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words, words, words...

07 July - 30 July, 2016

...letters, numbers, hieroglyphs & pictograms. A group exhibition of text-based works.
  • Introduction by Charles Nodrum

    IntroductionThis exhibition was pencilled in years ago but repeatedly delayed. To do justice to the subject dozens of artists had to be added, but as the list lengthened, the exhibition receded ever further into the future. So what we have now might be called "a show in progress" with some ground covered ... Read More

  • Exhibition Essay by Alex Selenitsch

    Exhibition Essay by Alex SelenitschPre-modern painters had a tool-box of iconic objects to use: instruments, flowers, animals, clothes, jewels and so on. All had associated meanings which would be recognised by viewers, or at the very least, easily explained. These off-the-shelf signs and symbols, these ‘clouds of knowing’, functioned like alanguage, but faded in the 19th ... Read More

Exhibition Catalogue

New Litany

Imants Tillers

1999

acrylic and gouache on six canvas boards, 75.50 x 70.50

SOLD

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Reflexorama

Jo Felber

2011

graphite on plywood; photographic etching; screenprinting on stainless steel; oil on plywood; screen-printing; liquid light photography; enamel on copper, B/W photography collage, digital photography on metallic paper, 122.00 x 720.00

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My cross to bear

Gareth Sansom

1985

oil, alkyd resin, enamel & wax emulsion on canvas, 182.00 x 244.00

SOLD

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Line out

Ron Robertson-Swann

1975

rusted steel sculpture, 31.00 x 70.50 x 31.00

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Mutual Needs

John Bartlett

1988

acrylic on canvas, 122.00 x 153.00

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Scribble Scribble

Mike Brown

1972

acrylic on canvas, 109.00 x 110.00

SOLD

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Negative stance, (things I don’t understand) Heidegger

Richard Grayson

2000

acrylic on canvas, 183.00 x 137.00

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Untitled (Propositional calculus)

Edwin Tanner

c. 1965

pastel on paper, 74.00 x 53.00

SOLD

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(Cohen)

Harold Herbert

c. 1940

pencil on paper, 36.00 x 27.00

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and Then

Sam Schoenbaum

1985

acrylic on three canvases, 25 x 183.5cm each, 100.00 x 183.00

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Words

Martin Sharp

c. 1970

collage on paper on card, 75.50 x 55.00

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2016: Dark Arts

Sadie Chandler

2016

papier mache; acrylic paint; oil pastel on paper; vintage frames;
dimensions variable

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Sticks - Part II - Journey to Self

Gunther Deix

17 leaves of etchings and lithographs, folio, bound in hand-coloured and collaged cloth boards, limited edition of 23, published by Heart Press, Mittagong, 1991., 40.00 x 30.00

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Sticks

Gunther Deix

12 leaves of etchings and lithographs, folio, bound in recycled hand-made card, with collaged twigs, leaves and seeds, and timber spine; no 5 of a limited edition of 11, published by Heart Press, Mittagong, 1990, 40.00 x 30.00

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On first sight of the sea

Lynne Boyd

2015

oil and collage on linen, 36.00 x 36.00

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Now the Names of the Twelve are These

Ian Hamilton Finlay

1987

limited edition print, 63.50 x 31.50

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Tempus Fugit

Frank Hinder

1947

diptych: left panel - ink on card; right panel - oil on panel, with collaged sky, marble eye and Westclox pocket wash, 21.50 x 12.00

SOLD

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A Gardener at Midnight: The Sick Rose

Kristin Headlam

1995

etching on paper, trial proof, 24.00 x 21.00

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I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles...

James Gleeson

1976

ink wash and collage on paper, 69.00 x 51.00

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J. G. Poem 1938, rocketing rim-girt…

James Gleeson

1976

ink wash, pen and ink and collage on paper, 74.00 x 55.00

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Saint Sebastian

Matthys Gerber

1981

oil and pastel on paper on canvas, 162.00 x 99.00

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Saint Sebastian

Matthys Gerber

1981

pastel on paper on canvas, 165.00 x 100.00

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Saint Sebastian

Matthys Gerber

1981

pastel on paper on canvas, 162.00 x 99.00

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Happy Birthday to you

Tony Coleing

1976

7-colour silkscreen with hand colouring on paper, edition 8/20, 91.00 x 58.00

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COD

Tony Coleing

1979

lithograph in green ink on paper, edition 9/20, 30.50 x 30.50

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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.