SAINT CLOCHE PRESENTS

19TH DECEMBER - 21ST JANUARY Evi O

Evi O is an award-winning book designer and self-taught artist, most renowned for her abstract paintings. She works from her design studio in Surry Hills, Sydney. With a curious eye and mind, she is constantly exploring and observing her surroundings. To her, art practise is personal, honest and happy.

The brief JET SET came at the most serendipitous timing for artist Evi O. She has just moved to a Marrickville studio that used to be an office for Ansett Airlines. Everyday she sees all kinds of planes flying in and out of Sydney airports from her studio windows, and while she has some fear of flying, at the same time planes and jets fascinate her.

These two pieces are Evi O's abstract take on being up in the air, looking out of a plane's window. Sunrise is inspired by a recent travel to her favourite place on earth, whilst Destination: Adventure depicts that calm, yet exciting, feeling from looking at a sky full of clouds and being a part of what seems to be an infinite space.

http://www.evi-o.com/ Tokyo Sunrise Acrylic on panel @evi_o Hand Painted Frames 56 x 56 cm $1800 EVI O

Destination Adventure Acrylic on panel Hand Painted Frames 120 x 91 cm $3800 Hannah Nowlan

Hannah Nowlan completed her Bachelors in Fine Art Drawing and Printmaking with the Victorian College of the Arts in 2015 before participating in a two-month International Artist Residency at The University of Portugal, Faculty of Fine Arts Lisbon in 2016. Hannah now creatively works out of her home-based-studio as a visual artist and partner in her family business ‘Grain of Descent’.

Hannah’s practice attempts to communicate relaxed and therapeutic atmospheres of Australia’s vast natural landscapes. Her recent work continues to explore the coastline as well as new motifs inspired by mythological narratives and ancient legends of Portugal. A primitive language is formed through her paintings that speak directly of person and place.

For ‘Jet Set’, Hannah draws from a mystical, space-age approach to the concept, with an emphasis on the statement “from where I’d rather be”. Hannah’s collection harks back to modernist influences whilst remaining distinctly contemporary and fresh, as she explores the seductive landscapes of destination hot spots of Capri and Rio. The series explores the symbols of planets, planes, disc’s, wings, waves and other-worldly forms. Mythical narratives of endless seas and skies, suns and moons, curves and archways unite this exciting new body of work. Flew Too Close To The Sun Oil on Italian Linen, Clear Transparent Prime, framed inTasmanian Blackwood by www.grainofdescent.com.au Grain of Descent 92 x 122 x 5.6 cm Instagram: @hannahnowlan $2750 HANNAH NOWLAN

Cream on Chrome Golden Flux Oil on Italian Linen, Clear Transparent Oil on Italian Linen, Clear Prime, framed inTasmanian Blackwood by Transparent Prime, framed Grain of Descent inTasmanian Blackwood by 595 x 595 x 56 mm Grain of Descent $1080 595 x 595 x 56 mm $1080 HANNAH NOWLAN

Heat Wave Three Moons Away Oil on Italian Linen, Clear Oil on Italian Linen, Clear Transparent Transparent Prime, framed Prime, framed inTasmanian Blackwood by inTasmanian Blackwood by Grain of Descent Grain of Descent 330 x 430 x 56 mm 330 x 430 x 56 mm $620 $620 HANNAH NOWLAN

Zephyr New Moon, New Sun Oil on Italian Linen, Clear Transparent Oil on Italian Linen, Clear Prime, framed inTasmanian Blackwood by Transparent Prime, framed Grain of Descent inTasmanian Blackwood by 330 x 430 x 56 mm Grain of Descent $620 330 x 430 x 56 mm $620 CAROLINE WALLS

Caroline Walls is an Australian artist working across a number of media, including painting, drawing, soft sculpture and print-making. She is a visual artist whom creates work with a skilled and fuid approach to aesthetics, with her creative practice crossing continents to New York and where she worked as an art director and designer in creative agencies for luxury fashion and lifestyle brands. On returning to Melbourne, Australia, Walls has established herself as a visual artist in her studio in Carlton North. She has a First-class Honours degree in Visual Communication & Design from Swinburne University and a Post-Graduate Certifcate of Visual Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts.

As with all of my paintings I’ve taken on a reductive process, breaking down detail and decoration to heighten the expressive power of the overall piece. The curves and line of the female figures swimsuit-clad body are exaggerated through the use of dramatic angles, not unlike the retro-futuristic architecture of the time as her body dips off the edge of the pool into the deep blueness of the water. A sense of minimalism and the bold planes of colour create a strong graphic contrast to the water against the silhouette of the body that would have been lounging by the pool moments earlier in the luxury of the jet-set lifestyle. The rich red clay-toned swimsuit is representative of the bold, intensely privileged lifestyle of the rich and famous and the deep midnight blue of the water acts as a node to the underlying sinister hedonism of the time.

