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Nicholas Kachel : Collection

Locality: Coffs Harbour, New South Wales

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Address: 177b Orlando Street 2450 Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 Peter Wade 'Troll' 2007 Carved wood (camphor laurel), acrylic and ink 47 x 36 x 20 cm... Exhibited 'Peter Wade - New Work' Solo exhibition March 2007 John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour NSW Australia Curation by Steve Bush and Nicholas Kachel Artist Statement and Biography I grew up in Sydney, in Oyster Bay in a house that backed on to the Georges River. The back yard had a large expanse of exposed natural sandstone shaped by the wind. For me nature will always be the best sculptor. From a very early age my brother and I were given chores including working on the house and the maintenance a series of old boats. Not much fun at the time but I’ve since come to realise it provided a solid foundation of good basic skills. All my life I’ve had a very strong compulsion to draw and I began achieving greater satisfaction turning drawings into 3d objects. Drawing is still a big part of teasing out and refining ideas for pieces. I also often add drawing to a 3D work. I studied Architecture for a while at Sydney University then travelled and worked in a varied range of jobs all around Australia, eventually settling in Coffs Harbour. In Coffs Harbour I’ve combined my teaching role at the North Coast Tafe with my sculpture practice along with studying art and design. I feel that now I have a good mix, working on my own pieces at home as well as working part-time in a very creative environment teaching furniture design. I like to show an eclectic mix of skills and media use, and to regularly come up with fresh and new work that is often described as distinctive, quirky and humorous. Often people see meanings and themes in the work that I hadn’t intended but I’m happy for people to identify their own narratives. I can spend a large amount of time on individual pieces but I’ve also always enjoyed creating almost spontaneous pieces from existing objects. One of my favourites is still a very early piece. I attached an electrical lead and a switch to a large pumpkin and sat it on my lounge room floor plugged (safely) into a power point. People would always ask What does it do? and I’d reply Nothing, it’s a pumpkin. 'Troll' 2007 Made partly for sentimental reasons, trolls were a short-lived but surprisingly ubiquitous trend when I was a kid. I’ve always been in awe of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings including his version of the Vitruvian Man. Combining the two seemed a nice juxtaposition of incongruities. As I get older I oscillate between optimism and pessimism about the impact we’ll have on the planet. This piece ‘Troll’ 2007 for me represents how mankind can be capable of great things. But I also wonder if deep down we’re possibly just trolls. In recent years another type of ‘troll’ has become ubiquitousbut I tend to mainly lean towards optimism in my ideals. Collection : The Artist

22.01.2022 Lilly Kelly Napangardi 'Sandhills' 2004 Acrylic on Belgian linen 153 x 122 cm... Provenance Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu, Mount Liebig NT Catalogue number 10-0044LK Exhibited Australian Aboriginal Art 2006/2007 9 December 2006 - 20 January 2007 John Gordon Gallery Coffs Harbour NSW Australia Lilly Kelly Napangardi was born at Haasts Bluff in the Northern Territory, and moved as a young girl to the newly established settlement of Papunya. She assisted her husband Norman Kelly with his paintings for Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd in the early 1980's, but later relocated with her family to Mount Liebig NT and began producing her own work for Watiyawanu Artists. She won the 3rd Northern Territory Art Award for painting in 1986, and began developing her own very distinctive style. Her work came to the attention of a much wider audience with the showing of two major paintings at the Yirabana gallery at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2001, and since then she has been included in numerous group shows in Australia and overseas. Lilly Kelly Napangardi's recent works are finely dotted with small sticks and depict sandhills, wind and 'after rain' in her country near Mount Liebig and Haasts Bluff. She also paints the sandhills of the Kintore and Connistan areas, and holds authority over the Women's Dreaming story associated with Kunajarrayi. Private Collection : NSW Australia

22.01.2022 Margaret Ackland 'Old' 2007 Oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm... Exhibited 'Margaret Ackland' Solo Exhibition 9 June - 30 June 2007 John Gordon Gallery - Coffs Harbour NSW Australia Curation by Steve Bush and Nicholas Kachel Margaret Ackland was born in 1954 and has had 30 solo exhibitions since 1985, most recently at Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne. She is represented in a range of national collections including Artbank, the Holmes a Court Collection and Deakin University. Ackland has won and been a five time finalist in the Portia Geach Portrait Prize, a Blake Prize finalist and has had her work featured in Italian Vogue and on the ABC TV series Compass. Ackland was recently included in 'Not the Way Home - 13 Artists Paint the Desert',a group expedition organised by Artist Profile Magazine and exhibited at the National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney My many thanks to Margaret Ackland for this wonderful gift after her third successful solo exhibition with John Gordon Gallery.

