The exhi­bi­tion Cameo Appear­ance at Mary New­ton Gallery brings togeth­er eight artists work­ing in the area of the por­trait — Tony Bond, Gavin Hur­ley, Anna-Marie O’Brien, Gary Free­man­tle, Tan­ja Nola, Octavia Cook, Are­ta Wilkin­son and David Cauchi.

And then my magical art powers failed me, 2007 by David Cauchi

And then my mag­i­cal art pow­ers failed me, 2007 by David Cauchi

Works in the exhi­bi­tion range from the jew­ellery-based prac­tice of Are­ta Wilkin­son and Octavia Cook through to the paint­ed por­traits by Gavin Hur­ley (of Syd­ney Parkin­son), Anna-Marie O’Brien (of Olga Kor­but) and Gary Free­man­tle, to the self-por­traits by David Cauchi, and Tony Bond — which are a set of ceram­ic teeth. Tan­ja Nola show is a set of pho­to­graph­ic psy­cho­log­i­cal por­traits.