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JON PLAPP We Are Australian Optics, with Andrew Christofides, Liz Coats, Col Jordan, David Aspen, John Vickery, John Aslanidis and Cathy Blanchflower, Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney, 1998. The Bryan Niland Collection , Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains,1998. The Enduring Tradition: drawings by nine contemporary artists, with Alun Leach-Jones, Andrew Christofides, Maurice Cockrill, Peter Griffen, John McLatchie, Colin Lanceley, Brian Plummer, Aida Tomescu. Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, 1998-1999 (travelling to Gladstone, Rockhampton,Dalby, Bundaberg, Thuringowa and Cairns). JON PLAPP We Are Australian. Exhibition presented by We Are Australian Art Inc. and the Melbourne Festival in Association with the Victorian Arts Centre. 1999- 2000 It’s A Guitar Shaped World 6. Tamworth City Gallery, 2000 Exposition collective. Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2000 A Studio in Paris: Australian Artists at the Cite. S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 2001 Collage. Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra, 2001 Stephane Jacob. Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, 2001 Public and Corporate Collections Allen, Allen, & Hemsley, Sydney, Artbank Australia. Baker McKenzie, Sydney. Bliss Hospital, St Louis, USA. Burnie Art Gallery, Tasmania.Devonport Gallery, Tasmania. Hincks Treatment Centre, Toronto, Canada. Holmes á Court Collection, Perth. Mallesons, Melbourne. University of Sydney Union National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Western Mining Corporation, Melbourne. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale Civic Centre, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. AMP Collection, Sydney. Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Press Reviews Sandra McGrath: Australian, May 19-20, 1979. Sandra McGrath: Australian, February 7-8, 1981. Nancy Borlase: Sydney Morning Herald, February 14, 1981. Susanna Short: Sydney Morning Herald, August 3, 1981. Sandra McGrath: Australian, June 4-5, 1983. two-made-as-one 1996 Acrylic on Canvas Diptych 76 x 168 cm - Catalogue No. 6 John McDonald: Sydney Morning Herald, December 6, 1986. Elwyn Lynn: Australian, January 10-11, 1987. Elwyn Lynn: Australian, September 17-18, 1988. Bronwyn Watson: Sydney Morning Herald, September 23, 1988. Norma Henry(Randy Dicker): Nine to Five, October 3, 1988. Christopher Allen: Sydney Morning Herald, September 1, 1989. Elwyn Lynn: Australian, March 7-8, 1992. Lynette Fern: Sydney Morning Herald, March 13, 1992 Louise Martin-Chew: Brisbane Weekend Times, October 23, 1993. Felicity Fenner: Sydney Morning Herald, September 23, 1994 Real Time 6, April-May, 1995. State of the Art 12, March-June, 1995. - march of time - Felicity Fenner: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 1995. A selection of paintings and works on paper from 1985 - 2001 John McDonald: Sydney Morning Herald, May 11, 1996 Bruce James: Sydney Morning Herald, July 5, 1996. Zelda Cawthorne: Melbourne Herald Sun, February 8, 1997. Christopher Allen: Memories, references and conceits. Art Monthly, March, 1997, Number 97, pp 6-8. Bruce James, Sydney Morning Herald, February 6, 1998 David Bromfield, On Show. The West Australian, December 12, 1998 Courtney Kidd, Critic’s Pick, Sydney Morning Herald, August 25-31, 2000 Sonia Barron, Seven artists’ way with collage. Canberra Times, November 9, 2001 Catalogues and Books Gary Willis: Another Zone, Watters Gallery, 1986. 23 June - 14 July 2002 Tony Bond: Surface for Reflexion, Sydney, Beaver Press, 1986. Nevill Drury: New Art Two, Sydney, Craftsman Press, 1988. Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 1989. Jenny Zimmer: Circle Line Square. Aspects of Geometry. Sydney, Bloxam & Chambers, 1994. George Alexander, Calligraphies of Pleasure: Liz Coats, Jim Croke, Jon Plapp. Sydney, Sir Herman Black Gallery, 1995. Bruce James: Elusive Meanings; Geometric Abstraction in the work of Jon Plapp, 1984-1994, Devonport Gallery and Arts Centre, 1995. Guessable Mirrors, Catalog, Watters Gallery, Shepson, 1996. Christopher Heathcote: Transcendence or Revolution? Geometry and the Question. Catalog for Non-Objective Presence, Australian Galleries, 1996,1997 Julie Roberts: Questioning Abstraction. Catalog for Non-Objective Presence, Australian Galleries, 1996, 1997 Optics, Catalog, Sir Herman Black Gallery, University of Sydney, 1998. GALERIE DÜSSELDORF Jacques Delaruelle, Drawing. In The enduring Tradition: Drawings by nine contemporary artists. Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, 1998-1999 www.galeriedusseldorf.com.au Catalog: We Are Australian. Curated by David Thomas. Beaumaris, 1999 - our exhibitions comprehensively at your fingertips - Catalog: Its a guitar shaped world. Curated by Reg Lynch. Tamworth, 2000 9 GLYDE ST MOSMAN PARK AUSTRALIA WA 6012 TEL/FAX: +61 8 9384 0890 Catalog: A Studio in Paris: Australian Artists at the Cite. Curated by Jane Watters. S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 2001 email : [email protected] Bernard Smith with Terry Smith and Christopher Heathcote: Australian Painting 1788 - 2000. