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The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis at Buxton Contemporary
Photography by Christian Capurro
Wall labels written by artist Kodwo Eshun

Melbourne’s major new art museum draws upon the Michael Buxton Collection as a springboard for exhibitions, events, research, publishing and ideas.

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Happy Holidays from Buxton Contemporary! We are op

Happy Holidays from Buxton Contemporary! We are open today and tomorrow as usual between 11am-5pm, but there are some changes to our opening hours as of Dec 24th. Swipe for full holiday hours ➡️

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Artwork Peter Tyndall, courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne. University of Melbourne Art Collection, Michael Buxton Collection.

Peter Tyndall is regarded by many as a quintessent

Peter Tyndall is regarded by many as a quintessential Melbourne art world artist. His works can be found across major collections across the country, but for the first time in his career, Buxton Contemporary is bringing together a major selection of works for one celebratory solo show.

Tyndall’s work extends across large-scale paintings and installations to experimental music and art blogging (you can find his blog ‘b/Logos HAHA’ at the link in our bio). This curated online diary is a devoted interpretation of local art history underscored by his position as a key insider himself in Melbourne’s contemporary art scene.

Tyndall doesn’t just make art— he notices it, examines it, talks about it, and reblogs it. 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘺𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘭 is open 11am-5pm today.

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Installation view of Peter Tyndall exhibition, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 2022-2023, courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

Our new exhibition, Peter Tyndall, charts the deve

Our new exhibition, Peter Tyndall, charts the development of the artist's philosophical framework for seeing and viewing art – and ourselves – in relation to the world around us.

Visit our website for extended texts about each artwork and audio recorded with the artist himself!

Open Wed-Sun 11am-5pm.

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Installation view of Peter Tyndall exhibition, Buxton Contemporary, the University of Melbourne, 2022-2023, courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

For Peter Tyndall, the act of looking at art becom

For Peter Tyndall, the act of looking at art becomes an exchange between the viewer and the art object itself. The person looking becomes implicated as the subject to the object of the Work of Art – or the ‘something’ being looked at.

Enter the interwoven world of this extraordinary artist in Peter Tyndall, open 11am-5pm today at Buxton Contemporary.

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Installation view, Peter Tyndall, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 9 December 2022 - 16 April 2023, courtesy of Anna Schwartz Gallery.

Someone looks at something... a few snaps from Pet

Someone looks at something... a few snaps from Peter Tyndall opening last night, where we unveiled the first major retrospective of one of Australia's most influential artists.

Peter Tyndall is now open at Buxton Contemporary.

Visit us Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm.

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Installation views, Peter Tyndall, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 9 December 2022 - 16 April 2023, courtesy of Anna Schwartz Gallery.

In true Pop Art fashion, Peter Tyndall sources gra

In true Pop Art fashion, Peter Tyndall sources graphic imagery from print media including advertisements, newspaper photography and cartoons.

Here, a 1950s-era comic book illustration features the lethal gaze of a man projecting laser beam x-ray vision from his eyeballs. Floating above, a speech bubble contains his signature symbol (a hanging work of art, which here has been flipped on its side).

You would be mistaken for thinking that Tyndall’s works are digital prints. Unlike his contemporary Pop Art-inspired peers however, he paints with acrylic his meticulous execution derivative of 50 years of rigorous studio practice.

Celebrating half a century of vision and talent, 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘺𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘭 opens Friday 9 December at Buxton Contemporary!

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Artwork Peter Tyndall, courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

Amassing a cult following since his stellar rise i

Amassing a cult following since his stellar rise in the Melbourne art scene in the 1970s, Peter Tyndall is regarded by many as unique in his vision.

Senior Curator of Art Museums Samantha Comte writes, “This exhibition celebrates half a century of his constant, inventive permeations, looking at art, ourselves and the world, which we are eager to introduce to a new generation”.

𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘺𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘭 opens at Buxton Contemporary Friday 9 December.

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Artwork Peter Tyndall, courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

Announcing 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘺𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘭: the first major retrospective exhibition from one of Melbourne’s most influential artists.

Featuring over 200 works, the exhibition will include paintings, drawings, correspondence art and unseen works ranging back to the 1970s, drawing from @unimelb’s collection alongside works on loan from national institutions and private collections.

With a rigorous studio practice spanning 50 years, Peter Tyndall‘s expansive works contemplate the fundamental questions about the construction of meaning.

9 December 2022 – 16 April 2023

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Artwork Peter Tyndall, courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

🐜 Posted @withrepost • @artistprofile “It’s usually in early December that artists and critics are approached by newspapers and magazines to nominate their ‘exhibition of the year.’ I would like to step in early and state confidently that Susan Jacobs’s The Ants are In the Idiom, recently installed at Melbourne’s Buxton Contemporary, is my exhibition of 2022. To date, I have visited it five times.”

Peter Hill profiles Susan Jacobs, the artist behind his early-announced exhibition of the year, in our current issue. Talking with Jacobs via Zoom from her East London studio, Hill explores the figure of the artist as magician (and audience as “mark”), Jacobs’s early experience building and making with her father in Coffs Harbour, and a tendency in her work which Hill terms “neo-trompe-l’oeil.”

IMAGE: Susan Jacobs photographed by Louis Trerise, 2022

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We respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin nation, the traditional owners of the land on which Buxton Contemporary is situated.

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