Curated by David Sequeira, Colour is Enough, presented at Art Projects Australia in Collingwood Yards, brought together recent bodies of work by Arts Project Australia artists Wendy Dawson, Ruth Howard, and Julian Martin within a broader discourse on Australian monochrome painting and sculpture. The exhibition examined monochrome as a mode of perception rather than a compositional hierarchy. In monochromatic works, the absence of a singular focal point resists linear modes of viewing; unlike reading text, there is no prescribed beginning or end. Instead, viewers are invited to engage with the work in its totality, encountering colour as an immersive and unified field.

Within this framework, meaning and experience emerge through the simultaneous apprehension of the entire work. While form remains present, it is secondary to colour’s capacity to sustain attention and generate affect. As the exhibition suggests, colour operates as both structure and content—sufficient in itself, yet open to varied interpretive possibilities.

The exhibition also included works by guest artists Eleanor Louise Butt, Nancy Constandelia, Renee Cosgrave, Rox De Luca, A.D.S. Donaldson, Mikala Dwyer, Louise Gresswell, Aaron Martin, Jackson McLaren, John Nixon, Ron Robertson-Swann, David Serisier, Madeline Simm, Lachlan Stonehouse, David Thomas, Sam George, Lisa Radford, Barbara Puruntatameri, and Hayden Stuart.

Images courtesy of Arts Project Australia and Kate Longley.