Julian Meagher
The Green Ray
3 feb. — 18 mar. 2023
Julian Meagher
The Green Ray
3 feb. — 18 mar. 2023
Image: Julian Meagher, The Green Ray - 1, 2022, oil on linen. Image courtesy of the artist and Yavuz Gallery. Photograph: Mark Pokorny
Image: Julian Meagher, The Green Ray - 1, 2022, oil on linen. Image courtesy of the artist and Yavuz Gallery. Photograph: Mark Pokorny
Julian Meagher
The Green Ray
3 feb. — 18 mar. 2023
The Green Ray is a return to Julian Meagher's earliest subject matter of land and sky. Drawing on memories of treasured family holidays to Crookwell, NSW, Meagher‘s exhibition is imbued with personal histories and nostalgia, reflecting on the passage of time and the natural environment. Meagher’s exhibition features a new body of work including large scale paintings and a light installation which creates an immersive and changing viewing experience.
Continuing Meagher’s sustained interest in atmospheric optical phenomena, the exhibition references a light effect sometimes visible on an unobstructed distant horizon at sunset and sunrise, ’the green ray’. It appears fleetingly and it is so uncommon it retains a mythical status. The Green Ray plays with hyper-romantic links between nature and feeling, and the blurred lines between what is real and unreal. What seems ephemeral can instead be something enduring, revealed to us in glimpses.
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Artist workshop with Julian Meagher
Artist Talk with Julian Meagher
Exhibition Opening: Julian Meagher ‘The Green Ray’, Jacqueline Bradley and 'The Window'
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Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring introductory text. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray - 4, 2022 and Julian Meagher, Rapid Eye Movement – 5, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, Rapid Eye Movement – 5, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 1, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, Rapid Eye Movement – 5, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 1, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 6, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 1, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 6, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 1, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 6, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray - 4, 2022 and Julian Meagher, Rapid Eye Movement – 5, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 1, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray - 4, 2022 and Julian Meagher, Rapid Eye Movement – 5, 2022 , Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 1, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 6, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 7, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 7, (detail), 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 8, 9, 10 (triptych), 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 8, 9, 10 (triptych), 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 8, 9, 10 (triptych), 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 8, 9, 10 (triptych), 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Julian Meagher, The Green Ray - 1, 2022, oil on linen. Image courtesy of the artist and Yavuz Gallery. Photograph: Mark Pokorny
Julian Meagher
The Green Ray
3 feb. — 18 mar. 2023
The Green Ray is a return to Julian Meagher's earliest subject matter of land and sky. Drawing on memories of treasured family holidays to Crookwell, NSW, Meagher‘s exhibition is imbued with personal histories and nostalgia, reflecting on the passage of time and the natural environment. Meagher’s exhibition features a new body of work including large scale paintings and a light installation which creates an immersive and changing viewing experience.
Continuing Meagher’s sustained interest in atmospheric optical phenomena, the exhibition references a light effect sometimes visible on an unobstructed distant horizon at sunset and sunrise, ’the green ray’. It appears fleetingly and it is so uncommon it retains a mythical status. The Green Ray plays with hyper-romantic links between nature and feeling, and the blurred lines between what is real and unreal. What seems ephemeral can instead be something enduring, revealed to us in glimpses.
Related Events
Artist workshop with Julian Meagher
Artist Talk with Julian Meagher
Exhibition Opening: Julian Meagher ‘The Green Ray’, Jacqueline Bradley and 'The Window'
14
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring introductory text. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray - 4, 2022 and Julian Meagher, Rapid Eye Movement – 5, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, Rapid Eye Movement – 5, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 1, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, Rapid Eye Movement – 5, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 1, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 6, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 1, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 6, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 1, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 6, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray - 4, 2022 and Julian Meagher, Rapid Eye Movement – 5, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 1, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray - 4, 2022 and Julian Meagher, Rapid Eye Movement – 5, 2022 , Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 1, 2022 and Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 6, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 7, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 7, (detail), 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 8, 9, 10 (triptych), 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 8, 9, 10 (triptych), 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 8, 9, 10 (triptych), 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 8, 9, 10 (triptych), 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.