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Charles Nodrum Gallery

Locality: Richmond, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9427 0140

Address: 267 Church St 3121 Richmond, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au

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25.01.2022 This small display of works by Godfrey Miller come from the Estate of a perceptive New South Wales collector and was assembled between 2004 and 2015 (all from this gallery and most from the Estate of John Henshaw). All the oils are typical of the works that were still in progress at the time of the artists death, each offering an insight into the direction he seemingly had in mind. He could work for years on a canvas which he built up by slow and steady accretion. As an arti...st primarily focussed on structure, these works show four differing approaches: they vary from a plethora of carefully calculated small marks (no. 4) to a swift and intuitive scribble of bolder forms which in this case, give a clear idea of the arches he saw appearing between trees (no. 6) These 9 works will be available for viewing at the gallery by appointment only (again) till 1 August. Well do everything we can to accommodate communication, condition reporting, and purchases over email and by phone. Please dont hesitate to get in touch to discuss anything further. Courage to all our greater Melbourne clients as we re-enter lockdown. See more

24.01.2022 DAVID RANKIN: Field of Vision 5 - 26 October, 2019 Please join us for opening drinks with the Artist on Saturday 5th October, 4-6pm Exhibition Catalogue online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exh/david-rankin-2/

24.01.2022 On 1st May 1980, Ron Robertson-Swann’s Vault made its way to Melbourne’s new City Square. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the sculpture’s installation. Almost immediately after its installation, the backlash against Vault was rife. Journalists, cartoonists, and columnists, among others, surged to the media with letters of opposition and awe, to antagonize and support the luminous work, nicknamed the ‘Yellow Peril’. Few artworks have been involved in such a conflict ...indeed, such a culturally and morally divisive controversy hadn’t been seen since the Dobell affair in the 40s or the Blake Prize awarded to Rapotec’s Meditating on Good Friday in the 60s - and certainly in Australia no other public work has been the centre of such zealous uproar. Eventually, about a year later, the work was removed in the dead of night and re-located to a part of the city few people frequented. Aesthetics aside, this brought up issues of Artists’ moral rights (the work was site-specific and its removal potentially undermined its integrity) and of Artists’ legal rights (as to whether the removal constituted a breach of contract and caused damage to the artist’s reputation). These are issues that have achieved greater attention in the years since and form an important part of Vault’s legacy. Forty years down the track, Vault has emerged not just as one of Melbourne’s icons but arguably as the best known public sculpture in Australia. The now eponymous ‘Swann yellow’ and the tensely balanced diagonals of its hard-edge geometry have been re-called, borrowed and extended by architects and designers across Australia. Robertson-Swann, who celebrates his 80th birthday next year, muses that all artists have a living dream of influencing society beyond their work and, through Vault, the realisation of his dream continues on. As Geoffrey Wallis wrote, the row over Vault gave birth to an awareness of the pitfalls, challenges and rewards that new art can bring, and acted as a catalyst for change. Images from Geoffrey J. Wallis, ‘Peril in the Square: The Sculpture that changed a city’, Indra Publishing, 2004. Copies available to purchase from the gallery. $45 (plus postage)

24.01.2022 miffy & friends featuring Dick Bruna, Stephen Bird, Sadie Chandler, Nadia Hernández, Carla McRae, Nell, Brian Robinson, and Vipoo Srivilasa. 21 November 2020 - 14 March 2021 QUT Art Museum Brisbane

24.01.2022 Miles Evergood: Watercolours, Drawings and Prints Online Exhibition Born in 1871 in Carlton, Myer Blashki, eleventh child of Hannah and Phillip Blashki, (he was a noted silversmith), grew up in a traditional Jewish migrant family in a rapidly expanding Melbourne. After studies at the National Gallery School, and exhibiting at the VAS and the RAS in Sydney, he made an unusual move. Whilst virtually all his contemporaries were gravitating to London and Paris in 1898, he m...oved to San Francisco, and then to New York. He returned to Australia in the 1930s first to Brisbane, then Sydney, and finally to Melbourne where he and his wife Polly bought a cottage called Yosemite in Kalorama in 1938. He died unexpectedly in 1939. Evergood exhibited his work with success in the US and was well connected to the Melbourne scene in the 30s friends with Rupert Bunny, George Bell, James Quinn, and John Longstaff, among others, all of whom he had met at art school in Melbourne in the 1890s. Castlemaine Gallery held a major retrospective exhibition in 1988. Works are all for sale on behalf of Gael Hammer, the artists great-niece. They will be available for viewing by appointment until the end of 2020 (and well do all we can at present to facilitate sales by phone, email and mobile as we observe the Melbourne lockdown.) #milesevergood #blashki See more

