languages through a minimal yet materially expressive approach.