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2001 GALLERY HOURS : TUESDAY - FRIDAY 10-4.30 SUNDAY 2-5 and by Appointment Jon Plapp was born in Melbourne in 1938. He obtained his first degree from Melbourne University in 1959 and went on to gain a PhD (Psychology) from Washington University, St Louis, USA in 1967. He settled in Toronto, Canada in 1968 and went on to share a studio with Toronto painters David Bolduc and Paul Sloggett in 1976. He returned to Australia in 1977 settling in Sydney. Amongst other public and private collections his work is also held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. Plapp offers a site, a safe place if you will, where viewers conduct their maladies (some hybrid of exhausted vision and confounding intimation it would likely be) for ease. Note that he doesn’t impose the painting’s order on a disordered world. He merely allows for that order – that discrete, abstract, aesthetic order - to be accessible to it. We come to Jon Plapp’s paintings confident they will receive us in all their assuaging, not to say therapeutic, property. That said, I think we also come for their sheer sophistication as visual productions, for their beauty in fact. The work of a mature painter practised in his craft and sincere in his project, they position Plapp in the echelon – and narrow it is – of contemporary Australian abstractionists of substance. Extract from Catalogue essay to the exhibition Elusive Meanings, Geometric Abstraction in the work of Jon Plapp 1984 – 1994 (Devonport Gallery and Arts Centre, Tasmania 1995) Written by Bruce James (art critic) 1 march of time 1985 5 apotheosis 2001 Acrylic on Canvas Acrylic on Canvas 176.5 x 218.5 cm 168 x 168 cm JON PLAPP $ 7,500 $ 6,000 1938Born, Melbourne, Australia. 1959BA, University of Melbourne. 1967PhD (Psychology), Washington University, St Louis, USA. 1966- 68Painting and life drawing classes, Washington University Fine Arts Department, 1968 Settled in Toronto, Canada. 1976Shared studio with Toronto painters David Bolduc and Paul Sloggett. 1977Settled in Sydney. Solo Exhibitions Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1979,81,83,84,86,88,90,92,94,96,98,99, 2000,01 Melbourne University Gallery, 1984. Burnie Art Gallery, 1984. 6 two-made-as-one 1996 Devonport Art Gallery, 1987. Acrylic on Canvas Diptych COG Gallery, Sydney, 1987. 2 wisp of why 1999 Klonaridis Inc., Toronto, Canada, 1988,90. 76 x 168 cm Acrylic on Canvas Milburn + Arte, Brisbane, 1989, 91,93. $ 5,500 Charles Nodrum Melbourne, 1991,93,96. 167.5 x 183 cm Elusive Meanings: Geometric Abstraction in the work of Jon Plapp, 1984-1994 . $ 6,500 Devonport City Art Gallery, 1995; Burnie Regional Art Gallery, 1996, Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney University, 1996, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, 1996 Guessable Mirrors, Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1996. Freedom is a breakfast cereal, Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1998. Whose lost is his found and other recent paintings, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth, 1998 Early Collages. Watters Gallery, Sydney, 2000 Pale Coherences, Watters Gallery, Sydney, 2001 March of Time, A selection of paintings and works on paper from 1985 - 2001. Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth, 2002 Selected Group Exhibitions Larter, Peart, Plapp, Rankin: Watters Gallery, 1980. Collage, with Gleeson, Klippel, Peart: Watters Gallery, 1981. Large Free-Hanging Paintings, with Wally Barda: Watters Gallery, 1984. Coats, Plapp, Strasser: Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, 1984. Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 1984. 7 untitled 1997 Surface for Reflexion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1986. 3 filament 2001 Acrylic on Paper Paper Works, Plapp, Ramage, Willis and others: COG Sydney, 1987. With Peter Poulet: Watters Gallery, 1987. Acrylic on Canvas 46 x 83 cm Self Portrait Show, COG Sydney, 1987. 168 x 185.5 cm $ 2,000 Age of Collage, Holdsworth Contemporary Gallery, Sydney, 1987. $ 6,500 Abstracts, with Janet Laurence, Vivienne Ferguson, Victor Sellu, King Street Gallery, Sydney 1988. Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, 1988, 90, 92, 94,96, 98, 2000 Manly Art Gallery, Sydney, 1988. Milburn+Arte, Brisbane, 1988. Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 1989. New Attitudes to Constructivism, Klonaridis Inc., Toronto, Canada, 1989. Bettinson, Eager, Larter, Plapp, Varvaressos, Klippel: Watters Gallery, 1989. Microcosym, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, 1991 March, with Lucinda Elliott, Clinton Garofano, Jeff Gibson, Steven Grainger, Hollie, Stephen Killick, Geoff Kleem, Rosemary Laing, John Peart, Jacky Redgate, Imants Tillers, Hiram To & Judy Watson, Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, 1993.
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