23.01.2022 "It is so often a sign of great public art that it creates controversy when unveiled. In the case of Melbournes City Square it would have no doubt been more palatable to have commissioned a "nice" fountain, as some advocated at the time. However, it is through the creative contribution of artists, architects and designers that our public spaces and built environments are enriched. Public acceptance and appreciation comes with time." Tony Ellwood, Director, NGV "A much large...r sculpture than wed ever experienced, it was designed so members of the community could walk through, within and around it. It was always supposed to be commanding of space and a marker of place, but it never quite landed properly... Vault has found a dignified home at ACCA and sits very happily at the heart of the Melbourne arts precinct." Max Delaney, Director ACCA See more

22.01.2022 ABSTRACTION 19 Painterly, Textural & Symbolic Abstraction of the 1960s & 70s 2 - 23 November This exhibition offers an insight into the shifting nature of tastes and styles. ... They were certainly interesting times. The Helena Rubinstein Scholarship was sending significant artists overseas for further development. Australia contributed a regular contingent to the Sao Paulo biennales. And for the first time, international collectors and museums showed interest: London hosted two significant shows of Australian Art, the first at the Whitechapel Gallery and the second at the Tate Gallery - both of which were followed up with arguably the best group of all, Australian Painting Today, which, for administrative reasons failed to find a venue in London but did travel to Europe. From the United States Harold Mertz assembled probably the largest single collection of works from the period. The period has been one of my personal interests and fields of collection for decades, and many of the works in this exhibition have been in either my gallery stock or personal collection for ages. In all the years of patient collecting, Im still waiting for the market to tip in the same way it has for many of these artists British contemporaries, but whilst this has not yet happened, hopes persist, and meanwhile it remains a counter-cyclical paradise. Charles Nodrum Catalogue online now:https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exh/abstraction-19/

22.01.2022 TREVOR VICKERS: Prints from the Forest of Dean 30 Nov - 21 Dec A suite of 10 silkscreen prints created during a residency with master printer Sally Gimson of Artizan Editions in Gloucestershire, UK, earlier this year. The caves of Clearwell, in the Forest of Dean, have been mined for ochre for thousands of years and Trevor has used some of the pigments in this suite.... Please join us for opening drinks with the Artist on Saturday 30th November, 4 - 6pm Trevor has kindly agreed to say a few words about his work and take questions from guests Online catalogue: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//trevor-vickers-p/

22.01.2022 Works on Paper: The Annual Summer Group Show 8 - 19 December 2020 & 16 - 27 February 2021 Catalogue online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//works-on-paper-2/ And on view in the gallery, Tuesday-Saturday 11am till 5:30pm

21.01.2022 Samara Adamson-Pinczewski: Sinuous Spheres 29 August - 10 October "Sinuous spheres. Not only a reference to the three tondo paintings in this exhibition, and the viewers desire to walk in circles around all of these new works to figure out their geometry and catch their colour shifts, but also to the twisted globe on which we live. My compositions are getting more and more complicated, Adamson-Pinczewski says, But you know what Kate, life is complicated. The challenge...s we face today are intense - socially, politically, environmentally, psychologically, metaphysically. Despite this, these new works by Samara Adamson-Pinczewski are labours of love by an artist who is forever absorbing new information and exploring new ground." Continue reading Kate Nodrums introduction: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//catalogue-essay-/ Fully illustrated catalogue on our website: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//samara-adamson-p/ This exhibition is online only at this stage.

20.01.2022 Left of Field Group Show, till 4 July The Gallery will now be open Tuesday-Saturday, 11am - 5:30pm When we go through the stock lists and picture racks to plan for group shows, there are some works which we keep deciding to pass over. Maybe next time, we say. Often this is because their subject matter doesnt fit comfortably with the rest of the group usually its sex, violence, death, or politics and, not surprisingly, such works tend to ring as jarring a note beside... a modernist landscape or still life, as against a geometric abstract. Sometimes its simply the fact that the work remains enigmatic posing questions rather than making statements. So, in these difficult times, weve given these difficult pictures a room of their own. And hence a warning, some works in this exhibition contain explicit content. Any underlying theme? Perhaps the way artists as disparate as Arthur Boyd and Tony Coleing use the distortion of the human form as symbolic of the distortion of the human mind. Well let you, the viewer, decide on that. Charles has never been shy of a difficult picture, often being attracted to the strange rather than necessarily the saleable. So, in a sense, this show demonstrates another vein in his collecting taste and one that Kate feels (worries) she may have inherited. Exhibition catalogue on our website: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exhi/left-of-field/

