selected works

Lesley's Journey

LESLEY DUMBRELL

THRUM

20 July – 13 October 2024
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Naala Nura, South building
Lower level 2

THRUM

Lesley Dumbrell: Thrum brings together works ranging from the experimental and unfinished to the highly realised and refined, and includes the joyous Spangle 1977, the first work by Lesley Dumbrell acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in 1979, as well as the magnificent Solstice 1974, an exceptional optical work that is a firm visitor favourite.

Geometries

Geometries’ brings together works that dazzle the eyes with colour and form. Using deceptively simple strategies — structuring relationships between the most elementary components of shape, scale and relative sequencing, for the most part described in pure, flat and vibrant colours — the artists behind these arrangements excel in creating mesmerising optical effects.

Abstraction 17: A Field of Interest, C. 1968

A group exhibition of hard-edge colour-field works to coincide with the re-staging of 1968 The Field exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. This painting is Promontories, Lesley Dumbrell, 1968, Liquitex on canvas. 213.5 x 213.5

Art Gallery NSW “Light and colour, moving”

Lesley Dumbrell: Thrum brings together works ranging from the experimental and unfinished to the highly realised and refined, and includes the joyous Spangle 1977, the first work by Lesley Dumbrell acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in 1979.