Kym Bonython;
BHP Collection, Melbourne, c. 1970 to 1988;
Private Collection, Melbourne, since then
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Michael Johnson
Frontal, 1968
Catalogue number: 1
acrylic on canvas
198.00 x 172.00
signed on reverse
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Probably Michael Johnson, Gallery A, Sydney, October – November, 1968;
Art in BHP House, nd (c. 1975);
An Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Works of Art from BHP House, Myer Mural Hall, 23 August - 10 September, 1976, no. 23;
Bendigo Art Gallery, on loan 1995-2002;
Central Street Live, Penrith Regional Art Gallery and Macquarie University, November 2002 - May 2003;
Fresh Fields: Charles Nodrum Collection, touring Ballarat Fine Art Gallery & Benalla Art Gallery, February – June, 2004, and Macquarie University, Sydney, November – December, 2004
Literature & references:
Michael Johnson - see both Retrospective Exhibition catalogues - (Melbourne University and AGNSW) for related Frontal paintings; and Art & Australia, Vol 6, No 3, 1968, & Vol 6, No 4, 1969, for two Gallery A advertisements for Frontal Red, illus. and Daniel Thomas and Mervyn Horton, Present Day Art in Australia, Ure Smith, 1969, p 105, also for Frontal Red; and Barry Pearce, Michael Johnson, Craftsman House, 2004, p 71 for text on the Frontal works.
Exhibition Catalogue
Solid Blue Silence
Virginia Coventry
1969
acrylic on cotton duck, in original aluminium frame, 106.50 x 244.00
SOLD
Untitled
Margaret Worth
1968
SPE on two shaped marine plywood panels, 122.00 x 30.00 x 30.00
SOLD
Unspecified lengths
Paul Partos
1969
acrylic on nylon organza on aluminium foil on board, 30.50 x 23.00
Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.