Poolside and Her www.carolinewalls.com Synthetic Polymer on Canvas, Framed in @carolinewallsart Natural Tasmanian Oak 110 x 135 cm $3800 CAROLINE WALLS

Curved Sunbather Runaround Charcoal on paper, float mount framed in Natural Charcoal on paper, float mount framed in Charcoal on paper, float mount framed in Tasmanian Oak Natural Tasmanian Oak Natural Tasmanian Oak 37.5 x 49.5 cm 37.5 x 49.5 cm 37.5 x 49.5 cm $680 $680 $680 ELIZA GOSSE Eliza Gosse’s paintings depict Australian Suburbia. Working out of a lineage of Australian artists who have debunked the stereotypes of suburbia under a “super flat” lens, Gosse rather comes to her painting from a background of architecture. Studying at the University of Sydney before completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at the National Art School (2017), the mantra of “form follows function” finds renewed validity in her paintings. Eliza Gosse’s Jet set series depicts a style of architecture from the post war period - The International Style - Gosse’s paintings use flat planes of colour, clean geometric forms, and play off utopian architectural ideals with a nostalgic inflection. The International style is built on dramatic angles; on concrete and steel and wide-eyed technological optimism. She plays this out in her colour palette; washed out, chalky and neutral, a reflection on the industrial materials used in these buildings. @elizagosse www.elizagosse.com Case Study House #20 Oil on Canvas, Framed in White Timber Frame 52 x 42 cm $660 ELIZA GOSSE

Fur Coats Amongst the Fir Trees Jiving in Villa Jongskollen Oil on Canvas, Framed in White Timber Frame Oil on Canvas, Framed in White Timber Frame 52 x 42 cm 52 x 42 cm $660 $660 ELIZA GOSSE

Retro Orange Lounge with Norfolk Pine Yellow Poles Oil on Canvas, Framed in White Timber Oil on Canvas, Framed in White Timber Frame Frame 52 x 42 cm 52 x 42 cm $660 $660 ELIZA GOSSE

Skinny Dipping in Fitspatrick - Leland House Pinstriped Oil on Canvas, Framed in White Timber Frame Oil on Canvas, Framed in White Timber Frame 52 x 42 cm 52 x 42 cm $660 $660 ELIZA GOSSE

Room Two Room One Oil on Board, Framed in White Timber Frame Oil on Board, Framed in White Timber Frame 22 x 30 cm 22 x 30 cm $385 $385 Milly Dent

Milly Dent is a ceramic designer whose work explores the material of porcelain through uniquely handcrafted, exclusive ceramic goods. Having recently completed an artist residency in Arita, the birthplace of porcelain in Japan, Milly further explores the material by using both traditional and contemporary ways of making.

Milly Dent’s new work forJet Set draws on mid century architectural ceramics to create a series of footed vessels from Australian porcelain and pigments. Her signature marbling technique has been developed in new colour ways, to create structural totem-style works which are both sculptural and utilitarian

@millydent https://millydent.com/ MILLY DENT

Mint Hourglass Sepia Totem Hemisphere Jet-Black Totem Hemisphere Australian Porcelain, Pigment, Clear Gloss Australian Porcelain, Pigment, Clear Gloss Australian Porcelain, Pigment, Clear Gloss Glaze Glaze Glaze 21 x 15 x 21 cm 20 x 15 x 20 cm 21 x 15 x 21 cm $240 $240 $240 Bec Smith

Bec Smith is a Melbourne-based artist who has practiced art and design in both Australia and overseas for over 20 years. She has always stayed particularly interested in abstract, non-objective, and colourfield paintings from the early part of the last century – a natural extension of a designer’s grounding in the early design language of the Bauhaus. Recently she has focused on creating bodies of work to exhibit, and had her first sold out solo show in December 2016, and just completed a joint exhibition with Hannah Fox in November 2017. This is her first Sydney exhibition.

For this series I looked toward an artist who is an influence on my art practice, Etel Adnan. Her work is firmly about place, memory, changing of light and landscape views. I channelled Bondi as a sense of ‘place’, past excursions, visits, and holidays. With the energy and activities over one day: a salute to the sun, a figure on the beach in the early hours, bodies in the sand, sails out in the deep, surfers in ‘blue hour’, and cliffs at dusk. A chronology of a living cultural destination.

“My works are realisations of actual and idealised situations about the dynamics of people translated into a painted static ‘freeze frame’. Whether a witnessed exchange, or an environment my paintings expose a particular moment in time for what it may be, or may become. Fiction, non-fiction, and multiple truths”.

