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DEFINING THE SILENCE Melbourne artist Adam Nudelman draws upon a myriad of cultural influences and a devotion to the landscape tradition in the creation of this powerful exhibition of paintings. Defining the Silence is a landmark exhibition in a career that has so far been defined by extraordinary technical skill and an incisive intellect. Nudelman is undoubtedly a standout of his generation. He uses the language and tradition of landscape painting to layer imagery both viewed and implied, permeating every aspect of the picture plane. Through the artist’s delicate rendering of light and atmosphere, the viewer is drawn into neo-romantic and at times melancholic landscapes. One has the sense of witnessing, in silence, the dusk light as it settles over distant ranges or unyielding steel. Introducing an element of uncertainty through the placement of abandoned structures, Nudelman makes us aware not just of the land, but also of the implied communities that are its inhabitants. The discovery of his Polish Jewish heritage in his teens impacts directly upon his work, and is manifest in his ongoing investigation into identity. The duality of melancholy and hope, of beauty and awe are played out in the narrative of his pictorial dramas. Nudelman has a deep appreciation for the history of landscape painting. His work is informed by European born artists such as Jacob van Ruisdael, Casper David Friedrich, Eugene Von Guerard through to Australian contemporaries including John Brack and Rick Amor. Within the irresistible and beautiful tension of Nudelman’s work, four hundred years of landscape tradition has a truly contemporary champion. Ralph Hobbs 2008 |
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Media View
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TOP: Robert Hannaford, Bromeliad, Oil on Canvas, 122x152.5cm (*Available) NEXT: Mr Rob VIckery, President of the RAS NSW, opening the Sydney Royal Easter Show Exhibition at Art Equity alongside Raj Nanda on April 10th NEXT: Ralph Hobbs and Al Bailey, special guests on Sky Business program 'Your Money Your Call' hosted by Nina May, answering calls from viewers live to air. BOTTOM: Arts supporter, Leo Schofiled stands among proud artists from "Bring your community to life through art project" at Art Equity last month.
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robert hannaford joins art equityWe are delighted to announce that Robert (Alfie) Hannaford, one of Australia's leading realist painters has joined the Art Equity stable. In a professional career spanning 35 years, Hannaford is best known for his portrait painting. His sitters have included many of Australia's leaders in the fields of politics, arts, business, medicine, science and sport. His many public commissions include the 2001 Commemorative Sitting of the Commonwealth of Parliament. Hannaford has been an Archibald Prize finalist every year since 1991and was awarded the Peoples Choice Prize in 1991, 1996 and 1998. He was awarded the Doug Moran portrait prize in 1990. Visit our website for more information about Robert Hannaford. A solo exhibition of Hannaford's work will be on show at Art Equity in November.
join us FOR AN Education seminar in the gallery Wednesday, 30th AprilRalph Hobbs and Al Bailey will be conducting an informal education seminar at Art Equity on Wednesday 30th April. The recent Sky News interviews have attracted enormous interest from viewers and Art Equity clients prompting this inhouse discussion. To view the summary of topics and register your attendance, please CLICK HERE. sky business news interviews al bailey and Ralph HobbsArt Equity's Al Bailey and Ralph Hobbs were interviewed live on Sky Business News last Friday evening. Viewers emailed and phoned in with a broad range of art and investment related questions during the hour long discussion. Al and Ralph will be interviewed again on Your Money Your Call in the next 6-8 weeks. tune in to ralph hobbs on qantas inflight entertainment
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Top Movers
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Tim Storrier
Justin Tjungurrayi Corby
Corby is shown at right signing his first print edition - collagraphs titled Jtunti Budgerigar Dreaming. The print is based on a painting by the artist which was exhibited alongside seven other Western Desert Artists at G’Day USA Australia Week in New York in January. The painting (photographed below) and the edition of collagraphs are available exclusively to Art Equity clients. Adam Cullen
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George Gittoes
Gittoes first drawings of the girl were made in Western Sahara, Algeria in 1994. He visited a camp of Sahara Wei - nomadic people - who became Polisario soldiers fighting to maintain their traditional lands and culture. Excited by a foreigner with cameras, the children played around Gittoes as he was guided to the elders tents. Find out more about this artist >
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TOP: Tim Storrier, Embers, Collagraph,
Paper Size: 58 x 113cm
Edition size: 70, (*Available) NEXT: Justin Tjungurrayi Corby, Jtunti Budgerigar Dreaming, Collagraph, 68 x 90cm, Edition size: 50 NEXT: Justin Tjungurrayi Corby, Jtunti Budgerigar Dreaming, Acrylic on linen, 07JC150, 198x152cm BELOW LEFT: George Gittoes, Entanglement, Etching with aquatint, Image Size: 49 x 63.5cm, Edition Size: 30 |
Market Watch
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It was business as usual in the Australian art market this month as the first round auctions played out strongly against the background of continued financial market uncertainty.