20.01.2022 Helen Minogue 'Little Wolf' 2014 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 30 cm... Exhibited 'CAT TOWN' Drawings and Paintings by Helen and Jeremy Minogue December 2016 The Art Factory, Coffs Harbour NSW Australia Artist Statement There are so many ways for humans to make marks, and so many subjects and objects. Even walking down the street there is a vast visual world and a world of ideas. Object : As an artist I get my ideas from many sources including inanimate obects - natural and man made, places, living things, iconic images, often the sligtly grotesque or humorous [to me]. The inital idea for a painting is driven by these objects, (or muses), and that feeds the subject or stories of the work...that's the easy bit. Subject : The sublime in the mundane, human weakness, human vanity, love, death, visual and verbal puns. My work has a lot to do with language. The unfolding of the finished work is like a narrative, a comedy of errors maybe, in which all the 'errors' are stifled or transformed. Process : I am interested in the process as a series of corrections or decisions that uncover new insights. I am interested in the way the paint itself performs as well as what the paint says about the objects, the subject, the world and myself. This process is often like rearranging things in a room, until they are 'right'. It is often hard to sacrifice parts of the work that I have grown fond of in order to make the art 'good'. The challenge of this plays an essential part in the vitality and history of the work. It mirrors the struggles, joys and sacrifices of everyday life. I do often feel like a choreographer or that I am part of a play when I work, and that each work has a history. Artist Biography Helen Minogue grew up in Brisbane QLD and has worked and lived on the North Coast for the last 15 years. Minogue has work in private and public collections in Australia and England. She achieved a Bachelor of Visual Art from the Queensland College of Art Brisbane from 1986-88. Since that time she has had work included in a number of awards and has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in private and regional galleries. Minogue has been a finalist in the Redland Art Prize (Cleveland, Brisbane), the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award - EMSLA (Coffs Harbour), Open Outback Art Prize (Broken Hill), Manning Art Prize (Taree), Stanthorpe Art Award (Stanthorpe) as well as other projects and awards. Collection : Abigail Moncrieff & Nicholas Kachel

17.01.2022 Lilly Kelly Napangardi Sandhills 2004 Acrylic on Belgian linen 153 x 122 cm... Provenance Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu, Mount Liebig NT Catalogue number 10-0044LK Exhibited Australian Aboriginal Art 2006/2007 9 December 2006 - 20 January 2007 John Gordon Gallery Coffs Harbour NSW Australia Lilly Kelly Napangardi was born at Haasts Bluff in the Northern Territory, and moved as a young girl to the newly established settlement of Papunya. She assisted her husband Norman Kelly with his paintings for Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd in the early 1980s, but later relocated with her family to Mount Liebig NT and began producing her own work for Watiyawanu Artists. She won the 3rd Northern Territory Art Award for painting in 1986, and began developing her own very distinctive style. Her work came to the attention of a much wider audience with the showing of two major paintings at the Yirabana gallery at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2001, and since then she has been included in numerous group shows in Australia and overseas. Lilly Kelly Napangardis recent works are finely dotted with small sticks and depict sandhills, wind and after rain in her country near Mount Liebig and Haasts Bluff. She also paints the sandhills of the Kintore and Connistan areas, and holds authority over the Womens Dreaming story associated with Kunajarrayi. Private Collection : NSW Australia

13.01.2022 Margaret Ackland Old 2007 Oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm... Exhibited Margaret Ackland Solo Exhibition 9 June - 30 June 2007 John Gordon Gallery - Coffs Harbour NSW Australia Curation by Steve Bush and Nicholas Kachel Margaret Ackland was born in 1954 and has had 30 solo exhibitions since 1985, most recently at Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne. She is represented in a range of national collections including Artbank, the Holmes a Court Collection and Deakin University. Ackland has won and been a five time finalist in the Portia Geach Portrait Prize, a Blake Prize finalist and has had her work featured in Italian Vogue and on the ABC TV series Compass. Ackland was recently included in Not the Way Home - 13 Artists Paint the Desert,a group expedition organised by Artist Profile Magazine and exhibited at the National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney My many thanks to Margaret Ackland for this wonderful gift after her third successful solo exhibition with John Gordon Gallery.

