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Abstraction 19

02 November - 23 November, 2019

Painterly, textural and symbolic abstraction of the 1950s and 60s.
  • Introduction by Charles Nodrum

    This exhibition offers an insight into the shifting nature of tastes and styles.  Many of the artists in the show were covered fairly extensively in Bernard Smith’s Australian Painting (1962) and Robert Hughes’ The Art of Australia (1966).  Whilst coverage was continued by James Gleeson, Ross Luck and Christopher Heathcote ... Read More

Exhibition Catalogue

Screen Wall

Norma Redpath

1967

Bronze, 11.80 x 15.40 x 7.00

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Untitled

Peter Upward

1961

acrylic on board, 93.90 x 126.30

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Untitled

Paul Partos

1965

oil on canvas, 152.00 x 152.00

SOLD

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Carcass (Boeuf)

Stacha Halpern

c. 1960

oil on canvas, 120.00 x 120.00

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Paysage - Landscape

Stacha Halpern

1962

oil on canvas, 115.50 x 147.50

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Man Obsessed with the Sun

John Olsen

1964

oil on board, 122.00 x 134.00

SOLD

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Composition 2

Margo Lewers

1960 - 1965

oil and sand on board, 75.00 x 137.00

SOLD

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Night and Day

Margo Lewers

c. 1965

oil on board, 57.00 x 91.00

SOLD

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Carvings

Maximilian Feuerring

c. 1960

oil on board, 90.00 x 59.50

SOLD

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On the Sandover

Sheila McDonald

1962

mixed media on board, 93.00 x 123.00

SOLD

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Evocation to Goya

Ignacio Marmol

1965

oil and mixed media on board, 43.50 x 58.50

SOLD

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Chronos

Charles Reddington

1961

oil on canvas, 122.00 x 157.00

SOLD

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Oakey Creek - night

William Peascod

1963

mixed media on board, 122.00 x 91.00

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Deya de Mallorca

Frank Hodgkinson

1960

polyvinyl acetate, hessian on canvas, 147.00 x 97.00

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Paradox of Unreality

Carl Plate

1960

PVA on canvas, 99.00 x 60.60

SOLD

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Coastal Landscape

Michael Taylor

1969

oil and enamel on canvas laid on aluminium, 203.00 x 152.50

SOLD

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Morning Pier

Dawn Sime

1959 - 1960

oil on board, 91.00 x 122.00

SOLD

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Typhoon

Sheila McDonald

c. 1960

oil on board, 50.00 x 57.00

SOLD

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Abstract

Lorri Whiting

1958

oil on canvas, 100.00 x 70.00

SOLD

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Guadix

Peter Kaiser

1957

PVA, hessian & string on hessian, 130.00 x 96.00

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Paisaje (landscape)

Jose Guevara

1961

oil on board, 60.00 x 100.00

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(Untitled)

Anthony Underhill

oil on canvas, 114.00 x 122.00

SOLD

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Painting April No. 2

Anton Holzner

1964

oil on canvas, 172.00 x 146.00

SOLD

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Before me floats an image, man or shade, more shade than man, more image than a shade (Yeats)

Leonard Hessing

1962

enamel on board, 135.00 x 120.00

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(Untitled)

Tom Gleghorn

c. 1960

oil on board, 122.00 x 121.00

SOLD

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Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.