Lone Bather http://www.becsmith.net/art/ Acrylic and Mixed Media on belle arti @b.ecsmith board, Framed in Tasmanian Oak 60 x 80 cm $1920 BEC SMITH

Group Bask Lay Dusk baths Acrylic and Mixed Media on belle arti board, Acrylic and Mixed Media on belle arti Framed in Tasmanian Oak Acrylic and Mixed Media on belle arti board, Framed in Tasmanian Oak board, Framed in Tasmanian Oak 60 x 80 cm 60 x 80 cm $1920 60 x 80 cm $1920 $1920 BEC SMITH

Salute to the Sun Sunset Acrylic and Mixed Media on belle arti Acrylic and Mixed Media on belle board, Framed in Tasmanian Oak arti board, Framed in Tasmanian Oak 60 x 80 cm 60 x 80 cm $1920 $1920 BEC SMITH

Blue Hour Surfers Deep Water Figs Acrylic and Mixed Media on belle arti Acrylic and Mixed Media on belle board, Framed in Tasmanian Oak arti board, Framed in Tasmanian Oak 60 x 80 cm 60 x 80 cm $1920 $1920 Tango Conway

Tango Conway is a visual artist working within sculpture, drawing and installation. Graduating from the National Art School in 2016 she was awarded the John Olsen Prize for Figure Drawing, the Jocelyn McMaughan Sketchbook Prize and shares the Sculpture by the sea Graduate Prize. Since then she has shown her work in various group shows and exhibited in this years Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi. As an emerging artist her practice evolves out of her firm footings in life drawing and continues to explore two dimensional and three dimensional territory.

For ‘Jet Set’ Tango has produced a series of wall mounted sculptures that take inspiration from 60’s minimalism and airline company logos. Using aluminium, a material familiar to her, she plays with aerodynamic forms and rhythmic patterns. This playfulness deliberately strays from the original, structural function that aluminium sheeting has in airplane design and instead, utilises the material for its sculptural integrity.

The painted surfaces of the sheeting uses colours from airline company logos. Inherently linked to memories of travel and our future destinations, these colours are not only branded logos but they are the visual stamp that marks a shift in modern culture.

Air travel became affordable and popular post WW2 at around the same time as the Minimalist movement was emerging in New York. Australian artists for the first time were able to travel freely and see in person the art being produced in New PSA Acrylic and enamel paint on aluminium York and Europe and could immediately respond. Minimalism was therefore able to 17x31cm reach new corners of the world and have a global influence, disseminating its $480 aesthetic values throughout our global culture.

Instagram: @tangoconway TANGO CONWAY

QANTAS Alitalia Enamel om Aluminium, Pop Rivets Enamel om Aluminium, Pop Rivets Enamel om Aluminium, Pop Rivets 30 x 30 cm 30 x 30 cm 34 x 34 cm $480 $480 $480 Elise Cameron-Smith

Elise Cameron-Smith began 2015 dedicated to crafting whimsical wooden treasures to share with the world. Dancing between titles of Sculptor, Miniature Boat Builder, and Furniture Maker, she works primarily in timber creating dreamy ocean inspired pieces, made to spark the adventurer in all of us.

After 2 and a half years of dedicated Design studies at the Enmore Design Centre, Elise enrolled herself in a 1 year intensive Fine Furniture Making course at the Sturt Craft Centre in The Southern Highlands in 2012. Upon entry she was awarded the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Bursary for her dedication. On completion of her studies she was awarded the Craft ACT Emerging Artist Award and was invited to exhibit her work at their 'Living in Design' exhibition the following year. In 2014, Elise then began a 1 year traineeship with Leon Sadubin, one of Australia's best Furniture Designer and Makers with over 30 years of experience and also worked for legendary Sculptor John Van Der Kolk.

In the beginning 2015, Elise began her solo voyage as an artist, craftswoman and maker. In her 2 years of trade she has been featured in Frankie, Donna Hay, Yen, Home Beautiful, The Captain & Real Living Magazine, and has sold her wares not only across Australia, but as far afield as Brazil, The Bahamas, Singapore & America.

For Jet Set, Elise has created two series of works - the Secret Lovers, and the Rocket Ships & Turbines. Turned on the lathe and then carved back, Elise has created collection of simple abstracts inspired by the clean lines & sophistication of mid century machinery. Elise added feminine details to the forms in celebration of the glamorous female Artists, Celebrities & Socialites who inspired the exhibition.