11.01.2022 Peter Wade Troll 2007 Carved wood (camphor laurel), acrylic and ink 47 x 36 x 20 cm... Exhibited Peter Wade - New Work Solo exhibition March 2007 John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour NSW Australia Curation by Steve Bush and Nicholas Kachel Artist Statement and Biography I grew up in Sydney, in Oyster Bay in a house that backed on to the Georges River. The back yard had a large expanse of exposed natural sandstone shaped by the wind. For me nature will always be the best sculptor. From a very early age my brother and I were given chores including working on the house and the maintenance a series of old boats. Not much fun at the time but Ive since come to realise it provided a solid foundation of good basic skills. All my life Ive had a very strong compulsion to draw and I began achieving greater satisfaction turning drawings into 3d objects. Drawing is still a big part of teasing out and refining ideas for pieces. I also often add drawing to a 3D work. I studied Architecture for a while at Sydney University then travelled and worked in a varied range of jobs all around Australia, eventually settling in Coffs Harbour. In Coffs Harbour Ive combined my teaching role at the North Coast Tafe with my sculpture practice along with studying art and design. I feel that now I have a good mix, working on my own pieces at home as well as working part-time in a very creative environment teaching furniture design. I like to show an eclectic mix of skills and media use, and to regularly come up with fresh and new work that is often described as distinctive, quirky and humorous. Often people see meanings and themes in the work that I hadnt intended but Im happy for people to identify their own narratives. I can spend a large amount of time on individual pieces but Ive also always enjoyed creating almost spontaneous pieces from existing objects. One of my favourites is still a very early piece. I attached an electrical lead and a switch to a large pumpkin and sat it on my lounge room floor plugged (safely) into a power point. People would always ask What does it do? and Id reply Nothing, its a pumpkin. Troll 2007 Made partly for sentimental reasons, trolls were a short-lived but surprisingly ubiquitous trend when I was a kid. Ive always been in awe of Leonardo da Vincis drawings including his version of the Vitruvian Man. Combining the two seemed a nice juxtaposition of incongruities. As I get older I oscillate between optimism and pessimism about the impact well have on the planet. This piece Troll 2007 for me represents how mankind can be capable of great things. But I also wonder if deep down were possibly just trolls. In recent years another type of troll has become ubiquitousbut I tend to mainly lean towards optimism in my ideals. Collection : The Artist

10.01.2022 Helen Minogue Little Wolf 2014 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 30 cm... Exhibited CAT TOWN Drawings and Paintings by Helen and Jeremy Minogue December 2016 The Art Factory, Coffs Harbour NSW Australia Artist Statement There are so many ways for humans to make marks, and so many subjects and objects. Even walking down the street there is a vast visual world and a world of ideas. Object : As an artist I get my ideas from many sources including inanimate obects - natural and man made, places, living things, iconic images, often the sligtly grotesque or humorous [to me]. The inital idea for a painting is driven by these objects, (or muses), and that feeds the subject or stories of the work...thats the easy bit. Subject : The sublime in the mundane, human weakness, human vanity, love, death, visual and verbal puns. My work has a lot to do with language. The unfolding of the finished work is like a narrative, a comedy of errors maybe, in which all the errors are stifled or transformed. Process : I am interested in the process as a series of corrections or decisions that uncover new insights. I am interested in the way the paint itself performs as well as what the paint says about the objects, the subject, the world and myself. This process is often like rearranging things in a room, until they are right. It is often hard to sacrifice parts of the work that I have grown fond of in order to make the art good. The challenge of this plays an essential part in the vitality and history of the work. It mirrors the struggles, joys and sacrifices of everyday life. I do often feel like a choreographer or that I am part of a play when I work, and that each work has a history. Artist Biography Helen Minogue grew up in Brisbane QLD and has worked and lived on the North Coast for the last 15 years. Minogue has work in private and public collections in Australia and England. She achieved a Bachelor of Visual Art from the Queensland College of Art Brisbane from 1986-88. Since that time she has had work included in a number of awards and has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in private and regional galleries. Minogue has been a finalist in the Redland Art Prize (Cleveland, Brisbane), the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award - EMSLA (Coffs Harbour), Open Outback Art Prize (Broken Hill), Manning Art Prize (Taree), Stanthorpe Art Award (Stanthorpe) as well as other projects and awards. Collection : Abigail Moncrieff & Nicholas Kachel

03.01.2022 Marcia O'Sullivan : Ceramics John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour NSW Australia

03.01.2022 Marcia OSullivan : Ceramics John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour NSW Australia