Whilst the year-to-date secondary art market results are tracking ahead of the same time last year, it is clear that the hype and frenzied buying of 2007, (and the huge prices) have left the auction room – at least for now. The so called “correction” in the art market is in many senses welcomed – we are seeing a far more discerning clientele with a more conservative and controlled approach to buying and selling. Buyers are still willing to pay top dollar for premium quality but they are doing their due diligence. They are avoiding the antics of the auction room hype and not buying on a whim. We are seeing greater numbers of buyers and sellers of art looking outside the auction room for the best buys. Private treaty sales through galleries and auction houses are more and more popular as clients look to protect the freshness of top end works and lessen the risk of over-exposure. What is pleasing to see is that art investing has been gaining greater exposure as a diversification away from mainstream investments. This is evidenced by the amount of media exposure in the financial sector and is flowing into bottom line sales in the sale room and art galleries. Certainly the opportunity for investors to realise an income of up to 10% per annum, in addition to the potential capital appreciation of the artwork – is of enormous appeal. Click here to view an example. According to Christie’s Melbourne representative, Patricia Kontos, “[Worldwide] there are now more than four times as many fine-are buyers as during the 1980’s boom” (Emerging Markets, The Sunday Age, 20th April, 2008). Australia is no exception with increasing number of art galleries and auction houses and the rise of the internet to assist buyers in their research and education. Kontos believes that the breadth and depth of today’s art buyers has inspired a cautious confidence that the market can remain strong. The wrap up of the first round art auctions is positive. Overall, clearance rates have been very good, particularly in terms of value. Bonhams and Goodman last night grossed $4.09 million with clearance rates of 69% and 94% by value – a result that delighted Chairman, Tim Goodman. The highlights of the night included an Albert Tucker painting, Confronting, selling for $426,000 with buyers premium well above estimates of $250,000 to $350,000. A bronze sculpture by Joel Elenberg, Mask, sold for an impressive $384,000 against a high end estimate of $140,000.
TOP: Robert Hannaford, Apples in a plastic pack, Oil on canvas, 122x152.5cm (*Available) RIGHT: Adam Nudelman, Waiting for the fall, Oil on linen, 122 x 152cm (*Available)
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Sotheby’s auction early in the week totaled $8.76 million clearing around 64% of lots with healthy bidding for several good works. A painting by the late Ethel Carrick Fox sold for $1.008 million, just short of the record for a female artist at auction set last year by Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s Earth Creation 1995. Carrick Fox’s previous record was $458,750, set in 2005. An Ian Fairweather painting (one of 3 to sell), Beach at Manicahan, set a new record for the artist, selling for $960,000, well ahead of its top estimate of $600,000. A Jeffrey Smart oil on board sold for $420,000, against top estimates of $300,000. Also impressive were oils on board by Garry Shead and David Boyd. The Shead sold for $28,800 (est. $12,000 - $18,000) and Boyd's, The King, went for $50,400 against estimates of $28,000 to $35,000. Deutscher and Hacketts sale on April 16th sold nearly $6.6 million worth of art with impressive clearance rates of 78% by number and 84% by value. Records were set for four artists, John Ashton, Samuel Fullbrook, Charles Gilbert and Robert Juniper. All well exceeded estimates with John Ashton’s Victory Celebration, Martin Place, Sydney, 1919 selling for $99,000, almost triple its high end estimate of $35,000. Another highlight was John Perceval’s Lime Quarry, Lilydale which sold for $312,000. Also selling for $312,000 and $30,000 above its estimate was an 1893 painting by Tom Roberts. Joel Fine Art, while achieving disappointing clearance rates had some impressive individual sales. A standout lot was a classic Storrier fire painting Evening Embers which set a new record for the artist. It sold at the top end of its estimate for $225,000 including BP. In sum, the general sentiment is that Australian art can withstand the effects of last weeks reported drop in international art prices. Our firmly held view at Art Equity is to buy the best you can afford at any level. Keep an eye on mid-career artists with outstanding fundamentals and take a mid to long term view. Quality will hold its position.
