About the Gallery
Established in 1984, Charles Nodrum Gallery represents artists of national and international renown, and whose works are represented in major museum collections and regularly included in exhibitions worldwide.
The gallery's vibrant exhibition program embraces diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installtion & conceptually based work.
Director of the Gallery, Charles Nodrum, is an expert and qualified valuer for all periods of Australian art with the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, and has done a number of valuations of significant public, corporate and private collections for insurance, taxation and other purposes.
Charles Nodrum's personal interest and passion for the abstract and alternative art movements from the 1950s through to the 1970s, is reflected in the most comprehensive representation of artists and artworks of the period, which are profiled each year in themed group exhibitons.
The gallery also deals extensively in every period of Australian art. The breadth and variety of the gallery's dealing aims to satisfy discerning tastes of an established and a beginning collector - from Colonial to Contemporary
The gallery provides advise on collection management, regular valuations, and recommendations on conservation, restoration, framing and installation.
Staff
Charles Nodrum
Prior to opening the gallery in 1984, Charles Nodrum worked at the Joseph Brown Gallery (1971-5), managed Christie's Melbourne office (1975-8), and was a principal researcher for Alan McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art (1984 edition). He is a qualified valuer for all periods of Australian art with the Department of Communications, Technology and the Arts, which administers the Australian Governments Cultural Gifts and Cultural Bequests Program. He has done a number of valuations of significant public, corporate and private collections for insurance and other purposes.
Rebecca Guest
Rebecca joined the Charles Nodrum Gallery team in 2000 as Gallery Assistant, after eight years in several positions she is now the Gallery Manager. Prior to this Rebecca was Administrator at Horsham Regional Art Gallery and moved to Melbourne in 1999 to study a BA Fine Arts at Monash University. At the completion of her course she was employed at the university as Assistant Manager of the Faculty of Art & Design Gallery (2001-03). In 2004 Rebecca completed the Graduate Diploma of Museum Studies at Deakin University.