The Clayton Utz Art Partnership brings together a unique collaboration between two outstanding Australian artists and our firm.
Seventh Melbourne exhibition: Kate Waanders and Sarah Summers
In this exhibition we were delighted to feature works from Kate Waanders and Sarah Summers. The acclaimed artists bring together a blend of familiar scenes through traditional genres of landscape, portraiture and still life paintings.
Kate decided that she would pursue her passion and began painting her first few works, despite this being with only a limited palette and few brushes. Her palette has since broadened and after many years of being creative via other hand crafts, she has decided to put all her efforts to learning how to paint. Kate still enjoys creating and indulging in colour, shape and texture. Her painting style is realistic, focusing on still life. The objects or animals in Kate’s artworks are sometimes linked by story, otherwise simply by form, colour and texture.
Sarah's practice centres around personal everyday moments that are transformed by light and dark. Recently she has become interested in the garden as a space of agency and aliveness, and a place of mutual tending. Her paintings are both containers for internal feelings and odes to nature’s mystery and wonder, always looking for what can be found in the darkness of shadows, sky, and earth. The oil paintings are informed by a regular drawing practice and multiple gouache studies, a process which allows for the material to speak and surprises to emerge.
Catalogues:
Kate Waanders
Sarah Summers
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Sixth Melbourne exhibition: Elizabeth Barnett and Jeff Makin
In this exhibition we were delighted to feature works from Elizabeth Barnett and Jeff Makin whose paintings embody the spirit of country Victoria.
Elizabeth Barnett's vibrant still life paintings introduce exotic and visually compelling botanicals to domestic scenes of treasured objects, books and furniture. This introduction gives new dimension to Barnett’s intimate still life scenes. Her subjects do not sit flat upon the canvas, but instead reach up from it, enlivened by the wild and natural world. This liveliness belies the ‘stillness’ of still life painting and along with Barnett’s painterly gestures of shadow, line and colour creates a visual dynamism that reaches beyond tradition. Barnett’s revisioning of tradition similarly plays to perceptions of domesticity and daily life. Far from a sense of duty or routine, there is an implicit celebration of the everyday in Barnett’s work. In a bustling cosmopolitan world Barnett draws her viewer into scenes of daily life at her Macedon studio and its bushland surrounds, offering a wondrous escape.
Jeff Makin’s art has long explored the picturesque and the sublime in nature, rooted in a specifically Australian locality. The You Yangs, the Grampians, Mt Buller, Flinders Ranges, Lake St Clair. Lake Eyre, Wannon Falls and the Yarra Valley are all locations that Makin has visited intermittently throughout his career, in search of capturing those intangible qualities that form the essence of the Australian landscape.
Catalogues:
Elizabeth Barnett
Jeff Makin
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Fifth Melbourne exhibition: Margaret McIntosh and Paul Ryan
In our fifth exhibition we were excited to feature works from Margaret McIntosh and Paul Ryan who both take inspiration by actively engaging in the world around us.
Margaret McIntosh likes being inside other people’s houses, having a look at their things. The allure of being privy to displays of prized belongings and initiate glimpses into the settings of their daily lives. As visitors we are invited to move through hallways,
living rooms and kitchen spaces - spaces that transcend public and private spaces. Moving through these spaces we fabricate our own understanding of what we see, how spaces and objects are used when we’re not there, why particular objects are given special place on a mantle piece. What we don’t see has its own intrigue; what lies behind closed doors, what’s stocked in the refrigerator or crammed into the third drawer down?
In a wry evaluation of what is ‘Australian’ Paul Ryan does not shirk from uncomfortable moments in our shared history. Indeed, confronting these histories is an important part of developing a stronger society. In this confrontation of Australian history, Mick Jagger is cast as botanist Joseph Banks dressed in pastel dandy garb, and jaunty still life scenes are populated with weeds like Morning Glory. These comical and often anachronistic elements of Ryan’s still life and landscape paintings highlight the impositions of colonialism and draw striking analogies between invasive species and European settlement. His works are painted raw and fresh atop old linens with unsuccessful works, and roughly painted with big brush strokes. This imbues his work with an immediate quality and energy that is ordinarily alien to historical and still life paintings. As much as his subjects, Ryan’s invigorative approach to painting sparks inquiry into historical narratives and traditions.
Catalogue of works:
Margaret McIntosh Paul Ryan
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Fourth Melbourne exhibition: Graeme Drendel and Belynda Henry
Our fourth exhibition featured artists Graeme Drendel and Belynda Henry.
