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Callum Morton’s newest public artwork, ‘City Lights’, launches on the back façade of the new Ace Hotel in Foy Lane, Surry Hills, Sydney.

A cluster of 44 varied, empty light boxes, ‘City Lights’ forms a dense mass of black steel at heights that draws the eye ever upwards. Each box references a particular part of the city discovered by Morton during a series of walks throughout 2019. Tight groupings of boxes light in sequence, up and down the lane, creating abstracted, illuminated silhouettes – a drawing that becomes increasing illegible the more lights are added to the succession.

Noting reference in the work’s title, Morton said: ” The title ‘City Lights ‘is taken from Charlie Chaplin’s 1932 film of the same name, where The Tramp falls in love with a girl who is visually impaired and tries to help her restore her sight. Referring on the one hand to the mobile and marginal wanderings of The Tramp, but equally to the temporary blindness one can feel when lost inside the chaos of the contemporary city at the street level, the works legion of empty signs and light fragments, echoes this blindness.”

This work was produced in collaboration with Monash Art Projects, curated by Amanda Sharrad and commissioned by the Golden Age Group for the Ace Hotel by Bates Smart architects.

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CAL­LUM MOR­TON: CITY LIGHTS

MIKE PARR | SUN­SET CLAWS | PART 1

LAU­REN BRIN­CAT | BENEATH THE SUR­FACE, BEHIND THE SCENE

MUT­LU ÇERKEZ | AUDI­TIONS FOR AN UNWRIT­TEN OPERA

ANGEL­I­CA MESI­TI | TREMBLEMENT

AMRI­TA HEPI | BANKSIA, RRR

The vast and uncom­pro­mis­ing prac­tice of Mike Parr assumes mul­ti­ple forms through a con­fla­tion of draw­ing, print­mak­ing, sculp­ture and performance.

DAVID NOO­NAN | VIVI­ENNE SHARK LEWITT | JEN­NY WAT­SON | Thin Skin

DAVID NOO­NAN | VIVI­ENNE SHARK LeWITT | JEN­NY WATSON

ROSE NOLAN | CEN­TRAL STATION

Night­shifts at Bux­ton Contemporary

Su san Cohn | Pieces of Peace | Per­for­mances | NGV Mel­bourne Design Week

Re-Invent­ing Piet. Mon­dri­an and the Con­se­quences | Joseph Kosuth

The Inti­mate Resis­tance: Mike Par­r’s Per­for­mance Work 1971 — 2023 | Museo de Arte Mod­er­no de Bogotá & Fon­dazione Morra

Chi­haru Shio­ta | Ham­mer Museum

Portrait23 | Nation­al Por­trait Gallery

STIEG PERS­SON, EMI­LY FLOYD: LIV­ING TOGETHER

JAN NEL­SON, JOHN NIXON & VIVI­ENNE SHARK LEWITT: MEL­BOURNE NOW

EMI­LY FLOYD: KNOWL­EDGE POWER

EMI­LY FLOYD: BUT­TER­FLY KITES

JOHN NIXON: MONOCHROME/PIANO 1992

DANIEL CROOKS: BOUND­ARY CONDITIONS

ROSE NOLAN: HAL­LAM STATION

ANGEL­I­CA MESI­TI: STILL LIFE

AMRI­TA HEPI: THE ANGUIL­LA PURSUIT

CALLUM MORTON: CITY LIGHTS

MIKE PARR | SUNSET CLAWS | PART 1

LAUREN BRINCAT | BENEATH THE SURFACE, BEHIND THE SCENE

MUTLU ÇERKEZ | AUDITIONS FOR AN UNWRITTEN OPERA

ANGELICA MESITI | TREMBLEMENT

AMRITA HEPI | BANKSIA, RRR

The vast and uncompromising practice of Mike Parr assumes multiple forms through a conflation of drawing, printmaking, sculpture and performance.

DAVID NOONAN | VIVIENNE SHARK LEWITT | JENNY WATSON | Thin Skin

DAVID NOONAN | VIVIENNE SHARK LeWITT | JENNY WATSON

ROSE NOLAN | CENTRAL STATION

Nightshifts at Buxton Contemporary

Su san Cohn | Pieces of Peace | Performances | NGV Melbourne Design Week

Re-Inventing Piet. Mondrian and the Consequences | Joseph Kosuth

The Intimate Resistance: Mike Parr’s Performance Work 1971 — 2023 | Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá & Fondazione Morra

Chiharu Shiota | Hammer Museum

Portrait23 | National Portrait Gallery

STIEG PERSSON, EMILY FLOYD: LIVING TOGETHER

JAN NELSON, JOHN NIXON & VIVIENNE SHARK LEWITT: MELBOURNE NOW

EMILY FLOYD: KNOWLEDGE POWER

EMILY FLOYD: BUTTERFLY KITES

DANIEL CROOKS: BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

ROSE NOLAN: HALLAM STATION

ANGELICA MESITI: STILL LIFE

AMRITA HEPI: THE ANGUILLA PURSUIT