Biennial of Reductive Art

From the Curator

The Sydney exhibition of the 4th Australian Biennale of Reductive Art (ABORA 4), presented at Articulate project space, brings together artists whose practices engage with reductive and non-objective strategies as modes of critical and material inquiry.

While independently curated, the exhibition contributes to a broader national and international dialogue on the evolving language of abstraction and its place within contemporary visual culture.

Informed by the legacies of post-conceptual and post-formalist traditions, the works explore form as process, reduction as resistance, and abstraction as a space of perceptual and material experimentation. Rather than pursuing detachment or purity, the artists embrace ambiguity, resonance and the complexity of lived experience.

The exhibition highlights the strength of Sydney-based practices, alongside a selection of interstate and international artists, whose work interrogates form, colour, surface, structure, repetition and spatial tension.

Working across painting, sculpture, installation, sound, video and performance, these artists challenge the perceived neutrality of reductive art. Their practices reframe it as an active, responsive mode, attuned to presence, environment and the shifting thresholds between gesture and restraint.

Articulate project space, long committed to spatial and experimental practice, offers an ideal context for this inquiry. Here, reduction becomes a way to focus, sharpening attention, slowing perception and opening space for uncertainty. Works unfold through quiet insistence, shifting our engagement from looking to sensing, from object to condition.

This exhibition proposes reductive and non-objective approaches as essential and evolving modes of visual and critical engagement. These practices open a space for reflection, tension and possibility. In a world saturated with image and noise, they invite us to consider what remains, what endures, and what might emerge when less becomes more.

— Beata Geyer

Artist List

Aaron Martin
Angharad Evans
Anke Stäcker
Annelies Jahn
Anya Pesce
Beata Geyer
Belinda Yee
Billy Gruner
Chantal Grech
Chris Packer
Christine Dean
Deb Covell
Don Voisine
Elizabeth Day
Elizabeth Rankin
Elke Wohlfahrt
Gary Warner
Giles Ryder
Isobel Johnston
Jamie Jude Smith
Jan Handel
Kate Galea
Kate Mackay
Kath O’Donnell
Kendal Heyes
Kenneth Lambert
Kyle Jenkins
Laurence Kimmel
Lisa Jones
Lisa Pang
Liz Shreeve
Louise Blyton
Louise P Sloane
Luna Gui
Lynne Eastaway
Margaret Roberts
Mark Titmarsh
Marlene Sarroff
Neerja Chandna Peters
Nicole Ellis
Penny Coss
Peter de Lorenzo
Phong Le
Pia Larsen
Rolande Souliere
Sandra Curry
Sarah Fitzgerald
Sarah Keighery
Sarah Robson
Sue Callanan
Susan Andrews
Susan Shutan
Tarn McLean
Tilman Hoepfl
Tom Loveday
Will Cooke
Yvette Hamilton