Art Wall: Kerrie Poliness
SAM Art Wall commission by Kerrie Poliness
From 5 April 2025
Melbourne-based contemporary artist Kerrie Poliness brings her abstract geometric practice to the SAM Furphy Family Art Wall for a site-specific installation that will be complemented by a temporary line-making artwork that will flow down the SAM precinct’s Orchard Hill.
The Orchard Hill line drawing will be a collaborative, participatory artwork, presented in partnership with the Shepparton Festival on 5 April 2025.
Images: Kerrie Poliness, Whoosh version 5 (with magenta and green), 2024, Hayden's Gallery, Melbourne, 2024. Photo: Hayden Stewart.
About the artist:
Kerrie Poliness (b. 1962 Melbourne, Australia) is a Melbourne-based artist whose systematic, collaborative, and often open-ended process produces paintings, drawings, sculptures and films inflected with histories of conceptual and abstract art. Poliness is associated with an influential group of artists who reiterated the relevance of geometric abstraction in Melbourne in the late 1980s and 90s, through the innovative artist-run space Store 5 which she co-founded.
Poliness exhibited extensively across Australia and internationally, including HOTA, Gold Coast, 2018; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2017; G‑MK, Zagreb, 2014; and Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013.
She has developed a number of site-specific public artworks including Stream, Green Square, Zetland, Sydney, 2022; Parliament Steps Walking Drawing, Melbourne, 2021; Field Drawing #1, Maywar Green, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2014; and Wave Drawings, Highpoint Shopping Centre, Melbourne (2013).
Her work is held in a number of public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, and Dowse Museum, Lower Hutt. Kerrie Poliness is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery.