20.01.2022 RON ROBERTSON-SWANN: Radiant Colour, Clarity, and Crisp Light in Embraced Space - A Survey Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture from 1964 to the present MELBOURNE ART FAIR Stand B11 1 - 5 August Ron Robertson-Swanns career spans over five decades - as an artist, teacher, mentor, and as an advocate for sculpture in public spaces. This exhibition seeks to celebrate his long and varied lifes work as both a painter and sculptor and highlights the materials, look, and influences that together form the essence of his work Join us and the artist at Stand B11 on Saturday 4th August from 4-5pm for a floor talk read Charles & Kates essay online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//essay-by-charles/

20.01.2022 Follow us on Artsy and explore the catalogue for ABSTRACTION 20 on their world-class online platform Artsy features the world’s leading galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist estates and art fairs, all in one place, and is used by art lovers, museum-goers, patrons, collectors, students, and educators to discover, learn about, and collect art ABSTRACTION 20 ends this Thursday 19 Nov - drop in for a visit! https://www.artsy.net/charles-nodrum-gallery

20.01.2022 Lynne Boyd: Water Mark 9th February - 2nd March Please join us for opening drinks with the artist February 9th 4-6 PM. ... The sea is revelatory. Port Phillip Bay continues to act as muse for my painting in this body of work titled Water Mark, presenting the coastline and horizon, the sea and airy clouded spaces of various and infinite confluence. Underpinning these natural forms I am always aware of the presence of the grid providing a structural balance to the space upon which my work is constructed. The collage elements refer to the materiality of the surface, the methodologies of studio practice and, in this instance, the question of what lies below the surface of the sea. With me on this endeavour have been the Envelope Poems of Emily Dickinson, and the Four Quartets poem East Coker by T. S. Eliot. Eliots initial line In my beginning is my end led me to consider where paintings begin and where they finish, and from there allowing me to attend to the sides of the canvas more closely and to engage with a chance glimpse or a sideways glance, or perhaps an afterimage. The Envelope Poems, fragments written by Dickinson in pencil on the first paper to hand, assisted in my imagining poetry rather than pollution* washing on to the shores of the Bay. Lynne Boyd, 2019 Fully illustrated catalogue now online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//lynne-boyd-water/

19.01.2022 Installation: Abstraction 17: A Field of Interest, c. 1968 left: Richard Dunn, NYC #1, 1968; centre: Margaret Worth, Untitled, 1968; right: David Aspden, Jnana, c. 1966

19.01.2022 Today on At Home With Your Collection, esteemed gallerist Charles Nodrum of Melbourne's Charles Nodrum Gallery shares a glimpse of his home, replete with an array of art from portraits, to optical Aboriginal art, to steelworks and more.

17.01.2022 Three concurrent solo exhibitions, beginning on Saturday 26th May: Richard Dunn: Richard Dunn: Haus Wittgenstein, Kundmanngasse 19 Nigel Lendon: Anti-Nostalgia Trevor Vickers: Recent Paintings Join us for Meet the Artist drinks with Nigel Lendon on Saturday 26th May from 5 - 6pm; and again for Closing Drinks with all three artists, in Melbourne from Canberra, Perth and Sydney respectively, on Saturday 9th June, 4 - 6pm... Exhibition Catalogues online: http://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/ See more

16.01.2022 Janet Dawson Guy Stuart Donald Laycock Join us for the opening of these three solo shows on Saturday 7th March, 4 - 6pm. Exhibition Dates: 7 - 28 March, 2020... Read Charles exhibition essay here: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//guy-stuart-4/thr/ And view all three exhibition catalogues on our website: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/ See more

15.01.2022 WORKS ON PAPER: The Annual Summer Group Exhibition 14 - 23 December 2017 A mixture of works from artists, from Estates, on consignment, and from Charles extensive stockroom; abstraction & figuration; old and new; large and small; prices starting at $350. Fully illustrated exhibition catalogue on our website: http://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//works-on-paper-20/

14.01.2022 WORKS ON PAPER The Annual Summer Group Show 12 - 22 December, 2018 and continuing 9 Feb - 2 Mar, 2019 Including works from Artists, Estates, on consignment for resale, and from the gallerys stockroom, this annual group show is a varied and relatively informal one. Prices start from $150 and buyers are welcome to take works off the wall on purchase - in time for Christmas!... Full catalogue online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//works-on-paper-2/ See more

14.01.2022 Installation: 'Abstraction 17: A Field of Interest, c. 1968' left: Richard Dunn, NYC #1, 1968; centre: Margaret Worth, Untitled, 1968; right: David Aspden, Jnana, c. 1966

14.01.2022 Art Gallery of New South Wales #togetherinart #togetherinartperformance Maissa Alameddine performs Hal Asmar El Lon, a traditional Arabic song of yearning for the beloved, before Lesley Dumbrells 1974 painting Solstice.

