MELBOURNE-based artist Michael Vale’s exhibition The Cuckoo, the Herring and the Trembling Tambourines fuses Romantic traditions, absurdist theatre, dark fiction, and mischievous humour. His works invite viewers into worlds where drama and comedy collide, where the familiar and uncanny coexist, and where every detail – gathered through years of observation, travel, and study – is carefully reimagined. Vale has spent much of his life exploring the world and absorbing its artistic treasures, collecting subtle details from old master paintings and popular imagery and absorbing them into his own, imaginative, visual language. Vale began his career as a scenic artist, painting…
Saturday, March 7