@elisecameronsmith http://www.elisecameron-smith.com.au/ ELISE CAMERON - SMITH

The Entrepreneur and the Actress The Air Hostesses The Pilot and the Diplomat White Beech, Finished in Beeswax White Beech, Finished in Beeswax White Beech, Finished in Beeswax 130 x 40 x 300 mm 70 x 40 x 250 mm 90 x 40 x 330 mm $340 $310 $350 ELISE CAMERON - SMITH

The Writer and the Hieress The President and the Assistant White Beech, Finished in Beeswax White Beech, Finished in Beeswax 110 x 40 x 270 mm 110 x 40 x 350 mm $340 $320 ELISE CAMERON - SMITH

From Left to Right:

Pelton White Beech, Finished in Beeswax 70 x 70 x 190 mm $110

Riva White Beech, Finished in Beeswax 120 x 50 x 330 mm $300

Boeing 720 White Beech, Finished in Beeswax 90 x 90 x 390 mm $365

Crossflow White Beech, Finished in Beeswax 100 x 100 x 270 mm $260

Scout White Beech, Finished in Beeswax 65 x 65 x 110 mm $95 ELISE CAMERON - SMITH

Riva Crossflow Loki White Beech, Finished in Beeswax White Beech, Finished in Beeswax White Beech, Finished in Beeswax 120 x 50 x 330 mm 100 x 100 x 270 mm 110 x 50 x 270 mm $300 $260 $170 ELISE CAMERON - SMITH

Atlas SLV-3 Pelton Red Stone White Beech, Finished in Beeswax White Beech, Finished in Beeswax White Beech, Finished in Beeswax 130 x 50 x 430 mm 70 x 70 x 190 mm 110 x 50 x 360 mm $370 $110 $285 ELISE CAMERON - SMITH

Douglas DC9 Saturn Boeing 720 White Beech, Finished in Beeswax White Beech, Finished in Beeswax White Beech, Finished in Beeswax 110 x 50 x 320 mm 80 x 50 x 220 mm 90 x 90 x 390 mm $150 $150 $365 ELISE CAMERON - SMITH

Titan Scout White Beech, Finished in Beeswax White Beech, Finished in Beeswax 90 x 90 x 370 mm 65 x 65 x 110 mm $370 $95 Catherine Tate

Catherine Tate is a contemporary ceramic artist with a background in graphics – and this eye for design influences her current work, bringing an appreciation of simple and striking colours and forms. Catherine’s work is informed by architecture and interiors – from contemporary minimalism to ancient architecture in rich decay.

With this work Catherine draws Inspiration from Modernism in Architecture and the iconic plane that flew across the Atlantic in the 1960’s and 70’s

Using simple graphic shapes and curves evocative of the contemporary AA museum in Rio and The theme building at LA Airport these vessels try and capture the fluid lines of the 60’s jet era.

These black and white vessels are reminiscent of male and female figures and are to be viewed in sets The family group, The male couple and The protective father

http://www.catherinetate.com.au/ @catherinetateartist

Jet Set 10 SPK Clay, Earthenware and Glaze 21 x 16 cm $220 CATHERINE TATE

Jet Set 13 - A, B, C and D Porcelain and glaze Varying sizes $100 each CATHERINE TATE

Jet Set 18 Jet Set 8 Jet Set 6 Jet Set 11 SPK Clay, Earthenware Raku Fired Slip cast and glaze SPK Glaze, Earthenware and Glaze 28 x 16 cm 16 x 16 cm and Glaze 21 x 8 cm $330 $235 22 x 14 cm $200 $200 CATHERINE TATE

Jet Set 16 Jet Set 9 BRT Clay, Stoneware, Slip and Glaze BRT Clay, Stoneware and Glaze 25 x 36 cm 21 x 33 cm $420 $330 CATHERINE TATE

Jet Set 5 Jet Set 11 Jet Set 4 SPK Glaze, Earthenware and Glaze SPK Glaze, Earthenware and Glaze SPK Clay, Stoneware, Slip and Glaze 21 x 8 cm 22 x 14 cm 19 x 13 cm $200 $200 $165 CATHERINE TATE

Jet Set 17 Jet Set 18 SPK Clay, Earthenware and Glaze SPK Clay, Earthenware and Glaze 20 x 13 cm 21 x 8 cm $200 $200 CATHERINE TATE

Jet Set 3 Jet Set 7 SPK Clay, Stoneware and Glaze SPK Clay, Stoneware, Slip, Underglaze and Glaze 21 x 17 cm 42 x 25 cm $220 $330 CATHERINE TATE

Jet Set 2 Jet Set 14 Jet Set 6 Slip cast and glaze Slip cast and Glaze Slip cast and glaze 20 x 17 cm 20 x 17 cm 16 x 16 cm $235 $220 $235