Morgan Stokes
Morgan Stokes — Purity Painting, 2025
DONE/UNDONE
Curated by Joseph Gardner
VISIONARIES 2025: Presenting the future of Australian art, craft and design through the lens of the country's most influential creatives.
These works are from Stokes’ Virgin series, a body of work that considers beginnings, thresholds and the conditions of first encounter. The works approach painting as sites of origin where surface, material and gesture are stripped back to their most elemental states. Stretched linen and raw supports are presented with a deliberate sense of exposure, resisting polish in favour of immediacy. This “virgin” state is not innocent but charged: it holds the tension between potential and restraint, matter and meaning. By foregrounding structure, labour and material, the works consider how art comes into being, how the viewer meets it, and how sensation might exist before interpretation.
DONE/UNDONE
14 November 2025 - 7 February 2026
Joseph Gardner is the 2025 Visionaries curator – presenting Craft's largest exhibition to date: showcasing 50+ artists and 400+ artworks.
Featuring artists across medium, scale and level of experience, they represent the exceptional level of rising talent in Australia.
DONE/UNDONE explores the creative process as a space of constant negotiation — a series of decisions to build, erase, repeat, or let be. It’s about that intuitive moment when a maker chooses to pause, to push further, or to dismantle entirely. These are the choices that define the rhythm of making — choices familiar to artists, designers, and creators across disciplines.
Joseph Gardner is the Style Editor at Vogue Living, with a decade of experience in publishing and styling, and the founder of Sydney-based gallery, Studio Gardner.
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Material: Rabbit skin glue, pigment, acrylic on stitched canvas, copper tacks
Dimensions: approx. 64 x 50 x 4cm
Please note: purchased works are to be collected at the conclusion of the exhibition (7 February 2026).
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