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Darcey Bella Arnold & Simon McGlinn
Untitled, 2023

Untitled

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Biro, inkjet and Letraset; on archival paper.
29.7 × 42.0cm (sheet)
 

Since 2023, Darcey Bella Arnold and Simon McGlinn sustained a collaborative drawing practice. Living and working together as partners, Arnold and McGlinn developed a continued, dialogic approach to drawing, whereby McGlinn initiates each composition using biro and/or collage elements, to which Arnold responds with pencil and Letraset.

This reciprocal process has evolved into a quotidian artistic exchange, marked by an intuitive sensitivity to composition, surface and mark-making. Embedded in each work with layered references and a shared visual language that oscillates between the spontaneous and the deliberate. Through this co-authored methodology, the artists explore the possibilities of drawing as both conversation and convergence.

 
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Darcey Bella Arnold (b.1986) works between painting, sculpture and drawing in a research-based practice that anatomises language to annotate its necessity, fallibility and creative potential.

Arnold received her BFA at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2007, and Honours from Monash University, Melbourne in 2009. Arnold’s work has been shown in institutions and museums across Australia including the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; UNSW Galleries, Sydney; Geelong Gallery, Geelong; La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia.

Simon McGlinn (b. 1985) has been exhibiting his work for over a decade, both in Australia and internationally. Through his collaborative partnership with artists Gavin Bell and Jarrah de Kuijer, they have exhibited in New Zealand, the United States, Italy, France, Japan, and Indonesia. From 2017 to 2019, they were Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artists, and in 2022, they were awarded the Stonehouse-Glasshouse Residency in Chenaud, France.

In 2024, McGlinn presented Bones from the Evening Meal an exhibition at Monash University Faculty Gallery, as part of his Doctorate in Fine Art (Philosophy) at Monash University. He is a sessional lecturer in the VCA Painting Department at the
University of Melbourne.

 
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