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.
— News and Events
Sadie Chandler at UQ Art Museum
– Saturday 9th November 2019
Sadie Chandler's 1996 work 'Melt #3' is included in UQ Art Museum's exhibition 'Workshop'
Lynne Boyd and Ron Robertson-Swann at Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
– Wednesday 3rd July 2019
Stephen McLaughlan Gallery celebrates 25 years! Lynne Boyd and Ron Robertson-Swann are included in the group show curated by Stephen Wickham to mark the occasion.
Norma Redpath at RMIT Gallery
– Thursday 20th June 2019
To mark this year's centenary of the founding of the Wiemar Bauhaus, RMIT Gallery will host an exhibition celebrating the contribution of European trained artists, architects and designers who came to Australia after the Second World War and took up teaching positions at RMIT. Charles Nodrum Gallery is proud to celebrate the works of Norma Redpath.
Vault's 40th Anniversary
– Monday 26th March 2018
The Age's Ray Edgar writes 'from yellow peril to pure gold: 40 years on, Vault has been vindicated' and of the sculpture's continuing influence on Australian designers.
Clive Murray-White at Gippsland Art Gallery
– Sunday 18th March 2018
Murray-White's marble sculpture “Flying Mountain-i” is included in IMAGINE, the inaugural exhibition in Gippsland's new gallery.
Syd Ball in the 21st Biennale of Sydney
– Friday 16th March 2018
SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium and Engagement will run from 16 March - 11 June
Clive Murray White's Smoke Bomb Sculpture restaged
– Saturday 10th March 2018
University of Queensland Art Museum are re-staging Murray-White's famous smoke performance.
The Gallery will re-open for 2018 on Tuesday 13th February
– Saturday 23rd December 2017
The Gallery will close on the 23rd of December for the summer break, re-opening full-time on the 13th of February 2018.
Emails and phone messages will be checked weekly over this period.
Best wishes for the season from Charles, Nati, Kate & Toby (the dog).
Sadie Chandler at ACCA till 25 March 2018
– Friday 15th December 2017
Sadie has been commissioned to install her wallpaper along an 11m wall at the Centre as part of the exhibition 'Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism'.
Arthur Wicks' 'Armoured Peace Car' at CCAS
– Saturday 11th November 2017
An exhibition at Canberra Contemporary Art Space that showcases contemporary Australian kinetic art, curated by Alexander Boynes.
The Void. Visible. at Deakin Uni Art Gallery
– Wednesday 1st November 2017
An exhibition of works by Stephen Wickham, Stephen McCarthy, Andrew Christofides and Wilma Tabacco to be opened by Charles Nodrum.
Tom Alberts & Shane Jones - Finalists in Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize
– Thursday 26th October 2017
Best of luck to Tom Alberts and Shane Jones, finalists in this year's Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize. Join us for the announcement at Monsalvat on Thursday 26 October.
Kristin Headlam in Every Brilliant Eye at the NGV
– Sunday 1st October 2017
Drawn from the NGV collection, 'Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s' explores a decade in Australian art.
Sadie Chandler & David Harley in Coney Island at Counihan Gallery
– Thursday 28th September 2017
Curated by Jane O'Neill at Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, this group exhibition includes emerging and established artists working with the language of abstract painting.
Frank Hodgkinson: Sense of Place
– Sunday 10th September 2017
A survey exhibition of the artist's work that explores his connections to Spain, New Guinea and Arnhem Land at Burrinja Gallery, Upwey.
Stanislaus Rapotec at Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest
– Saturday 26th August 2017
A painting of Stan Rapotec's is included in Penrith's Spring Exhibition Suite: Emu Island - Modernism in Place, celebrating 75 years of Modernist art and living.
Unexpected Correspondence: A Review by Jane Eckett
– Saturday 26th August 2017
Jane Eckett reviews the exhibition Elwyn Lynn & Sidney Nolan: A Joint Centenary for MEMO
Lynne Boyd in States of Being: The Elemental Importance of Water
– Wednesday 9th August 2017
Curated by Dr Anne Bennett, this group exhibition explores the handling of water in the practices of nine different artists.
Thoughtlines - The Art of Ruark Lewis 1982 - 2014
– Saturday 5th August 2017
SNO Publications launches Thoughtlines, the first complete monograph on Ruark's work.
Tom Alberts in The Salon des Refusés
– Saturday 29th July 2017
Tom Alberts's portrait of actor, architect, painter, life model and circus performer Paul McCluskey is included in the Salon des Refusès - the alternative selection from the yearly Archibald and Wynne Prize entrants - held each year at the National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery.
Richard Dunn & George Johnson at Orange Regional Gallery
– Saturday 8th July 2017
Recent work by Richard Dunn and George Johnson feature in 'Artist Profile - Australasian Painters 2007 - 2017'.
George Johnson & Richard Dunn in 'Call of the Avant Garde'
– Wednesday 5th July 2017
Works by George Johnson and Richard Dunn feature in 'Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art' at Heide Museum of Modern Art
Gallery Artists at the VCA
– Friday 16th June 2017
Sadie Chandler, David Harley, Tom Alberts, Lynne Boyd & Jan Murray all have work in the VCA's 9 x 5 NOW Exhibition
Gerry Bell writes up David Harley's exhibition 'free-form propositions #2'
– Friday 9th June 2017
Gerry Bell has published a review of David Harley's current exhibition on his online blog 'Melbourne Art Seen'
The Culture Concept Circle features David Rankin
– Wednesday 7th June 2017
David Rankin's exhibitions at the Charles Nodrum Gallery and Mossgreen Gallery have been written up by Carolyn McDowall of The Culture Concept Circle.
Samara Adamson-Pinczewski in Chromatopia
– Wednesday 31st May 2017
Chromatopia: an exhibition on the history of colour.
Samara Adamson-Pinczewski: St Kevin's Art Prize Finalist
– Friday 26th May 2017
Congratulations to Samara whose three paintings Unanchored, Breaking Point & Prickly Pair have been shortlisted for the St Kevin’s College Art Prize.
Visions of Utopia
– Sunday 21st May 2017
Curated by Andrew Christofides, this group exhibition includes works by 30 Australian artists who pursued - and continue to pursue - pure forms of abstraction.