The Clayton Utz Art Partnership brings together a unique collaboration between two outstanding Australian artists and our firm.
Eleventh Sydney Exhibition: Joanna Braithwaite and Michael McHugh
Our Eleventh exhibition featured Joanna Braithwaite and Michael McHugh, two artists united by a deep love of painting and the natural world.
Joanna Braithwaite’s paintings of animals and humans have established her reputation as an artist concerned with the natural world, evolution and science, and the nature of authority and power.
With the use of gestural acrylic mark making, McHugh creates a layered abstraction moving between the paintings’ surfaces and botanical shapes. Works are sometimes sombre and brooding, and at other times energetic and vibrant, with textural layers echoing moments in time. McHugh believes constant drawing to be fundamental to his painting process.
This foundation enables him to fully explore composition and vigorously push boundaries with colour and technique, while also creating new organic forms.
Catalogues
Joanna Braithwaite
Michael McHugh
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Tenth Sydney Exhibition: Ken Done and Annalisa Ferraris
Our Tenth exhibition featured one of Australia’s most iconic and well-known artists, Ken Done, and Sydney-based artist Annalisa Ferraris.
Ken's works are widely recognised as holding a unique position in Australia's cultural heritage. In many parts of the world he has come to symbolise Australia and Australians: creative, optimistic and bold.
Annalisa's works also depict nature and architecture but, in contrast to Ken, in a geometric and minimalist way, artfully using flat planes and shadows to create depth.
Catalogues:
Ken Done
Annalisa Ferraris
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Ninth Sydney Exhibition: Oliver Watts and Peta Minnici
Our ninth exhibition featured two locally based artists, Oliver Watts and Peta Minnici.
Oliver is a contemporary painter whose work delves into the historical, psychological and material possibilities of painting. The paintings equivocate between high seriousness and the farcical; between historical genres and pop; between tableaux and painterly surface.
Peta's work encompasses oil painting, drawing and watercolour. Selecting subjects based on personal memory, her subjects range from humble figurative portraits and still life images to familiar landscapes and interior settings.
Catalogues
Oliver Watts
Peta Minnici
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Eighth Sydney Exhibition: Zoe Young and Noel McKenna
In our eighth exhibition we were excited to feature two locally based artists Zoe Young and Noel McKenna.
Both artists derive inspiration from their surroundings, everyday objects, animals and human interactions. While McKenna delivers sophisticated and restrained minimalist paintings, Young’s approach is to immerse her imagery in richly applied acrylics and colour.
Catalogues
Zoe Young
Neil McKenna
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Seventh Sydney Exhibition: Fiona Lowry and Dean Brown
In our seventh exhibition we were delighted to feature artworks by two Sydney-based artists, Fiona Lowry and Dean Brown.
Fiona Lowry is known for her contemporary renderings of two traditional genres; landscape and portraiture.
Dean Brown is a painter and printmaker known for his formal rendering of figures and objects that contain a characteristic stillness and speak to moments in time.
Catalogues
Fiona Lowry
Dean Brown
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Sixth Sydney Exhibition: Jasper Knight and Amber Boardman
In the sixth exhibition we were thrilled to be featuring artworks by internationally renowned artists, Jasper Knight and Amber Boardman. This unique pairing creates thematic and stylistic dialogues whilst also reflecting the artists’ friendship and admiration of each other’s work.
Seven times Archibald finalist, Knight is known for his bold use of primary colour and industrial subjects, while Boardman’s figurative paintings examine crowd behaviour and the influence of the internet on ever changing social norms.
Catalogues
Jasper Knight
Amber Boardman
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Fifth Sydney Exhibition: Reg Mombassa and David Griggs
In our fifth Sydney exhibition we featured artworks by two internationally acclaimed artists Christopher O'Doherty, also know as Reg Mombassa and David Griggs. Amongst his broad practice, Reg is well known for the iconic designs of the famous Mambo clothing brand. Griggs is famous for his bold, anarchistic paintings and exhibiting in international museums such as the Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2019.
Reg Mombassa is an Australian musician and artist. He is known for his membership in bands Mental as Anything, Dog Trumpet and The Pinks. He worked with Mambo Graphics designing T-shirts and posters since 1986 and exhibited paintings, drawings and prints at Watters Gallery from 1975 to 2018.
