Peter Neilson: Melbourne exhibition

INTERLUDE: An exhibition of drawings by Peter Neilson

Australian Galleries

50 Smith Street

Collingwood, Victoria

Australia

Ph (0)3 9417 0800

From Tuesday September 2 to Saturday September 25, 2010.

Mon-Sat 10am to 6pm

Sun 10am-6pm

An exhibition of drawings by Peter Neilson will be held at Australian Galleries at its Smith Street gallery in Melbourne from Tuesday, September 2, 2010 for two weeks.

Under the name Interlude the drawings are a series of charcoal and chalk drawings of working tools: hammer, pliers, brushes, etc.

The exhibition's name gathers around it a number of ideas related to the activity and pause between each day's work and also the laying down of working tools after a lifetime's use before being picked up and used by another generation. Well kept working tools can last many times longer than the worker. It is also an exhibition in praise of hard work.

The exhibition opening will also be the occasion for the launch of Andrew Benjamin's book of essays Writing Art and Architecture. Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.