FLINDERS LANE GALLERY Presents: Kim Anderson, Stuart McLachlan, Simon Cardwell
FLG brings together two distinct Australian practices in a focused, intimate dialogue: the graphite and ink drawings of Kim Anderson, and the paper sculptures and large-scale photography of Stuart McLachlan and Simon Cardwell.
Venue
Booth E01, Carriageworks
Everleigh, Sydney, Australia
on view
Sep 1 — Sep 6
Booth E01, Carriageworks · Everleigh, Sydney, Australia
Call & Response, by FLINDERS LANE GALLERY
FLG brings together two distinct Australian practices in a focused, intimate dialogue: the graphite and ink drawings of Kim Anderson, and the paper sculptures and large-scale photography of Stuart McLachlan and Simon Cardwell. Both bodies of work are rooted in ecological grief, yet they approach it from opposite poles. A call and response to our ongoing ecological crisis, Anderson moves inward, into the body and the psyche, rendering the human experience of planetary crisis as something felt in muscle and nerve. McLachlan and Cardwell move outward, into the shared environment and the dwindling number of species that inhabit it, asking whether the endings we have authored might yet be rewritten. Together they form a call and response: the body undone by the world it loves, and the world being slowly, carefully rebuilt. The exhibition offers no resolution. It holds two truths at once, that we are implicated in what is being lost, and that we are also capable of what is required to return it.
Stuart McLachlan
Continuum
2026
medium
Watercolour Paper, acrylic paint, glue, metal rods
dimensions
30 x 240 x 155 cm
price
AUD 35,000
Artworks
23
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FLINDERS LANE GALLERY
Founded in 1989, Flinders Lane Gallery is one of Australia's longest-running contemporary commercial galleries. For over 35 years we have worked with Australian artists at every stage of their careers, from early-career artists showing for the first time to established figures with works in public and private collections around the world. Since its inception, FLG has been committed to presenting ambitious contemporary art. The gallery's program reflects a shared dedication to conceptual rigour, technical excellence and creative sensitivity, bringing together artists whose practices engage thoughtfully with the world around them.
FLINDERS LANE GALLERY Presents: Kim Anderson, Stuart McLachlan, Simon Cardwell
Ascension, 2026
Arches watercolour rag paper, card, wood, metal rod, varnish, sandstone and glue
184 x 85 x 40 cm
AUD 28,000
An F-4 Phantom, hand-cut in paper, balanced nose-down on a block of sandstone. Two gladiolus stems rise from the twin exhausts. Swallows are cut clean through both wings and left standing proud of the surface. The plane dissolves into a murmuration. Gladiolus comes from the Latin gladius: sword. The Greeks called it xiphium, from xiphos, also sword. Romans threw them to victorious gladiators and grew them as a symbol of strength, in part because the plant takes hold in ground where little else will. In purple they stand for nobility, grace and moral integrity. Artist statement: Ascension reflects on the continuation of the natural world. Objects like jets, built for war at a cost of millions each, eventually end up in aircraft graveyards in the middle of deserts. Used worldwide by many countries, they are weapons of expansion and destruction. In time these prized objects become obsolete. This is when nature, as it always does, reclaims them, turning their husks into sanctuaries for the living, rising out of a use no longer required.