Ceara Metlikovec
The Ancient Future
April 22 - May 16, 2022
Exhibition views and time lapse by Ashley Mackevicius
Ceara Metlikovec
b. 1981 Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Shoalhaven, Australia
Ceara Metlikovec is an Australian artist. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School in Sydney, 2001. And she received her Bachelor in Art Education from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in 2006. She then taught High School Visual Arts, between 2006 and 2011. After which she returned to her Visual Arts practice. In 2017 she presented her first solo show with Fox Jensen McCrory in Auckland New Zealand, and then her first solo show in 2018 in Sydney at Fox Jensen, from which the Art Gallery of New South Wales acquired a piece. Her work has been represented in Art Basel Hong Kong, Auckland Art Fair and Sydney Contemporary as well as the curated projects Carbon (2017), Portrait Without a Face (2018, catalogue), Evenfall (2019) and Analogue (2020, catalogue).
The 2018 project Portrait Without a Face situated my works alongside artists such as Imi Knoebel (DE), Helmut Federle (SUI), Jan Albers (DE) & Gunter Umberg (DE) in a context that spoke directly to the discreet notions of character and “being” that fascinate me and drive my practice.
My solo exhibition Maya in Sydney in late 2018 allowed for the presentation of four major drawings, the largest works realized to date. The Art Gallery of New South Wales acquired a piece for their collection.
The Crystalline, November, 2021, Ironstone, 47.5 x 2 x 47.5cm
The Crystalline, October, 2021, Ironstone, 18 x 1.2 x 18
The Crystalline, September, 2021, Ironstone, 24 x 0.9 x 24cm
The Golden Chain 1, 2020, Gouache on wood, 30 x 1.5 x 30cm
The Golden Chain 3, 2021, Gouache on wood, 30 x 1.5 x 30cm
The Golden Chain 5, 2021, Gouache on wood, 30 x 1.5 x 30cm
The Golden Chain 2, 2021, Gouache on wood, 30 x 1.5 x 30cm
The Golden Chain 4, 2021, Gouache on wood, 30 x 1.5 x 30cm
The Golden Chain 6, 2021, Gouache on wood, 30 x 1.5 x 30cm
Ik Tara 2020 – 2021, Over 5000 stoneware bricks, 3m diameter, 2020 – 2021
Seed April, 2021, Four pieces of Ironstone, 22 x 3.6 x 22cm
Seed August, 2021, Two pieces of Ironstone, 18 x 1.8 x 18cm
Seed May, 2021, Three pieces of Ironstone, 21 x 2.2 x 21cm
Seed July, 2021, Four pieces of Ironstone, 22 x 2.2 x 22cm
Seed July, 2021, Four pieces of Ironstone, 22 x 2.2 x 22cm
Seed September, 2021, Four pieces of Ironstone, 22 x 3 x 22cm
Seed January, 2021, Ironstone, 18.5 x 0.8 x 18.5cm
Seed January, 2021, Ironstone, 18.5 x 0.8 x 18.5cm
Seed June, 2021, Ironstone, 16.8 x 0.8 x 16.8cm
Seed February, 2021, Ironstone, 8.5 x 1.8 x 8.5cm
Seed February, 2021, Ironstone, 8.5 x 1.8 x 8.5cm
Seed October, 2021, Ironstone, 20.2 x 0.6 x 20.2cm (detail)
Seed October, 2021, Ironstone, 20.2 x 0.6 x 20.2cm
Indigo 14, April 2018, Graphite on Fabriano, 150 x 105cm (Framed) 2018
Indigo 14, June 2017, Graphite on Fabriano, 150 x 105cm (Framed) 2017
Indigo 21, July 2017 , Graphite on Fabriano, 150 x 105cm (Framed) 2017
Maya, 13 July 2018 , Graphite on Fabriano, 150 x 105cm (Framed) 2018
Maya, 13 July 2018 , Graphite on Fabriano, 150 x 105cm (Framed) 2018