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Art Equity Gallery Adam Nudelman 8 - 23 May Patrick Grieve 12 - 27 June Exhibition Openings To join our Exhibition mailing list, please click here and leave your name, address and email address. Educational Seminars If you are interested in attending a seminar at Art Equity Gallery, please click here. NSWArt Gallery of NSW Michael Riley: sights unseen Michael Riley: sights unseen reveals the prolific talents of a quiet observer whose photomedia continues to have a profound effect on Australia’s contemporary representation and comprehension of Indigenous Australia. 22 February - 27 April 2008 Charles Bayliss Renowned for his pioneering work in panoramic and landscape photography, Charles Bayliss is considered a leading figure in Australia’s photographic heritage. This isplay presents two substantial portfolios of his photographs that picturesquely document aspects of pastoral life and landscape along the Darling River and Riverina districts in the late 1880s. Until 25 May 2008
Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes 08 The Archibald Prize is one of Australia's oldest and most prestigious art awards. J.F. Archibald's primary aims were to foster portraiture, support artists and perpetuate the memory of great Australians.
Intimate Encounters Drawing from collections throughout Australia, both public and private, this exhibition of approximately 70 objects will survey the major schools of Indian painting, highlighting the rich interactions that inspired each tradition.
Bill Viola Bill Viola is internationally recognised as one of the most important artists working in video today. Fall into Paradise is part of a series inspired by Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde. 10 April - 27 July 2008
The most prolific and the most eclectic artists of the 20th century are unknown photographers. This exhibition draws from a number of collections of discarded amateur photographs. 10 April - 16 July 2008
This exhibition comprises a generous selection of Jan Senbergs' screenprints, presented within the context of his work as a whole, underlining their central importance to his evolution into a remarkable, idiosyncratic and admired draughtsman and painter. 5 April - 25 May 2008
Adam Cullen Lets Get Lost Adam Cullen is a unique figure in contemporary Australian art, a larger-than-life artist whose abrasive yet expressive paintings are a confronting and incisive view of contemporary life. His often satirical works are a form of social allegory, a cutting portrait of our national psyche caught in a suspended stage of development. THEY ARE MEDITATING: BARK PAINTINGS FROM THE MCA’S ARNOTT’S COLLECTION In June 1993 Arnott’s Biscuits Limited donated a rare and significant collection of bark paintings to the Museum of Contemporary Art. The collection comprises of 21 barks dating from the late 1960’s through tp the early 80’s by artists from Australia’s north. 6 March - 1 June 2008
FIONA HALL: FORCE FIELD This exhibition presents an in-depth survey of the work of Australian artist Fiona Hall from the 1970s to the present. Hall began her career in photography but has extended into diverse media including sculpture, installation and garden design. Her work is characterised by its use of 6 March - 1 June 2008
Southern Exposure Works from the Collection of the San Diego MCA The MCA San Diego and MCA Sydney have collaborated to present two unique exhibitions showcasing the collections of these leading contemporary art institutions. 20 March - 1 June 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australian Centre for Photography
Cetificate no. 000358/ Nuclear Devestation in the Former Soviet Union: Robert Knoth Gallery 1 & 2 Dutch photographer Robert Knoth has been visiting Chernobyl and other sites of nuclear devastation in the former Soviet Union since the early Nineties. The people in his photographs - many of them children and teenagers - are just like those in the rest of the world except that through no fault of their own they must grapple with the apocalyptic consequences of technological folly. 14 March - 26 April 2008 Izabela Pluta: Singularity Singularity is a series of three monumentally scaled images installed as wallpaper in the ACP foyer. The images seem familiar but they are disconnected from each other, a human presence is implied but never quite explained, and time appears suspended. The scale of the work intensifies the sense of expectation and the desire for a unifying narrative, but this always remains just beyond the viewer's reach. 14 March - 26 April 2008 ACP Workshop Term 1 Exhibition
