SNO 176

SNO 176 

Please join us on Wednesday May 8 to celebrate this wonderful exhibition. The exhibition will be opened by a sound-text performance from MP Hopkins. MP Hopkins is an artist working on Wangal land in Sydney, Australia who makes audio, text, and film works. The evening will include light refreshments and a private viewing of Artbank’s collection.  Artbank Open encourages everyone to get curious, get involved and get up close to incredible artworks by some of the most exciting Australian contemporary artists. Challenge, excite, inspire and surprise yourself as you create your own journey through this uniquely Australian art collection. 

Artbank Open encourages everyone to get curious, get involved and get up close to incredible artworks by some of the most exciting Australian contemporary artists. Challenge, excite, inspire and surprise yourself as you create your own journey through this uniquely Australian art collection. 

SNO (Sydney Non Objective) has been at the forefront of critical practice in the visual arts since 2005. With a particular focus on the abstract, the minimal, concrete poetry and the many hybrid forms of “non-objectivity” including sound and new media, the artists have worked at the cutting edge of Australian and International art.

Part gallery, part artist-run initiative, part research centre, SNO has been a nodal point for artists to meet, discuss, exhibit and publish. Over 400 artists, both Australian and International, have been a part of SNO (in one way or other) over the years. It has been a supportive and community-based project from the beginning.

Artbank has been a proud supporter of many artists in this flexible group. SNO always has, as part of their approach, an interest in emerging and new artists (which is shared ground with Artbank). SNO has also revisited historic moments of Australian abstraction, of which Artbank also developed a good holding.

The most provocative assertion SNO makes about the non-objective work being made is, far from a borrowed International style, the artists explore a particular Australian and regional vision of non- objective art “without losing their identity or authenticity.” This exhibition celebrates the strength of these artists.