13.01.2022 ANN THOMSON: Landscape Emerging 5 - 26 October, 2019 Please join us for opening drinks with the Artist on Saturday 5th October, 4 - 6pm Exhibition Catalogue online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exhi/ann-thomson-4/

13.01.2022 The gallery is open! Subject to Victorian Government guidelines, we welcome visitors Tuesday through Saturday, 11am till 5:30pm ABSTRACTION 20 is on view throughout the entire gallery and continues till Thursday 19th November.... In April 2002, the seasonal group show was pared down to abstract works - and titled 'Abstraction'. The experiment was well received and so every year since (and sometimes twice) it has been repeated. Now in its eighteenth year and twentieth iteration, the Abstraction exhibition has evolved into a fundamental part of the gallery’s program and an element of the Melbourne commercial gallery calendar. Sometimes curated to a particular theme 1960s hard edge painting, for example and sometimes encompassing a broad range of Australian abstract art in general, the exhibitions represent an aspect of the gallery’s secondary market business and, through search and research, seeks to contribute to a thriving history of Australian Art. Fully illustrated catalogue on our website: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/

13.01.2022 Kristin Headlam: Prints from the Plan Chest Online Catalogue https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//kristin-headlam-/ We have compiled a catalogue to reflect what prints are available from Kristin and the Gallery's trusty Plan Chests. Included are works from the 'Garden' series of 1993, 'The Nightingale and The Rose' series of 1997 (inspired by Oscar Wilde's novel of the same title), and the 'Cats' series of 1999 and 2002. All of these prints were made in collaboration with master printer John Loane of Viridian Press. Kristin has also worked with Peter Lancaster of Lancaster Press and with Marieke Dench on projects over the years.

12.01.2022 David Rankin: A display of works from the stockroom and the studio | 6 - 13 September To mark David's visit from New York, we're presenting a short exhibition of paintings from our stockroom and works on paper from the artist's studio that highlight Eastern influences on his practice. Join us for drinks with the artist this Saturday 8th of September from 4 - 6pm Exhibition Catalogue online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exhib/david-rankin/... David Rankin will also be giving an artist talk at Burrinja Cultural Centre, on Sunday 9th September, 2pm. Burrinja presents an exhibition of 1980s abstraction from the Charles Nodrum Gallery called 'Texture & Line'. In the second half of the exhibition, the focus is on textured, gestural and expressionistic paintings, including work by James Gleeson, Victor Majzner, Paul Partos, Stanislaus Rapotec, Michael Taylor, Jan Senbergs, Aida Tomescu, John Walker and David Rankin. Join us at 2pm to hear David speak about his memories of the 80s, his art practice throughout the decade and his experiences after moving to the US in 1989 For more info, visit the Burrinja website: https://www.burrinja.org.au/burrinja-whats-on/whats-on-art

11.01.2022 KRISTIN HEADLAM: The Universe Looks Down ~ Please join us for opening drinks with the Artist on Saturday 20th October, 3 - 5pm ~ A suite of 64 etchings commissioned in 2012 by the University of Melbournes Rare Books Collection, initiated by former librarian Philip Kent, to accompany Chris Wallace-Crabbes epic poem of the same title. Wallace-Crabbe, a leading figure in Melbournes literary world and Kristins partner of many years, composed the poem gradually from 1988 to 2...005. The suite consists of 32 image prints (etchings, with aquatint and hand colouring) and 32 text prints (photo etchings). They are divided into nine chapters, intended for sequential reading, like the text itself. Hence the combined work can be interpreted both as an artists book, and as a coherent body of work for exhibition. The suite is an edition of six, with two sets of Artists Proofs and two sets of Printers Proofs. Full sets are available for sale, together with a limited number of the individual prints. Fully illustrated catalogue now online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//kristin-headlam-/ See more

10.01.2022 Looking - and looked at 20 November - 8 December A group show focused on the human figure Including works by E. Phillips Fox, James Gleeson, Edwin Tanner, Richard Larter, Peter Powditch, Cherry Hood, Linda Marrinon, Kristin Headlam, Shane Jones, Tom Alberts, and more... Fully illustrated catalogue online now: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//looking-and-look/ See more

09.01.2022 Three concurrent solo shows (21 June - 7 July) NORMA REDPATH: Works from the Studio, 70s & 80s EDWIN TANNER: Works on Paper from the Estate GODFREY MILLER: Still Life & Watercolours Please join us for drinks on Wednesday 4th July, 6 - 8pm... Full exhibition catalogues and introductory essays on our website: http://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/ See more

