MOORE CONTEMPORARY is delighted to participate in the sixth edition of Spring 1883 at The Establishment Hotel Sydney. In a grouping entitled The Real and The Imagined, the work of five artists has been selected for showcasing within the characteristics of a hotel room.

Works presented at Spring 1883 reflect the diverse practices of artists ABDUL-RAHMAN ABDULLAH, DAN McCABE, KATE McMILLAN, MARITA FRASER and PILAR MATA DUPONT, yet each in distinct ways amplifies our perception of what is real, imagined, desired or perhaps mythologised. Spanning video, photography, painting, textile and wood, this project offers more than rich material variances. Conceptually, several works draw upon or interrogate personal and cultural narrative through literal imagery, while others reside more within the lineage of non-objective, intuitive exploration. Mata Dupont and McCabe respond to residencies in Korea and Finland respectively with saturated and heightened articulation. Abdullah continues to imbue his carved sculpture with poetic evocations that transcend representation. McMillan invests her work with layers that blur real and fictional histories, and Fraser creates an arresting dialogue between form and surface that is both diagrammatic and elusive.