“The Graven Image | Alexandra Peters” The Warrnambool Art Gallery Exhibition Review | MeMo Review
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In contesting the role of the image, Alexandra Peters reimagines it as structure and intervention. Here, painting refuses to seal over absence or to stabilise rupture as Tower Hill once did. Whereas von Guérard’s landscape naturalised rupture into pictorial stability and even mobilised it as infrastructural vision, Peters’s exhibition insists on keeping the fissures open. Her works operate as a patterned field, a disruption of order. What emerges is the image as threshold: a precarious site where instability is held open, and where the invisible and ineffable can be depicted without being contained…
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Installation view, Alexandra Peters, The Graven Image, 2025, The Warrnambool Art Gallery. Top: Alexandra Peters, Sunset Clause, 2025, acrylic, pigment and water-based ink with screen-print medium and paste on vinyl, 200 x 360 cm (3 panels, each 200 x 120 cm). Middle: Alexandra Peters, Foreign Line Extracation V (Overture), 2025, acrylic, vinyl, polyurethane ‘open cell’ foam, ductile iron, pine, steel, enamel, 27 x 460 x 38 cm. Below: Alexandra Peters, Polity (Latent State), 2025, acrylic with screen-print medium and paste on leatherette, pine, steel, enamel, 100 x 650 x 120 cm. Courtesy of The Warrnambool Art Gallery
