Fuzzy Logic, Tributary Projects, Canberra, Australia
5 February – 23 February 2020


Lani Shea-An & Shanti Shea An


For these two artists, the act of looking and re-looking remains a point of fascination. Both are concerned with the elusive qualities of what the materiality of paint offers us today, and therefore do not see themselves as working purely within the confines of abstraction or figuration. In Lani Shea-An’s recent works, the processes of painting are revealed to expose a multitude of material surfaces. Suggestive of topographical landscapes, cloud formations and architectural structures, these paintings-as-objects/objects-as-paintings gesture towards a layering up of ‘partial truths’, of scenes seen through foggy windows. In Shanti Shea An’s paintings, anonymous figures are depicted in a state of observation or absorption. Placed in settings which appear simultaneously abstract and familiar, the viewer is invited to see themselves within the painting, as much as they are offered an encounter with ‘the other’. Though predominantly representative, these works conceal as much as they reveal. Fuzzy Logic brings together the work of two artists who are both intrigued by the “fuzziness” of knowing.














Fragments, The Front Gallery, Canberra, Australia
April 2019


Mimi Fairall, Romany Fairall, Jess Higgins, Elle Neumann, Lani Shea-An, Shanti Shea An





Shanti Shea An, Franz West retrospective, 2019, oil on linen, 20 x 17 cm





Shanti Shea An, Continuations, 2019, oil on canvas, 20 x 17 cm
No newness, The Front Gallery, Canberra, Australia
16 May – 29 May 2017





Kevin McCloud’s Techniques of Decorating
2017
oil on panel
24 x 20 cm






Morandi says
2017
oil on panel
13 x 17 cm






A recurrent dream
2017
oil on panel
24 x 20 cm






Filmstock/longer
2017
oil on panel
20 x 24 cm






Open door
2017
oil on panel
13 x 17 cm









Ireland
2017
oil on panel
15 x 20 cm









Picturing (The Glass of Wine)
2017
oil on panel
15 x 20 cm





Voice like chocolate
2017
oil on panel
15 x 20 cm





No newness
2017
oil on panel
15 x 20 cm





We have to learn codes to look at anything
2017
oil on panel
13 x 17 cm





Pass words
2017
oil on panel
15 x 20 cm





Opportune
2017
oil on panel
24 x 20 cm





A book of patterns
2017
oil on panel
20 x 24 cm
Other Loves, Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka, Canberra, Australia
23 June – 3 July 2016





Laetitia’s boy
2016
oil on canvas
28 x 26 cm






Celine
2016
oil on canvas
28 x 26 cm






Boy bye
2016
oil on canvas
28 x 26 cm





One hand touching the other
2016
oil on canvas
28 x 26 cm






Within grasp
2016
oil on linen
31 x 30 cm







Harmony & dependency
2016
oil on canvas
80 x 70 cm