The ACP Workshop proudly presents the first exhibition of student images for 2008. The ACP student exhibition showcases new and diverse photo media works by students participating in a wide array of courses from foundation Camera Craft to Photojournalism. Student shows are a celebration of the passion, exploration and achievement of photography students, providing an important space to share these images with each other and the community. 18 April - 26 April 2008 COMING... MAGDALENA BORS, MARK KIMBER, ANDREW MAMO, ALEXIA SINCLAIR, SIMON STRONG: Phantasia Vivid, complex and magical, the works in this exhibition abandon the traditional realm of the photographic - the real world - to conjure images of the fantastical. From Magdalena Bors' fairytale scenes to Alexia Sinclair's regal women of history and Simon Strong's dreamscapes; from Andrew Mamo's phantasmagoria to Mark Kimber's landscapes of the imagination, it is an odyssey of the fabulous. The result of highly skilled and detailed construction these enchanted scenes are either created as theatrical settings and then photograph or pieced together from hundreds of photographic fragments. 2 May - 7 June 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Historic Houses Trust Sydney's pubs: liquor, larrikins & the law Sydney’s pubs: vibrant, noisy, democratic, character-filled, sometimes controversial, always handy for a celebration or a quiet drink at the end of the day – the landscape of the city is unthinkable without them. More than mere commercial purveyors of alcohol, pubs define the pulse, personality and tempo of a city. 23 February – 2 November 2008 Sydney Now: Museum of Sydney This exhibition presents an extraordinary portrait of contemporary Sydney life, with over 100 images by 24 photographers made since the year 2000. They record moments from the everyday lives of ordinary citizens, rather than the news and celebrity more frequently observed in mainstream media Until 27 April 2008 ACTNational Gallery of Australia Australian Surrealism: The Agapitos Wilson collection Surrealism, the great revolutionary movement originating in France in the 1920s was to change the course of Australian art in the 1940s. A generation of Australian artists including James Gleeson, Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd and Max Dupain encountered Surrealism at a formative time in their careers, and its influence transformed their art forever. 16 February to 11 May 2008 14 March – 9 June 2008
Animated: Self Portraits Online Launched Friday 26 October 2007
National Portrait Gallery - Commonwealth Place National Youth Self Portrait Prize
VICNational Gallery of Victoria - International (NGVI)
Body Language: Contemporary Chinese Photography 14 March – 18 May 2008
Resonant Visions Until 17 August 2008
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Black in Fashion Mourning to Night (NGV International and Ian Potter Centre) 8 February – 24 August 2008 Sidney Nolan Sidney Nolan is the first retrospective exhibition to be mounted since the artist’s death in 1992 and includes a selection of his most important masterpieces. 22 February to 18 May 2008 Preseserving the past, enriching the future: Hugh Williamson's legacy A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition Although he moved at the highest levels of corporate life Hugh Williamson neither forgot his modest beginnings nor lost sight of the values of kindliness, integrity and honesty. The foundation he established has carried on these values and has been responsible for enormous service to the community. Hugh Williamson’s legacy has been immense and has touched the lives of many people. 14 March - 24 August 2008 VCE Top Arts 2007 27 March to 9 June 2008 SAArt Gallery of South Australia 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Anxiety over nature and the environment, cultural traditions and beliefs being eroded, our psychological and spiritual health under threat... 1 March - 4 May 2008
S.T. Gill 9 April - 29 June ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
This project for the CACSA is a version of the largest solo exhibition to date of Gladwell's video work presented by Artspace, Sydney in October-November 2007. Shaun Gladwell is one of Australia's most prominent younger artists, working extensively internationally in the medium of video. TASTasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Personal Perspectives : Artists and Their Portraits Personal Perspectives is an exhibition that reveals the sense of community within the Australian art world. Using paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from the TMAG collection, audiences can view work in new contexts along with other items not seen before. 18 April–29 June 2008
A poetic and powerful exhibition of 60 new works from one of Australia’s leading photographers. 26 April–22 June 2008
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Moray Patterns: an exhibition of woodcuts from Rhyll Plant Moray Patterns showcases a collection of wood engravings by Rhyll Plant based on naturalistic representations with a piscine theme. 5 April - 22 June 2008 ArtRage 2007 Since 1994, QVMAG has been presenting artworks created by students from Tasmanian schools and colleges who are submitting folios of work for the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE). 15 December 2007 - 13 April 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WAArt Gallery of Western Australia Prepare to be amazed. This exhibition features imagery of humans, animals and inanimate objects in taut arrangements that comment on the animism running through all things. Confronting, disturbing and not to be missed. Until 4th May 08 Year 12 Perspectives 'Year 12 Perspectives' is a dynamic and vibrant exhibition that features a selection of original works created by the state's metropolitan and regional TEE Art and Art and Design students. Circle of Friends 'Circle of friends' is a small Collection-plus exhibition of work by two Melbourne-based artists David Rosetzky and James Lynch. It will feature the newly purchased DVD projection by Rosetzky, Nothing like this, 2007, that explores the nuances of friendship amongst a group of twenty-somethings over a holiday weekend. The show will also include a new work by Rosetzky called No fear, a sound piece based on self-help tapes that involves subtle interaction between the work and its viewers. 