Kaye Shumack: Drawing Sydney

EXHIBITION DATES: Satuday 6 – Saturday 27 November 2021
EXHIBITION LOCATION: The Drawing Gallery
OPENING HOURS: Monday–Saturday, 11am–5pm
CURATOR: Katrina Cashman and Joe Frost

Kaye Shumack: Drawing Sydney presents a selection of drawings created over the past four to five years by NAS alumna Kaye Shumack, a much-admired member of the NAS community who very sadly passed away recently. With her acute powers of observation, Shumack’s expressive drawings explore motifs and traces from the urban landscapes of Sydney’s public spaces and streetscapes, revealing the beauty of the city’s lesser known, ordinary locales as well as key landmarks.

These observations, combined with memory of place, elicit the sense of the artist creating a dialogue between time and place, melding the present and the past. As Sydney continues to be re-shaped by large building and infrastructure projects, urban spaces are increasingly contested.