A smallish collection of contemporary Australian art inspired by music in a variety of ways. The most striking is Jensen Tjhung's installation, which takes up the entire back wall of the George Adams gallery, the installation being made up of a burned-out 19th century piano; the artist having, with a few of his friends, ceremoniously set fire to it one night (while listening to Johnny Cash, etc) and then done a series of large paintings about the experience. A decent concept, and sounds as if it would've been fun to be part of, but the art itself didn't much speak to me.
My favourites were Cathy Blanchflower's organically formalistic, repetitive 'oil on canvas' patterns, which struck me at the time as having a sort of shifting duck/rabbit effect, although the connection to music eluded me till I came across this, while looking for examples of her work online. Other noteworthy ones were Noel McKenna's cute bird/musical notes pieces, and the two brightly coloured oil paintings by Anne Wallace, one depicting Grant McLennan and Robert Forster (of Go-Betweens fame) and the other, "Showpeople", showing an androgynous figure sitting in an armchair, mirroring the pose of a starlet in a b&w photo in the background.