22 March - 25 August 2008 COMING... COMING...PEEP: GLIMPSES OF THE LAST 4 DECADES FROM THE KERRY STOKES COLLECTION 30 May - 25 August 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fremantle Arts Centre Hayden Fowler’s practice reflects upon the separation between humanity and nature at a time when the natural is becoming increasingly difficult to define. Fowler worked collaboratively with a tattoo artist to have a pair of extinct birds, the New Zealand Huia, etched into his torso. This photomedia and sound installation allows the spectator to watch the full and complex tattoo procedure unfold as the Huia is resurrected on Fowler’s body. 5 April – 11 May
Chen Nong San Xia Chen Nong has created a sumptuous fable photographing the residents of the villages leveled by the Three Gorges Dam construction, clad as ‘terracotta warriors’. The images are taken using a bellows-style camera. Chen Nong was born in Fujian Province, China. He has a background in ceramics and is a self-trained photographer and painter. His photographic career was established in 2005 after his participation in the Rome Photography Festival. 5 April – 11 May Marian Drew Every Living Thing Marian Drew’s photography and video explores relationships across time, domesticity, history and landscape. Every Living Thing subjects road kill to the close-up lens and painterly light – recontextualising Australian wildlife in the European tradition of still life. 5 April – 11 May Christophe Bourguedieu The Passengers
5 April – 11 May ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Hatched National Graduate Show 11 April – 25 May 2008
NTMuseum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Exit Art showcases artwork produced by Year 12 visual art, craft and design students in the Northern Territory. Until 27 April 2008 Windows on Australian Art - Focus Inspire / Expire Until 20 July 2008
QLDQueensland Art Gallery Kenneth Macqueen Making it Modern Until 5 May 2008 Mountains and Streams: Chinese Paintings from the NGV Asian Collection ‘The wise find pleasure in water (streams); the virtuous find pleasure in mountain’The Analects of Confucius, c.6th–5th century BC. China’s magnificent scenery of mountains and streams has inspired its scholars, poets and painters for thousands of years. 19 March – 9 June 2008 Pierre Bismuth French artist Pierre Bismuth is popularly known for his role as co-author of the screenplay for the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for which he earned an Academy Award in 2005. 20 March – 22 June 2008 GoMA Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design (2008) The annual 'Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design' exhibition recognises and promotes outstanding achievements by art students from state and non-state secondary schools throughout Queensland, including regional and remote communities. 20 March – 15 June 2008 GoMA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Museum of Brisbane
Annie Hogan: A survey 4 April - 6th June 2008 Pamela Mei-Leng See: Intervention 11 April - 8th June 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QLD Centre for Photography
Shoot Low! They are riding Shetlands 29 March - 27 April 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Institute of Modern Art Jacky Redgate Visions From Her Bed Ross Gibson once described Jacky Redgate's work as 'a sophisticated nervy meditation on the intricacies of perception, intuition, cognition and communication'. A key figure in Australian art since the mid 1980s, Redgate made her name as a photographer, with such classic series as Photographer Unknown, Naar Het Schilder-BoeckWork-To-Rule, but also works in sculpture and installation. 15 March - 26 April Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty Commonly regarded as American sculptor Robert Smithson’s greatest work, Spiral Jetty (1970) is an earthwork built of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, earth and water on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point, Utah. It forms a 1500-foot long and 15-foot wide counterclockwise coil jutting from the shore of the lake. Simon Obarzanek: 30 Faces 11 April — 11 May COMING... Daniel Crooks and Jae Hoon Lee This exhibition juxtaposes two artists exploring digital imaging. Melbourne’s Daniel Crooks is known for his 'time slice' videos, which draw on the precedents of cubism and the chronophotography of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge. 3 May — 21 June |
TOP: Patrick Grieve, Coastal Series, Oil on linen, 120 x 120cm (*Available) MIDDLE: Guest speaker, Jeff Makin entertains the crowd with Brenda Colahan at a lunch in the gallery during the Sydney Royal Easter Show Exhibition BOTTOM: RAS President Rob Vickery and Julian Ashton Art School Principal, Paul Delprat listen to Jeff Makin at the Royal Easter Show lunch in the gallery
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