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
Desert Bloom, 2026
Arches watercolour rag paper, card, wood, sand, acrylic paint, sandstone and glue
42 x 117 x 42 cm
AUD 12,500
Extinction Denied is a collaboration between paper sculptor Stuart McLachlan and photographer Simon Cardwell. McLachlan hand-cuts and sculpts white paper animals and architectures, moon gates, bamboo scaffolds and velvet-rope barriers, then stages them inside co-created dioramas that Cardwell photographs at cinematic scale. Up close the fragile paper and visible set-building clearly indicate these are manually constructed artworks. At a distance Cardwell’s photography translates it into a luminous, believable world that reads like a documentary scene from a future we might still choose. Across this new series McLachlan and Cardwell posit the argument that species pushed to the brink can be returned through sustained human care. Three oryx move across red desert under a wide, clear sky, one of them caught mid-leap through a bamboo scaffold. The scaffold is the artists’ conceptual argument in symbolism; a temporary structure lashed together by hand to hold something up while it is rebuilt. Of the three animals in this series the Arabian oryx came closest to being lost. It was declared extinct in the wild in 1972, hunted out with rifles and motor vehicles, and survived only because Operation Oryx had taken a handful of animals into captivity in the 1960s. The first deliberate releases were made into Oman’s Jiddat al-Harasis in 1982, from stock bred at Phoenix Zoo. In 2011, forty years after the species vanished from the wild, the IUCN reclassified it from Extinct in the Wild to Vulnerable. Around 1,220 now live wild across six countries. McLachlan and Cardwell’s work honours this rejuvenation, and turns artifice into attention and understanding, which the artists hope becomes further action. Artwork comes with acrylic display case.