09.01.2022 WARREN BRENINGER: LOVERS Please join us for opening drinks with the artist on Saturday 14th July, from 4 - 6pm Were pleased to welcome Jamie Bradbeer who will lauch the Artists limited edition Book Lovers at the opening. Exhibition Dates: 14 July - 4 August Fully illustrated catalogue online: http://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//warren-breninger-/

09.01.2022 The gallery will be closed for the summer break from Saturday 21st December, re-opening in mid-February. In the meantime, well be available by appointment and will respond to emails, phone messages and mail intermittently. Seasons Greetings and best wishes from us all at the Charles Nodrum Gallery - Charles, Kate & Nati Nodrum, Rachel Weinberg, and Toby the dog! BASTIN, Henri (1896 - 1979), Floral Study, 1963, gouache on paper, 55 x 35.5cm

08.01.2022 "It took me some years to find all the images that felt right. I suppose Id like people to think a little about Slow Art. In the world of having it all now, and quick turnaround cycles for exhibitions, some things emerge slowly and I think theres some value in taking ones time." Kristin Headlam spoke with Artist Profile about her current exhibition The Universe Looks Down - current till Saturday 10th November. Read the full interview here: http://www.artistprofile.com.au/kristin-headlam/

08.01.2022 SHANE JONES: Glow 1 - 22 June Please join us for opening drinks with the artist on Saturday 1st June, 4-6pm When I first saw these new paintings by Shane Jones, Eliot Gruner immediately sprang to mind. It was something about the expansive sky, strong sense of a light source, and the odd but definitely placed tree that drew the connection. But, on second thoughts, you dont see many nocturnes by Gruner nor by many other Australian painters. Both Gruner and Tom Roberts are ...important influences on Jones, whose precise but impressionistic brushwork in oil, painted en plein air and finished from memory in the studio, testify to the manner and process of these 19th century masters. Full moons, star-filled skies, white horses and boats sailing towards the horizon are pregnant with symbolism, but rather than feeling clich here, they add an edge of intrigue to a group of works that are not, in fact, otherwise just pleasant landscapes. Twilight is the time when we transition our senses in preparation for the night. The night is when we must depend on our senses and instincts most heavily, bringing us closest to our primal and ancient selves. Moonlight is rarely experienced by city-dwellers - repelled as it is by street lights and black-out blinds but, in its own special way, its as effective in its illumination as sunlight, producing more of a glow than a light. A landscape drenched in the glow of a full moon is a silent and enchanting scene to behold, infused with eeriness and foreboding; an entirely natural yet supernatural mood that is essentially what Jones captures here. (Kate Nodrum) Exhibition Catalogue: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exhi/shane-jones-5/

08.01.2022 LESLEY DUMBRELL: Implied 3-Dimension 30 Nov - 21 Dec The Charles Nodrum Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Lesley Dumbrell in Melbourne, and this exhibition of recent works on paper to mark the occasion. For over forty years Lesley Dumbrell has been refining her technique of geometric abstract painting and is regarded today as one of Australias most respected artists in the field. ... She has exhibited widely in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane since her first solo show in 1969, including in Thailand. In 1990 she moved to Bangkok and has since maintained two studios, one there and one in Euroa in central Victoria. Please join us for opening drinks with the Artist on Saturday 30th November, 4 - 6pm Lesley has kindly agreed to say a few words about her work and to take questions from guests Online Catalogue: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//lesley-dumbrell-/

07.01.2022 The gallery is pleased to announce that we are once again representing Justin Andrews. We held solo exhibitions of his work in 2009 and 2012 and worked in association with LaTrobe Art Institute to mount a solo show there in 2011. We will include Justin's work in our forthcoming group show Abstraction 20 and we look forward to presenting a solo exhibition at the gallery in 2021.... Justin Andrews has developed a form of geometric abstraction that points towards the complexity of contemporary existence. He summons his compositions through the use of angular elements, dynamic colour and organic surfaces. He is best known for his acrylic paintings on canvas, stretched on frames and panels made entirely by his own hands. His visual and conceptual language references early 20th century avant-garde art movements such as Constructivism and Suprematism, but in doing so extends on their currency and ability to engage the viewer. He states: "I’m inspired by how an abstract painting can remain nebulous and enigmatic even in today’s hard realisms and scientific representations. Amidst this technological era I aim to produce something that is timeless. The world is charged, propelled and sometimes torn with continuous dynamic forces. From within its conceptual core abstraction is able to evade that very hyper-tension that surrounds us, offering the viewer a perceptual moment of some kind that’s ‘other’ to everything else, unexplainable and undeniably human. An abstract painting will always be a point of material contact, a subjective proposition and a window into the unknown. " Visit the artist's website at www.justin-andrews.info For more reading and available works, visit https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//j/justin-andrews/

