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GALLERY NEWS & RELOCATION IN 2014

A CorriLee Foundation Fund Raising Event || TO BE OPENED BY EDMUND CAPON

Corrilee Foundation
one-night-only fundraiser
Thursday 28 November 2013

A CorriLee Foundation Fund Raising Event
TO BE OPENED BY EDMUND CAPON

'Nana No Hats' (edited by Ita Buttrose) Cook Book Launch for Alzheimer's Australia including a Food Photographic exhibition of Laura Robin's work

Corrilee Foundation
one-night-only fundraiser
Thursday 28 November

A CorriLee Foundation Fund Raising Event
TO BE OPENED BY EDMUND CAPON

'Nana No Hats' (edited by Ita Buttrose) Cook Book Launch for Alzheimer's Australia including a Food Photographic exhibition of Laura Robin's work

- See more at: http://www.richardmartinart.com.au/pages/exhibitions.php#sthash.i0j1dh68.dpuf

Corrilee Foundation
one-night-only fundraiser
Thursday 28 November

A CorriLee Foundation Fund Raising Event
TO BE OPENED BY EDMUND CAPON

'Nana No Hats' (edited by Ita Buttrose) Cook Book Launch for Alzheimer's Australia including a Food Photographic exhibition of Laura Robin's work

- See more at: http://www.richardmartinart.com.au/pages/exhibitions.php#sthash.i0j1dh68.dpuf

Corrilee Foundation
one-night-only fundraiser
Thursday 28 November

A CorriLee Foundation Fund Raising Event
TO BE OPENED BY EDMUND CAPON

'Nana No Hats' (edited by Ita Buttrose) Cook Book Launch for Alzheimer's Australia including a Food Photographic exhibition of Laura Robin's work

- See more at: http://www.richardmartinart.com.au/pages/exhibitions.php#sthash.i0j1dh68.dpuf

Corrilee Foundation
one-night-only fundraiser
Thursday 28 November

A CorriLee Foundation Fund Raising Event
TO BE OPENED BY EDMUND CAPON

'Nana No Hats' (edited by Ita Buttrose) Cook Book Launch for Alzheimer's Australia including a Food Photographic exhibition of Laura Robin's work

- See more at: http://www.richardmartinart.com.au/pages/exhibitions.php#sthash.i0j1dh68.dpuf

Artist Feature | Gordon Richards | The Brag Magazine

Gordon Richards

Slippery When Wet II

acrylic on linen
137 x 167 cm
- See more at: http://www.richardmartinart.com.au/pages/enlargement_exhibitions.php?current=3&workID=4190&exhibitionID=158&artistID=22#sthash.9LpvX29b.dpuf

Slippery When Wet

                                         [VISUALARTS] OnTheMove ByLouiseJeckells

Victorian chef-cum-painter Gordon Richards’ latest artworks depict movement in the still space. The artworks were developed after Richards’ partner had an unfortunate ice-skating accident, which gave life to the name of the exhibition, Slippery When Wet. “Last Christmas I was right behind my partner when she had an accident. She flew, quite gracefully, into the air, and landed very awkwardly on the ice.” This sparked the initial sketches of the artwork, which later became the paintings you’ll see currently on display.

Richards’ new show at Richard Martin Art in Woollahra demonstrates how prevailing movement can be in a still space. Universally, the wheel or circle refers to a constant state of motion. And here, he uses the unconstrained human form to contrast with the mechanised bike frames and wheels.

Richards is an exuberant lover of simplicity. His life as a chef was hectic and unstoppable, but his now 20-year career as a painter has brought nothing but elation and personal freedom. The words ‘personal freedom’ follow Richards throughout his painting career as the transition between pieces and exhibitions are very indicative of his relaxed lifestyle. “Things in our everyday life always affect me. I don’t question what contributes to pieces. My work can be a bit nostalgic and this exhibition is no different.”

The women who appear in several of the artist’s past exhibitions, are again featured in Slippery When Wet. The women are usually a mix between his partner and daughter. “I don’t think about what or whom I am drawing at the time and then when

I am done, I can see that person.” Richards once painted a whole series of women drinking around a table.

In the initial stages of his current body of work, it was tough for Richards. Despite the initial idea being formed, he painted over everything he originally drew. “Painting for me requires a lot of thinking and a lot of downtime where I am not physically creating anything. But there’s a long process before I am completely happy with the finished piece. I usually draw everything and then I try and work fairly quickly to get it out and painted. The next painting is always better than the last. The next show is only as good as the final painting.” Richards sees this as a wonderful way of self-evaluation. This mode of thinking reflects Richards’ past life as a chef – their craft is only as good as their last dish, right?

Richards talks about Slippery When Wet as though the paintings were always going to come to fruition. “My partner painted so that’s how I started. It became addictive and I’d get an adrenaline rush ... I found it very similar to cooking, which was wonderful.” Richards notes the similarities between food and painting, “both are dependent on colour and texture and you must have a good eye for both of these things.”