Beneath the humour in his work lies the expression of serious insights and sympathies. O’Doherty’s oeuvre is shaped from allegorical landscapes that create lingering, enigmatic sensations to both invite and unsettle his audience. His depictions of the familiar Australian landscape are imbued with an atmosphere of the immaterial to build a soft pulsing anticipation and gnawing stillness within his work. In the words of Australian art historian Chris McAuliffe, “In O’Doherty’s hands, every horizon hides an unreachable place where we long to be, every hillside implies an opposing slope that we’ll never know”.
Famous for his bold, anarchistic approach, David Griggs’ unique blend of portraiture, political imagery and vernacular motifs explore the darker side of the human condition. Combining humour and dark imagery, David Griggs presents truths of the darker undercurrents of human existence.
David Griggs presented a major survey exhibition BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN at Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW, which is touring NSW. His work is often collaborative, engaging directly with communities while remaining sensitive to the ethical and moral obligations this demands. For 10 years Griggs resided in the Philippines and has created a significant body of work traversing painting, photography and film that reveals the social hierarchies and underground culture of his adopted home. He is currently living and working in Sydney.
Catalogues
Reg Mombassa
David Griggs
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Fourth Sydney Exhibition: Neil Frazer and Telly Tu'u
Our fourth exhibition featured artists Neil Frazer and Telly Tu'u.
Neil Frazer is an award-winning artist who focuses on large-scale, abstract landscape artwork. Neil has been bestowed with accolades and scholarships including the People's Choice Award at the Fleurieu Art Prize and prestigious Fulbright Travel grant to study at the New York Studio School.
Telly Tu'u is a contemporary painter, whose works are increasingly abstract, interjected with intermittent flat or figurative elements. His paintings concentrate on the vigorous force of the painting gesture, with reverberating billowing fields which create their own energy and atmosphere. Tu'u is a Sydney-based artist of Samoan, Chinese, Tokelau and Tuvalu descent. He has exhibited in Sydney and New Zealand and his work is included in various collections including Artbank Australia, The James Wallace Arts Trust, The University of Canterbury. Tu'u is represented by King Street Gallery on William in Sydney, Bowen Galleries in Wellington.
Catalogues
Neil Frazer
Telly Tu'u
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Third Sydney Exhibition: Euan Macleod and Vanessa Stockard
Our third exhibition featured artists Euan Macleod and Vanessa Stockard.
Euan's work is featured in prominent collections across the trans-Tasman region and globally, and he has received numerous prestigious accolades over the course of his career, including the Archibald Prize (1999) and the Sulman Prize (2001). This exhibition showcases 36 of his works.
Complementing Euan's artworks are 58 pieces, including 21 self-portraits, by young career artist and two time Archibald Prize finalist Vanessa Stockard. Vanessa is a still life, portrait and landscape painter with an upcoming exhibition in Miami.
Catalogues
Euan Macleod
Vanessa Stockard
Vanessa Stockard (self-portraits)
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Second Sydney Exhibition: Jason Benjamin and Nick Collerson
Our second exhibition featured artists Jason Benjamin and Nick Collerson.
A five-time Archibald Prize finalist, Jason's work has attracted considerable international acclaim. Many of the 32 artworks on display at the firm's 1 Bligh Street premises were completed especially for The Clayton Utz Art Partnership exhibition. Jason's last commercial gallery exhibition in Sydney was in 2014.
Nick is a young career artist who teaches art at the National Art School and was the 2014 winner of the Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize. 32 of his artworks on were on display during our second exhibition.
Nick also participated in the firm's artist-in-residence, giving Clayton Utz people and clients the opportunity to see him at work.
Catalogues
Jason Benjamin
Nick Collerson
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.
Inaugural Exhibition: Wendy Sharpe and Clara Adolphs
Our inaugural exhibition featured the internationally acclaimed and award-winning Wendy Sharpe and the exciting emerging artist Clara Adolphs.
It featured 37 artworks by figurative artist Wendy Sharpe. An internationally acclaimed artist, Wendy has received numerous prestigious scholarships and awards, including The Sulman Prize (1986) and The Archibald Prize (1996).
Wendy's exhibition was complemented by 30 artworks from Clara Adolphs, a figurative artist who is emerging across the Australian arts scene and was the recent recipient of the 2017 Eva Breuer Travelling Art Scholarship.
Clara also participated in the firm's inaugural Artist-in-Residence program, regularly working from a modified workspace at the firm's Sydney premises, which is renowned for its design and use of natural light.
Catalogues
Wendy Sharpe
Clara Adolphs
Please contact Max Germanos from 333 Art Projects if you wish to purchase any of the artworks featured in the catalogues.