06.01.2022 David Harley: Selected Paintings from the 80s-00s Jan Murray: inverso 4 - 25 April 2020 The gallery will remain open by appointment. Jan Murray and David Harleys exhibitions will go ahead. However, the usual opening drinks on Saturday 4th will not take place.... To ensure adequate social distancing of visitors, please ring the gallery to arrange a suitable time. Both exhibitions can be viewed on our website and are available for previewing. On a broader note, going forward, we will persevere with our planned exhibition program for the year and will continue to do business by phone and by appointment. We wish all our artists and clients the best of health and luck as we all face this unprecedented threat. Murray: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//jan-murray-inver/ Harley: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exh/david-harley-3/ See more

06.01.2022 Samara Adamson-Pinczewski: Spatial Persuasions 22 March - 14 April Please join us for opening drinks with the artist on Saturday 24th March, 4 - 6pm ."..It was in this environment of determined women and beautiful reflective objects that Samara grew up and developed her visual aesthetic. As a student, her interests went to The Oblique, Gestalt Psychology, Modern and Contemporary architecture, and later to experimental paints and pigments. The strength of the present exhibition attests to a fecund coming together of these influences..." Read the full introduction by Kate Nodrum on our website: http://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//introductory-essa/

06.01.2022 Allan Mitelman & Michael Taylor: Works from the Laverty Collection, Sydney 6-27 April Join us for opening drinks on Saturday 6th April, 4-6pm The Laverty Collection has grown legendary in recent decades. Of special note is the extent to which Colin and Liz focused on particular artists who they then proceeded to collect in depth - of which Allan Mitelman and Michael Taylor are two examples. I have always admired both these artists and have dealt in - and also collected - th...eir work over the years. Mitelmans unwavering commitment to a subtly textured minimalism is in stark contrast to Taylors vigorous gestural brushwork evocative of wind, water and weather. Ten (almost) Monochromes 6-27 April Join us for opening drinks on Saturday 6th April, 4-6pm Also on view, in the downstairs gallery, will be a small group of minimalist works. For some time I have been musing about an exhibition of monochrome paintings and have now been happily spurred on by the consignment of an exceptional ceramic by Marea Gazzard and by the opportunity to show an equally exceptional - and extraordinarily large - work by Julie Irving. Unique in its scale, the work was part of a commission for two large paintings that were installed opposite each other in a Melbourne board room. Each painting constituted four panels a configuration which required its own precise logic to compose. Other artists include Tony Coleing, Geoff de Groen, Andrew Hall, David Harley, Robert Hunter, Andrew Leslie, Paul Partos and Trevor Vickers. Fully illustrated catalogues online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exhibitions/

06.01.2022 Kristin Headlam: Works from the Studio 24 November - 19 December The Melbourne winter lockdown resulted in many households and businesses tidying their backrooms, stores and garages and, in Kristin Headlam’s case, her studio underwent a serious search. Many old friends were unearthed: the brooding, romantic paintings of gardens from the 1990s; works from the ‘News’ series with their cool gaze and satirical intent; and the tender and penetrating glimpses of everyday objects ...rendered in watercolour In this exhibition we see the genres that continue to inspire and bear fruit for this painter, draughtswoman and print-maker: the portrait whether painted from life, from photograph, or from art history; the landscape both public parks and private gardens; and the still life We hope this will be a welcome re-showing of works which have not been seen in Melbourne for decades, and others which have returned from interstate exhibitions over the years. @headlamkristin #garden #gardensofbrunswick See more

06.01.2022 David Rankin: A display of works from the stockroom and the studio | 6 - 13 September To mark Davids visit from New York, were presenting a short exhibition of paintings from our stockroom and works on paper from the artists studio that highlight Eastern influences on his practice. Join us for drinks with the artist this Saturday 8th of September from 4 - 6pm Exhibition Catalogue online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exhib/david-rankin/... David Rankin will also be giving an artist talk at Burrinja Cultural Centre, on Sunday 9th September, 2pm. Burrinja presents an exhibition of 1980s abstraction from the Charles Nodrum Gallery called Texture & Line. In the second half of the exhibition, the focus is on textured, gestural and expressionistic paintings, including work by James Gleeson, Victor Majzner, Paul Partos, Stanislaus Rapotec, Michael Taylor, Jan Senbergs, Aida Tomescu, John Walker and David Rankin. Join us at 2pm to hear David speak about his memories of the 80s, his art practice throughout the decade and his experiences after moving to the US in 1989 For more info, visit the Burrinja website: https://www.burrinja.org.au/burrinja-whats-on/whats-on-art

06.01.2022 Best known for the monumental Great Hall tapestries at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV International), the legacy of painter Roger Kemp is being re-assessed in three concurrent exhibitions at NGV Australia: The Ian Potter Centre, Charles Nodrum Gallery, and Eastgate Gallery.

