Rock 'n' Roll
30 Years On...
June 5 - July 7, 2018

I celebrate 30 years in business with a group show called Rock 'n' Roll - a title that simply reflects the ups and downs of it, the restless rhythms of exhibition changeover, and the drive required to maintain the intimate relationships that fuel the art business. That is the way of it. Artists, collectors and myself in conversation about things. About the delicate dance of creativity and commerce. About emotion that is both single minded and co-operative. And ultimately, about survival.

This show, as most do, talks around corners and across space. It brings together new work from the studio, and places this alongside significant works from stock. Older work talks to new, and we bear witness to what comes about. Julia Morison's two Teaching Aids from 2001 for example, tell a good story between Leigh Martin's poured resin painting from 2011 and Anne Noble's beautiful requiem for the honey bee, Bruissement #4 and #18, a pair from 2017.
It is predominantly a gathering of those artists with whom I've worked the longest, but not quite. And it is better for the fact that genders are about equal, media are well and truly mixed (the collective et al is right with the programme, glazing jugs) and attitudes around process and the gravitas of intent co-exist with the playful - a lighter more humorous approach. Let there be plenty more years to come!
JS




Selected works
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List of works
Julia Morison Teaching Aids: Appropriate brushes for a landscape painting with black
horizon line and red sun spot, 2001
nylon twist brushes, aluminium, $22,500
Julia Morison Teaching Aids: Appropriate brushes for a small flower painting, 2001
dish mops, plaster, PVA, acrylic, aluminium, $22,500
Lonnie Hutchinson Love You Too, 2018
builders paper, 1200 x 750 x 95mm, $4200
Andrew Drummond Site for Abrasion, 2006
photographic print on rag paper, 1/1, 2490 x 1200mm fr, $28,000
Anne Noble Bruissement #4, 2017
The Bee Wing Photograms
pigment print on Canson baryta paper, ed 2 of 10, 625 x 1600mm fr, $7500
Anne Noble Bruissement #18, 2017
The Bee Wing Photograms
pigment print on Canson baryta paper, ed 3 of 10, 1760 x 625mm fr, $7500
Richard Reddaway Tales from Elsewhere (Giraffe and Bear), 2018
photomontage, digital inkjet on Hahnemühle paper, 1/1, 1900 x 940mm, $8200
et al Pot 11, 2018
Estate of L Budd w Martin Poppelwell
earthenware with white slip, black stain & pencil, h255mm, $3000
et al Pot 12, 2018
Estate of L Budd w Martin Poppelwell
earthenware with white slip, black stain & pencil, h 325mm
Collection of L Budd Estate
Leigh Martin Untitled #10, 2011
pigmented resin on canvas, 1370 x 1220mm, $16,500
Melissa Macleod Core #1, 2018
sand (Brighton beach) & PVA on 300gsm Fabriano paper, 2040 x 930mm fr, $3800
Rob Hood Triple Smoked, 2018
kegs & stainless pipe, 2900 x 500 x 500mm, $12,000
Rob Hood Otira (III), 2018
framed collage, 680 x 750mm, $2800
Neil Dawson Murmur Dome (fancy black), 2018
painted 1.5mm steel, 1000 x 1000 x 110mm, $15,000
Marie le Lievre In (House), 2017
oil on canvas, 1650 x 1800mm, $16,500
Michael Parekowhai Tāmaramara, 2018
Cow-hide boots & plastic flowers, NFS
John Pule Fonua galo (pogipogi tuai), 2018
enamel, ink & polyeurethane on canvas, 400 x 400mm, $8500
Chris Heaphy Untitled (Birdlings), 2004
acrylic on canvas, 300 x 400mm, $5200
Kristin Hollis Leader of the Pack, 2009
charcoal, pencil & acrylic on paper, 860 x 1490mm, $5800
Saskia Leek Untitled, 2018
oil on board, 580 x 470mm, $6000
Saskia Leek Untitled (sun-sea), 2018
oil on board, 580 x 470mm, $6000
Prices include GST
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