The Artist
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Tony Coleing
Venus de Bondi, 1989 - 1990
acrylic on canvas (unstretched)
133.00 x 536.00
signed, titled & dated on reverse
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 18 March - 10 April 2010, no. 35
Note:
“A recent study of twenty-nine locations around Australia found that for a mid-range sea level rise of 50 centimeters, extreme sea level events that used to happen every ten years are likely to occur every ten days by 2100. On average, Australia will experience a roughly 300-fold increase in inundation. This means that areas that are currently impacted once every centrury will be flooded several times each year with a sea level rise of 50 centimeters, with the greatest risk in the Sydney region. A sea level rise of 1.1 meters (a high-end scenario for 2100) would expose more than $226 billion worth of coastal assets, including infrastructure and homes, to inundation and erosion hazards. According to the Climate Council’s 2014 coastal risk assessment report, if the threat of sea level rise is ignored, by 2050 combined global losses from coastal flooding and land subsidence are projected to rise to US$1 trillion per year, around the size of the entire Australian economy. This future would reconfigure our magnificent coastlines and seriously undermine our ability to enjoy this incredibly blessed aspect of Australian life. A fundamental part of our national identity is washing away, as we look on from an ever-eroding shoreline.”
Gergis, Sunburnt Country…, MUP, 2018, p. 212
Further works by the Artist
Idea for sculpture
Tony Coleing
1974
screenprint, printed in colour, from multiple stencils, 50.60 x 77.20
Price: $450
Watch the stranger down at ranger
Tony Coleing
1979
two colour lithograph on paper, 29.50 x 38.00
Price: $350
Or, another perfect Queensland
Tony Coleing
1986 - 1987
linocut on paper, edition 10/20, 45.00 x 54.00
Helping my Koala Across the Road
Tony Coleing
1986
etching with aquatint on paper, edition 15/15, 56.00 x 65.00
Girl on Adrian's Chair
Tony Coleing
1985
dry point on acetate plate, edition 9/10, 28.00 x 16.00
Tahiti-Perle du Pacifique
Tony Coleing
1984
etching with aquatint on paper, edition 14/24, 56.00 x 75.00
Think I'll have fish and chips
Tony Coleing
1983
Lithograph on paper, edition 24/25, 57.00 x 76.00
The Birthday Party or the Misguided Mussel
Tony Coleing
1983
etching on paper, edition 24/25, 56.00 x 66.00
Hey Leon, What's going on?
Tony Coleing
1978
etching on paper, edition 20/30, 38.00 x 56.00
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.