05.01.2022 Final days! Kristin Headlam: Works from the Studio ends this Saturday 19 December Recognise a few faces? Peter Costello, John and Jeanette Howard, Kevin Rudd, Therese Rein... Prince Charles... The artist muses: Photography has made it easy to present a history image about everything, and make it appear important - my painting of Peter Costello in the Solomon Islands is taken from one such photo. Many of the paintings I made from newspaper images (the later ones anyway) tended to poke fun at the self-importance of politicians... Perhaps these images do depict something important taking place, but what, exactly, is the exchange? #petercostello #kevinrudd #thereserein #johnhoward #jeanettehoward #princecharles

04.01.2022 On 1st May 1980, Ron Robertson-Swanns Vault made its way to Melbournes new City Square. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the sculptures installation. Almost immediately after its installation, the backlash against Vault was rife. Journalists, cartoonists, and columnists, among others, surged to the media with letters of opposition and awe, to antagonize and support the luminous work, nicknamed the Yellow Peril. Few artworks have been involved in such a conflict ...indeed, such a culturally and morally divisive controversy hadnt been seen since the Dobell affair in the 40s or the Blake Prize awarded to Rapotecs Meditating on Good Friday in the 60s - and certainly in Australia no other public work has been the centre of such zealous uproar. Eventually, about a year later, the work was removed in the dead of night and re-located to a part of the city few people frequented. Aesthetics aside, this brought up issues of Artists moral rights (the work was site-specific and its removal potentially undermined its integrity) and of Artists legal rights (as to whether the removal constituted a breach of contract and caused damage to the artists reputation). These are issues that have achieved greater attention in the years since and form an important part of Vaults legacy. Forty years down the track, Vault has emerged not just as one of Melbournes icons but arguably as the best known public sculpture in Australia. The now eponymous Swann yellow and the tensely balanced diagonals of its hard-edge geometry have been re-called, borrowed and extended by architects and designers across Australia. Robertson-Swann, who celebrates his 80th birthday next year, muses that all artists have a living dream of influencing society beyond their work and, through Vault, the realisation of his dream continues on. As Geoffrey Wallis wrote, the row over Vault gave birth to an awareness of the pitfalls, challenges and rewards that new art can bring, and acted as a catalyst for change. Images from Geoffrey J. Wallis, Peril in the Square: The Sculpture that changed a city, Indra Publishing, 2004. Copies available to purchase from the gallery. $45 (plus postage)

04.01.2022 Roger Kemp: Works from the Estate 1930s - 1960s Please join us for opening drinks on Saturday 7th September, 4-6pm Roger Kemps paintings of the late 1930s form a small but coherent body of work one as forward looking and exploratory as any of his Australian contemporaries. Yet, with the brief exception of a few shown in the extensive, five-gallery retrospective curated by Patrick McCaughey in 1978 they have remained virtually unknown. This exhibition, focussing on his f...irst 30 years, briefly maps the steadily diminishing presence of the visible outside world in Kemps paintings - and the equally determined exploration of forms. He practised what some have termed transcendental abstraction and others symbolic abstraction. In this world, forms dont have meaning in the sense that words have meaning (and definition) - rather, they suggest, via the relationships between the forms, an order or harmony which, being abstract, can never be physically depicted, only evoked. Full exhibition catalogue on our website: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//roger-kemp-works/ See more

04.01.2022 JOHN PEART & KARL WIEBKE - Works from the Studio Please join us for opening drinks with Karl and the Peart family, Saturday 10th August, 4- 6pm Exhibition Dates: 10 - 31 August Two concurrent solo shows of work by John Peart and Karl Wiebke; friends and colleagues who shared a mutual respect for one anothers work - and two artists I have always admired. Works have been selected by myself, Karl, and the Peart family - dating mostly from the last decade. This is the first exhi...bition of Karls work in Melbourne for some years and the second show of Johns work we have held since his untimely death in 2013. Johns show includes a group of Night Cloud paintings that were inspired by a trip to Central Australia and constitute the last series he painted; this will be the first time theyre shown in Melbourne. Charles Nodrum Exhibition Catalogues now online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au See more

