Past Exhibitions
Mono no aware - Solo Show 2008
Kin Iro
Kingyo
Hakucho 2008
Akako San
MONO NO AWARE
Mono no Aware continues Marcella Kaspar’s fascination with the ephemeral beauty of flowers. Opening on 18 September, her latest exhibition comprises flower paintings showcasing her characteristic obsession with the perfection and repetition of nature. However, for the first time the artist weaves fresh-faced geisha girls and Japanese landscapes among her usual tapestry of petals.
After numerous visits to Japan, the artist was struck by the Asian culture’s love affair with flowers as a reflection of the impermanent beauty of life. The exhibition title, Mono No Aware, is a phrase used (in Japanese culture) to express the connection between nature and its transient, inevitable passing. The philosophy perfectly mirrored the artist’s own interest in flowers as a metaphor for life itself: beautiful and luminous, yet fleeting.
Yo Yo Sunday
Yo-Yo Sunday
Artist's Family
Chatterbox
Between word and image
Moods, Impressions and Delicious Fears
Unshed Rain I
Another Horizon 2008
Poet in the world: Evening
Scratching the surface
Dancing on Water
Another Version
Beyond the Black Stump 2008
Field of magnestism 2008
Inlet Moruya 2008
Mapping
Kimberley Series 2 Image 6 2008
There Must Be Another Way 2008
Cloud of Reign 5pm 2008
Flags A and B 2008
Distant Time 2008
Orange Grove 4am 2008
Cloud of Reign 3pm 2008
The Eye of the Mind
Back to Black Amy
The Girl who loved a Wolf
Cowboy sax
Japanese Girls
Last One Standing
Master Microdasys Pallida A.K.A ‘Mickey mouse’ 2008
Mr Echinocactus Grusonii A.K.A 'Mother-in-Laws Cushion' 2008
Sir Lemaireocereus Pruinosis 2008
Still Life
Alizarin III 2008
Barok Red IV 2008
Cinnabar III 2008
Indian Yellow III 2008
Art Brisbane
A Measured Patience 2008
Edge
Phantases #2 2007
Country #2 2007
Tales of splendour & dust #5 2007
Edge 2007
A new exhibition by Gabrielle Courtenay uses the ephemeral beauty of the desert saltbush to confront environmental issues of our time.
‘In Edge Courtenay has transformed tiny skeletons of plants into bewitching forms of poetic beauty… Macabre as they are, these assemblages have poignancy to them, for like Courtenay’s paintings they are reminders of the fragility and ephemeral nature of life.” (Author and Curator Victoria Hammond)
Best known for her bold, minimal style, the new works in this exhibition reflect a dramatic shift in Gabrielle Courtenay‘s art practice. Edge is a series of 19 paintings and drawings of dark poetic forms. The works reach out to the viewer, confronting one with the environmental destruction done since colonisation and the need to take climate change seriously.
Paintings & Works on Paper
Maroubra Pool
The Glass House 2008
Watsons Bay 2008
Rainbow Street, Coogee 2008
The Bridge 2008
This will be Marina’s first solo exhibition with Charles Hewitt (April 24 - May 13 2008),
featuring the artist’s everyday environment in the Eastern Suburbs.
Circadian Rhythm
You light stars on fire 2008
I'll row my own thank you 2008
It's a beautiful day for a daydream 2008
Not a big one for crowds 2008
Shes always been the party kind 2008
Across the night 2008
First solo show for this exciting young artist at Charles Hewitt.
Paintings
Oyster Naturale 2007
Australian & Spanish Landscapes
West of Byron
Murrumbidgee
Misty Morning in The Goldfields
Broken Head, Byron
lostalgia
Sometimes I get to thinking of the past
The discerning young collector
Walking with arms hanging
If I were a dog
Aid to a memory
An exhibition of oils on canvas using mixed media based on themes of nostalgic maternal images of childhood lost.
Lostalgia is a haunting and poignant exhibition of 31 works created by Sophie Gralton.
Heavily themed with images of children, these arresting paintings are reminiscent of 17th century Dutch portraits of children. Sophie, however, has infused them with overtones of contemporary Australian childhood.
“My childhood in rural Victoria as the middle of five children was a noisy, vivid and the happy time filled with the overflowing hotch potch of family life in the country,” said Sophie.
“In today’s era of sleek minimalism, designer kitchens and crisply sterile modernism, I mourn for a time when children could remember what it was like to have milk bottles with foil tops, a baker that delivered to your home and the postie rode a bike. In my own childhood in the country our milk was delivered by horse and cart. That era has gone – and I want to capture now the childhood that my own children are experiencing by incorporating in my artwork, pieces of memorabilia of this current generation.”
Sophie’s works include mixed media such as old linoleum, manila tags, childrens’ story books and postage stamps, which are directly applied to the canvas.
“The faces of the children in my paintings are obscured as it was not the intention for them to be conventional portraits but rather fleeting impressions of youth and childhood memory, rather than of the individuals themselves,” said Sophie.
Sophie studied fashion and textile design at Sydney College of the Arts and worked for five years as a textile designer. She then studied at the National Arts School (Sydney) and graduated in 1996 with a degree in Fine Arts. This is the fifth solo exhibition for Sophie.
This exhibition is a continuation of themes I’ve explored before. Once again the old linoleum, manila tags, notes, children’s story books and old stamps are morphed with what seem to be traditional representations of children. This time they are directly applied to the canvas rather than being actually rendered.
The iconography for this exhibition was suggested by bourgeois 17th century Dutch portraits of children, however I’ve tried to give them a more contemporary Australian sensibility.
Their faces are obscured as I did not want them to be conventional portraits but rather fleeting impressions of youth and memory generally, rather than of the individuals themselves.
Sophie Gralton
2008
Soft Skin
Liquid S R N 080507
Soft Skin is an exhibition of sculptures and paintings that are sensuous, resolved and sexually charged. The works have highly finished surfaces, with textures that tease the viewer to touch. Tensions are created with beauty and taboo intermingled, creating works that are both provocative and humorous.
Malcolm Utley’s studies in visuals arts include a background in architecture and film making. He has worked extensively in Europe and Asia, including as an assistant to Tim Maguire in Paris. This exhibition is the impressive culmination of work developed whilst in residencies in China, Malaysia and Australia during the last 4 years.
Malcolm Utley’s previous work has been well received by reviewers and collectors. His work is exhibited in Australian and international galleries.
The Child Within
10 empty wine glasses
My work addresses the child in all of us. We are all born artists. Children reveal this in their picture making. We presume to teach the child how to make art, while in practice we can learn so much from the child.
In the tranquil reverie of my art making I find myself returning again and again to my childhood solitudes. And through this dreaming I marvel at how the long forgotten imaginings of these solitudes resurface in my adult-infused imagery.
My imagery references the recurrence of childhood in adulthood - vignettes filled with ‘personas’ big and little, human and animal, scary and friendly, playful and serious in their curious encounters with other strange creatures all born of childhood fantasies.
In a Fair Light
Best Burger
Birds & Trees
Flowerface
Flirt with me
Flying Saw