Sale couple Nadine Lineham and Frank Mesaric have each led long and prodigious careers as artists, in which their sharing of ideas and influences in a single studio space has produced fascinating results.

Both predominately painters, who work occasionally in other materials, Nadine and Frank’s artworks appear, at times, to be polar opposites, while at others they coalesce in strange patterns and echoes.

It is this dynamic tension between the very individual art practices of Nadine Lineham and Frank Mesaric, brought together by virtue of their shared lives and studio arrangements, that gives this exhibition of recent works its unpredictable edge.

While Frank has established a reputation as Gippsland’s preeminent painter of darkness, Nadine explores abstract spaces both ambiguous and eerily familiar. Both, however, are drawn to the shadows and flickering light that illuminates that condition of the gothic that Gippsland claims as its own—a double vision where nothing is as it seems.