The Brag Magazine / The Brag.com - [VISUALARTS] OnTheMove ByLouiseJeckells October /November 2013

 

Gordon Richards

Slippery When Wet II

acrylic on linen
137 x 167 cm
- See more at: http://www.richardmartinart.com.au/pages/enlargement_exhibitions.php?current=3&workID=4190&exhibitionID=158&artistID=22#sthash.9LpvX29b.dpuf

Gordon Richards, Slippery When Wet II, acrylic on linen,137 x 167 cm

 
Exhibition: 2 November – 20 November 2013

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE ONLINE CATALOGUE FOR GORDON RICHARDS

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE ONLINE EXHIBITION FOR GORDON RICHARDS

For further details and images please contact the gallery

GALLERY HOURS: TUESDAY - SATURDAY 11AM TO 6PM, SUNDAY 12 - 5PM

 

NOW SHOWING | GORDON RICHARDS | Slippery When Wet | 2013

Australian Cows Star in 'Surrealistic' Escape - USA TODAY & ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA

 GALLERY ARTIST FEATURE | ANDREW BAINES

 CLICK ABOVE TO WATCH

A black and white herd of Australian dairy cows have been lead to a beach in the name of art. The animals are part of an unique work of art created by surrealist artist Andrew Baines - as seen on USA TODAY, 25th October 2013

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Surreal moment of bovine beauty at 
Geelong beach. Artist Andrew Baines photographed cows standing in the water with handlers off a Geelong beach in an unfamiliar outing by the seaside. 
- as seen on ABC NEW AUSTRALIA, 21 October 2013

 

CLICK TO VIEW AVAILABLE 

WORK BY ANDREW BAINES

GALLERY NEWS | CONGRATULATIONS

CRAIG RUDDY | NEW WORK | 2013 | ONLINE CATALOGUE

CRAIG RUDDY | NEW WORK | 2013 | Online Catalogue 

DIANA WATSON | RONDO | 2013

 

DIANA WATSON

RONDO

14 SEPTEMBER - 9 OCTOBER 2013

 

Diana Watson's rich palette and layered glazes give a jewel-like quality to her exceptional paintings, evoking the renaissance painters with her sumptuous still life arrangements and glorious flowers. In keeping with the classic allusions in her works, her current exhibition at Richard Martin Art, 'Rondo' references Rondo a word used in music, most often in reference to a musical form.

view exhibition online

STOCKROOM SALE

 

 Many artworks featured on our website are included in the sale. 

Please contact the gallery for information and sale prices. 

 info@richardmartinart.com.au (02) 9327 6525

WALDEMAR KOLBUSZ

RICHARD MARTIN ART PRESENTS

WALDEMAR KOLBUSZ

13 – 31 July 2013

Perth-based painter Waldemar Kolbusz takes as his central artistic agenda the language of colour and form. His deeply expressionistic paintings emphasise dynamic, energetic gesture in contrast to a reflective cerebral focus on more open fields of biomorphic colour. Inspired by the New York School greats Rothko and Motherwell, Kolbusz’s work resists formal categorisation by eluding a static sense time and place.

Kolbusz’s latest body of work at Richard martin Art marks the artist’s heroic vision of human irrationality and vulnerability. The simplified, astute geometry and large-format of Kolbusz’s work aligns with an exodus of pictorial means to foreground the elemental impact of colour-dominated fields. In violent opposition to previous exhibitions, this new body of work foregoes any reference to memory, association, nostalgia, legend and myth, instead relying on viewers’ freedom of interpretation to generate reactive feeling.

“I am an expressive painter primarily concerned with employing challenging combinations of colour and shape. My preoccupation is to paint works which generate an original awareness of colour, an element which saturates our existence,” says Kolbusz. (2008)

Kolbusz has been painting for over a decade; in 1996 at the age of 28, he left his then career in accounting to revisit his passion for the arts. Today his work is exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally and he continues to enjoy critical acclaim in today’s competitive artistic landscape. One of Kolbusz’s most meritable achievements thus far was his collaboration with renowned designer Aurelio Costarella in April 2013. Kolbusz interpreted the designer’s summer 13/14 collection palette to produce a series of four works that were subsequently used as backdrops to the designer’s multi-platform installation-come-fashion parade at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 2013.

VIEWTIME-LAPSE PAINTING FILM
 

of Waldemar Kolbusz painting works for the Costarella collaboration for Mercedes Fashion Week Sydney 2013

 Richard Martin Art has represented Waldemar Kolbusz since 2008. His work is held in several high profile corporate, public and private collections in Australia, New York, Brunei, Germany and Spain.

Stephanie Tetu's latest exhibition, FOLLY – age, opens on Wednesday 12 June

 Stephanie Tetu, Red Morning, 2013, oil on canvas, 122 x 101cm. Courtesy of artist and Richard Martin Art.

For her third solo show at Richard Martin Art, passionate artist Stephanie Tetu unveils a joyous celebration of light-filled floral paintings that enjoy the refined use of colour and stroke.

