The fascinating and lively Step Right Up: the Circus in Australian Art offers both an appealling and challenging exhibition about all things 'circus' related from a fine arts perspective. Newly commissioned works, together with an historical survey, explore the many mythologies of the circus - as a refuge from real life, as an imaginary world of exaggerated good and evil, and of physical achievement and mystery. Artists include Tom Alberts, Graeme Drendel, James Guppy, Petrina Hicks, Warren Langley, Nerrisa Lea, Stewart MacFarlane, Alexander Seaton, Arthur Wicks, Anne Zahalka and more ... |