Graeme Drendel has been painting professionally for over thirty years. This significant exhibition showcases works produced from the 1980’s through to the present, throughout the artist’s explorations in various styles, media and techniques. Following the publication of the detailed monograph Graeme Drendel by Gavin Fry in 2016 and Drendel’s major survey exhibition ‘Silos + Silence’ held at Mildura Regional Gallery in early 2017, this is an exceptional opportunity to view a large overview of works by this prolific and highly regarded artist. Graeme is Victorian born and an Archibald Prize finalist.
Belynda Henry is widely renowned for her luscious and ethereal paintings of the landscape in which she is immersed. At the heart of Henry’s vibrant and evocative work is her deep connection to and respect for the wonders of the natural world, the essence of which she poignantly captures in each breathtaking scene. Drawn from her own experience of life surrounded by spectacular Australian bushland, Henry also derives great inspiration from her extensive travels around the world.
Catalogue of works:
Graeme Drendel Belynda Henry
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Third Melbourne exhibition: Lottie Consalvo and Miranda Skoczek
Our third exhibition featured artists Lottie Consalvo and Miranda Skoczek.
Lottie Consalvo is a Newcastle-based artist, originally from Melbourne and born in Sale, Victoria, in 1985. In 2015, Consalvo was selected to be in residence with Marina Abramovic in Sydney as part of Kaldor Public Art Projects 30. Consalvo also exhibited in Millerntor Gallery #5, Hamburg, in 2015 with her performance and video work ‘The Bird Catcher’. In 2018, the artist had her first solo museum exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Victoria. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in Mexico and New Zealand. Consalvo’s work is also held in a number of collections including Artbank, Macquarie University, Allens law firm, The Stevenson Collection and Warner Music Australia.
Miranda Skoczek has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane since 2008. Her work has been included in group exhibitions including '9x5 NOW’ at Margaret Lawrence Gallery Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne and internationally in Hong Kong and Denmark. Skoczek has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) from the Victorian College of the Arts. She has been profiled in publications including Art Guide Australia, Australian Art Review and Vogue Living. Skoczek's work is held in the collection of Artbank and prominent institutional, corporate and private collections. Her work will be included in the forthcoming exhibition Gorman: Ten Years of Collaborating at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne in March 2019.
Catalogue of works:
Lottie Consalvo Miranda Skoczek
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Second Melbourne exhibition: Heidi Yardley and Rhys Lee
Our second exhibition featured artists Heidi Yardley and Rhys Lee.
Heidi Yardley is a recognised Australian artist who has exhibited widely throughout the country for the last 20 years. She has been a finalist in significant prizes including The Archibald Prize, Wynne Prize, Sulman Prize and The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. Her practice explores elusive worlds of displaced identity through representations of the female figure, often in surreal configurations, and her work is held in a number of public institutions including Artbank, Gippsland Art Gallery, and the University of Queensland Art Museum.
Rhys Lee has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and internationally in New York, USA; Cologne Germany and Gisborne New Zealand. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne (2015), the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2012), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (2001), The University of Queensland National Artist’s Self Portrait Prize (2009) and the Doug Moran Prize at the State Library of New South Wales (2009). Internationally, his work has been included in group exhibitions in Dusseldorf, Germany; London, UK and New York, USA. Lee has a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Graphic Design from the Queensland College of Art (1997). A monograph on the artist was published in 2009. Lee’s work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the University of Queensland Art Museum and Artbank
Catalogue of works:
Heidi Yardley Rhys Lee
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Inaugural Melbourne exhibition: Jon Cattapan and Dane Lovett
June 2018 - January 2019: Our first Melbourne exhibition featured artists Jon Cattapan and Dane Lovett.
Having been awarded some of the country’s highest accolades for achievements in visual art, Jon Cattapan is one of Australia’s most recognisable and celebrated painters. His works appear in all state and territory institutions and he has received numerous government and corporate grants, residencies and prizes since the beginning of his career in 1979. Jon is also currently Director of the Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of VCA and MCM.
Since 2008, Dane Lovett has cemented his position as one of Australia’s most coveted emerging painters. He has been a consistent recipient of significant awards, grants and artist residencies. His works belong to major Australian institutions, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artbank, Gold Coast City Gallery, as well as numerous private collections in Australia and overseas.
Catalogue of works:
Jon Cattapan Dane Lovett
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.