03.01.2022 Kristin Headlam: Works from the Studio 24 November - 19 December The Melbourne winter lockdown resulted in many households and businesses tidying their backrooms, stores and garages and, in Kristin Headlam’s case, her studio underwent a serious search. Many old friends were unearthed: the brooding, romantic paintings of gardens from the 1990s; works from the ‘News’ series with their cool gaze and satirical intent; and the tender and penetrating glimpses of everyday objects r...endered in watercolour. In this exhibition we see the genres that continue to inspire and bear fruit for this painter, draughtswoman and print-maker: the portrait whether painted from life, from photograph, or from art history; the landscape both public parks and private gardens; and the still life. We hope this will be a welcome re-showing of works which have not been seen in Melbourne for decades, and others which have returned from interstate exhibitions over the years. Fully illustrated catalogue on our website: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//kristin-headlam-/ See more

03.01.2022 Gallery Artists | Group Show | 9 - 30 March 2019 marks the 35th year since the gallery opened, on the 11th of September 1984. The first shows were group exhibitions consisting mostly of work from Charles personal collection: Australian 20th Century Prints, Drawings and Watercolours; Mid 20th Century Australian Figurative Paintings; 20 Paintings from the 1960s; and Paintings and works on paper by Peter Upward and John Olsen. These were soon followed by solo exhibitio...ns of artists including John Peart, Peter Kaiser and Royston Harpur in 1985, David Aspden, George Johnson, Mary Macqueen and Gareth Sansom in 1986, and David Rankin, Ron Robertson-Swann, Mike Brown and James Meldrum in 1987. In 1988 the gallery relocated over the road to 267 Church Street. Throughout the years the gallery has handled work by a wide variety of artists from the drawings of Russell Drysdale and Mary Macqueen to the reductive abstraction of Julie Irving and Trevor Vickers; and from the potent figuration of Paula Rego to the painterly abstraction of Jules Olistki and John Hoyland. Initiatives and arrangements with different artists have taken many different shapes over the years and we continue to look beyond our stable for interesting work and potential projects. Inevitably, over the years some relationships have shifted from one with the artist, to one with the artists descendants or beneficiaries: most recently weve marked the passing of Syd Ball, Ti Parks, John Peart and Norma Redpath. Today, we acknowledge and thank all the artists and beneficiaries with whom we currently have a working relationship, as well as our loyal clients and supporters, and hope that these may continue into the future. Also, we take the opportunity to acknowledge the increasing responsibilities that Kate Nodrum has taken up in the running of the gallery in recent years. Full catalogue online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/ex/gallery-artists/

03.01.2022 ABSTRACTION 18: Further a-Field, 1970s 20 September - 13 October You are cordially invited to opening drinks with the artists this Saturday 22nd September, 4-6pm An exhibition of works showing some of the directions taken up by artists selected for The Field exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1968; the works range from looser, lyrical abstraction, to Op Art, to photography, to Conceptual Art. Also included are works by artists with hitherto different origin...s who incorporated significant colour elements into their work. International artists include Olitski and Bhavsar. Fully illustrated catalogue online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//abstraction-18-f/ See more

02.01.2022 Heads & Bodies 1 - 17 March A group exhibition that explores the depiction of the human head and body. Including works by Russell Drysdale, John Peter Russell, Laureano Barrau, Tom Roberts, John Passmore, Godfrey Miller, William Dobell, Anthony Underhill, Ivan Durrant, Godwin Bradbeer, Jenny Watson, Philip Faulks, John Hopkins, James Gleeson, and many more. Fully illustrated catalogue now online: http://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/ex/heads-and-bodies/

02.01.2022 ABSTRACTION 17: A Field of Interest, c. 1968 Please join us for opening drinks with the artists on Saturday 28th April, 5 - 7pm To coincide with the restaging of The Field exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Charles Nodrum Gallery presents a group exhibition of hard-edge colour-field painting and sculpture dating from around 1968. Included will be further works by artists represented in the seminal exhibition, and works by artists who would have been included had the circumstances been slightly different as well as a few others whose work can be seen as incorporating some of the aesthetic elements of colour-field painting. Exhibition Dates: 26 April - 19 May Full catalogue online: http://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//abstraction-17-a-/

01.01.2022 Water, Soil & Life 4 - 25 May To be opened by Guy Abrahams, Co-founder, CLIMARTE on Saturday 4th May, 4-6pm A group exhibition of landscape paintings, ranging broadly in date and style, including works by Eugene von Guerard, J. H. Carse, Sydney Long, William Frater, Lina Bryans, James Gleeson, Fred Williams, Arthur Boyd, Michael Shannon, Maxie Tjampitjinpa, John Gollings, Bill Henson, and many others... This is the second landscape exhibition we have held in conjunction with ClimArte and, whilst the gallery will provide standard information and background on the paintings where applicable from the art historical perspective, we are pleased to be working in collaboration with climate scientist, Dr Joelle Gergis, who will comment on selected works from geographical and climatological perspectives to help strengthen awareness of the problems present and future that confront us. Full catalogue online now: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au//water-soil-and-l/