Tetu's latest body of work FOLLY – age takes in its stride a delicate approach to the vulnerable nature of flowers and leaves. At the core of the artist's work is an understanding of life's fragility and the fleeting beauty we find in the natural environment of the everyday.

"I am inspired by fragments of life, by beauty that is short lived, by the constant cycle of birth and death. My subjects illustrate this saga with a mixture of grace and drama," says Tetu, "My inspiration for this exhibition is a beautiful quote from Leonard Cohen, 'There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.'"

Richard Martin Art is delighted to invite you to the opening of FOLLY – age on the evening of Wednesday 12 June from 6-8pm.

Generously sponsored by Santa Vittoria Acqua Minerale & The Woollahra Hotel

Stay tuned for an upcoming Q&A with Tetu where she tell's Richard Martin Art about her practice, latest exhibition and plans for the future. Visit our Facebook page for more updates.

#fwp | first world problem | anthony bennett | new exhibition

" this exhibition is based on a firm belief in the philosophy that your day can only be enhanced by construction of a sentence that contains the word rhinoceros. There are, according to estimates, only 3000 black rhino left on the planet and poachers are killing 2 per day as horn prices exceed that of gold. This demands a conversation at every opportunity. "   a.b 2013

FINAL WEEK || MUST SEE || PETER HICKEY

Renowned painter and master printmaker, 

Hickey’s recent works imitate his love for

nature and  animals. Years of drawing at 

Taronga Zoo have provided the direction 

for new works which are now on display

within the MLC Centre pop-up gallery.
On display until 28 April, Peter Hickey is 

the third and final artist showcased 

in the pop-up gallery space.

Please note: this exhibition is showing at 

The MLC Centre
Corner of King and Castlereagh Streets,
Martin Place, Sydney NSW Australia

PETER HICKEY - SHOWING - MLC POP-UP GALLERY

Renowned painter and master printmaker, 

Hickey’s recent works imitate his love for

nature and  animals. Years of drawing at 

Taronga Zoo have provided the direction 

for new works which are now on display

within the MLC Centre pop-up gallery.
On display until 28 April, Peter Hickey is 

the third and final artist showcased 

in the pop-up gallery space.

Please note: this exhibition is showing at 

The MLC Centre
Corner of King and Castlereagh Streets,
Martin Place, Sydney NSW Australia

RICHARD MARTIN SOLO | Danks Street, Depot II Gallery

RICHARD ALLEN | NEW EXHIBITION | MARCH 2013

 

SEASONS GREETINGS

A LOOK INSIDE : YOSI MESSIAH - last show of the year

 YOSI MESSIAH  ||  Q&A  || DECEMBER 2012

 

Can you give us some background to how you became a visual artist?

My first memories are from age 7 where I was fascinated with cartoons. I would sit in front of the black and white TV and draw the characters. My mind would be racing with ideas on what colours to use while drawing. Still at an early age, in all forms of creativity, I would use my hands and imagination to express myself.

When first arriving in Australia I was in awe of the beauty of the landscape and light whilst traveling. I settled in Sydney where I started a jewelry business allowing me to use stones to translate this beauty and express these colours into wearable art. 

When did you start, why did you start?

While still working with Jewellery I found the need to expand my artistic process and the need to express myself on a larger scale.

It was in 1996 I started my official fine art studies at Julian Ashton School of Art and then with Sydney based artist Charlie Shead.

Where do you get your inspiration for each work from?

I find inspiration in all forms of life - be it the city and its fascinating shapes, in nature with its beauty and freedom, or looking back at the rich tapestry of history. Still I'm amazed how colour, texture and form are such a big part of my life.

Other artists that inspire you?  - Do they change overtime/ year to year?

I have found inspiration in artist such as Aida Tomescu, Michael Johnson, Michal Cusack, Adam Cullen and Fred Williams, along with the old masters.

Like Nature these inspirations change and every year I discover new artists from all form that inspire me.

Where do you paint and what is your ideal routine/ daytime… or night owl

I paint in my studio and am defiantly a day person; I find that this is when I can work with the most energy.

What is your painting process, colours, layers and movement seem to be key processes, can you tell us about this?

My painting process is very energetic and labor intensive. In this body of work ‘Colour Spill’ there are four main elements

Be it the starkness of white or the vibrancy of a colour, establishing the background is the first process. The second is what I call the ‘action’ process, layering colours, mixing mediums of oils and varnishes on the surface creating shape and form. What’s considered as the core or heart of the work.

Process three is where the movement and expressive line work comes in. Fluid paint is put above the colourful shapes below; creating a sense of vibration.

The finale stage is where all my early training comes through. Using a small brush I create marks that allows the symphony to start and bring all the stages together.

How did you arrive at the title of this current show?

'Colour Spill' is reflective of the paint that flows and moves on the canvas.

View exhibition

Yosi Messiah‘s ‘Colour Spill’ is on display from 1-12 December at Richard Martin Art, 

98 Holdsworth Street, Woollahra.  Enquiries 9327 6525.

Now Showing | Last Show of The Year