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ABSENTEE BIDS REQUIRE BID SHEET TO BE COMPLETED IN ADVANCE. DELIVERY FEE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. 5 MICHAEL JOHNSON

In 1960, following the completion primary colour performs an opera of of his studies in at the Julian gestures and painterly manoeuvres. Ashton Art School and the National Michael Johnson has exhibited Art School, Michael Johnson departed widely both nationally and for London, where he spent the internationally, and was included in following seven years. During this the seminal exhibitions, ‘The Field’, time he painted full time, working National Gallery of Victoria, , periodically as a studio assistant to and Art Gallery of New South Wales, the British sculptors Brian Wall and Sydney (1968); the UNESCO Biennale, Anthony Caro. In 1967, he returned France (1968);the São Paulo Bienal, to Sydney, where he held his first Brazil (1969); and The Australian two solo exhibitions, thus marking Biennale, Art Gallery of New South the beginning of a long and Wales, Sydney (1988). outstanding career. Among Johnson’s awards and Michael Johnson’s work is marked commissions are works for the Sydney by a metaphysical orchestration of Conference Centre and the State Bank colour and a muscularity of presence. of New South Wales, Sydney. He is His paintings (and occasional works represented in all major Australian in three dimensions) are romantic in 1. DIAGONAL PLAY, 2012 – 13 state and regional collections, New essence; in their application, they are Zealand’s Chartwell Collection, and OIL ON CANVAS raw and intuitive, deeply connected to in numerous significant corporate and 183 × 152 CM his intense and complex relationships private collections in Australia and with nature, natural process and mood. PRICE ESTIMATE $35,000 — 40,000 overseas. Beagle Press published a This is most tangibly so in his works substantial monograph on Michael of the past decade, where ruptured, Johnson’s work in 2004. sinewed application of base, 6 JULIAN MEAGHER

Julian Meagher is a 39 year old a finalist in the Wynne Prize in 2015. Sydney-based artist. He is represented He has been finalist multiple times in by Olsen Gallery, Sydney and Edwina the Doug Moran Portrait Prize, Salon Corlette Gallery, Brisbane. des Refuses, Metro Art Prize, Blake Prize for Religious Art, RBS Emerging Meagher’s oil paintings have a unique Artist Prize and a finalist in the Gold watercolour effect. His interest in the Award at Rockhampton Art Gallery. concept of both personal and inherited history, including links to our national He has exhibited at the Melbourne identity, is evident in much of Meagher’s International Art Fair in 2010, 2012 and subject matter. 2014, Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair in 2010, Scope Miami in 2011 and 2012 He is a multiple Archibald Prize finalist and Sydney Contemporary Art Fair in with portraits of actor John Waters and 2013, 2015 and 2017. musician Daniel Johns and was also

2. WAPENGO #2, 2018

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153 × 122 CM

PRICE ESTIMATE $9,000 – 12,000

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7 JONNY NIESCHE

Jonny Niesche is a post-minimalist installation to recast our understanding artist who explores the expanded of the effects of surface, color and field of painting and abstraction by architectural space. Through the use reformulating our understanding of of translucent custom-dyed fabrics and the effects of light and colour on mirror he examines the surfaces we call the human senses. Sharing similar skin, fabric, canvas, wall and screen. concerns with Light and Space But painting for Niesche is a challenge artists of postwar Europe who to our appreciation of these surface incorporated movement and light encounters and an open invitation to into the expanded possibilities of define new spaces for the viewer to painting (such as sensory phenomena, be enveloped. An embodied spatial translucence, and ambience), Niesche and physical dynamic is established experiments with the effects of between seer and seen, object and interactivity, involving the viewer spectator, that is part of an ongoing spatially and physically in the act of reappraisal of the possibilities of looking. Niesche has traced his interest painting, and of our perceptual in the phenomena of perception to relation to it. 3. OUR LIPS AND EARS ENFOLDED his childhood experience of visiting Jonny Niesche completed his MFA FOR WHISPERING, 2018 department-store cosmetic counters at Sydney College of the Arts (2013) with his mother, where boredom VOILE AND ACRYLIC MIRROR under Mikala Dwyer, and under mingled with fascination as he gazed at Heimo Zobernig at Academy Fine 150 × 120 × 6 CM the colour range of eyeshadow palettes Arts in Vienna. PRICE ESTIMATE $8,000 – 11,000 and the infinite reflections of the store’s mirrored architecture. Niesche is represented by Station REPRESENTED BY STATION Gallery, Melbourne; Sarah Cottier Favouring the openness, clarity and GALLERY, SARAH COTTIER Gallery, Sydney; Zeller Van Almsick in seduction of post painterly abstraction, GALLERY, ZELLER VAN ALMSICK, Vienna, Austria; and Lundgren Gallery Niesche’s works combine the traditions AND LUNDGREN GALLERY in Palme de Mallorca, Spain. of sculpture, digital printing and 8 BROOK ANDREW

Brook Andrew is an interdisciplinary Switzerland; and The Right to Offend is artist who examines dominant Sacred opened at the National Gallery narratives, often relating to colonialism of Victoria, a 25-year reflection on his and modernist histories. Through practice. In 2018 he will present What’s museum and archival interventions, Left Behind, a new commission for he aims to offer alternate versions of SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium forgotten histories; illustrating different and Engagement at the 21st Biennale means for interpreting history in the of Sydney. world today. Brook Andrew is represented by Most recently Brook presented Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne; Roslyn Ahy-kon-uh-klas-tik, an interrogation Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; and Galerie of the Van Abbemuseum archives in Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels.

4. POSSESSED IV, 2015 Holland. In 2017, he also created an intervention into the collection of the SILVER GELATIN PRINT, Musée d’ethnographie de Genève, CARBONISED FRAME

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131 × 156 CM

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9 LAURA JONES

Laura Jones is an artist from Sydney, of Queensland Heron Island Research well known for her contemporary still Station, Laura brought a difficult life paintings. Previously a florist, her conversation to light through an work grew from a desire to express exhibition “Bleached” at Olsen Gallery a love for nature — the process of in May 2017. painting beginning with the physical Laura has a Bachelor of Arts (Asian act of arranging flowers. In the current Studies) from the University of Sydney, context of global climate change, and a Master of Art from the College this practice gradually evolved into a of Fine Arts University of New South passionate effort to impress this love Wales. for the environment onto her audience. Laura is represented by Sophie Her most recent work engaged with Gannon Gallery, Melbourne and climate change impacts on coral and Olsen Gallery, Sydney. She is currently the mass coral bleaching of the Great working towards her inaugural solo Barrier Reef. After research residencies exhibition with Sophie Gannon Gallery at the Australian Museum Lizard Island in August 2018. Research Station and the University 5. MIDNIGHT BANKSIA, 2018

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122 × 102 CM

PRICE ESTIMATE $6,000 – 8,000

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Andrew Taylor was born in Melbourne “If you slow down the process and in 1967 and holds a Bachelor of Fine the thought until a specific moment, Art from The Victorian College of a specific decision lingers in a layer the Arts. and you capture that capture, you can make things of presence that hold the Andrew’s work has been exhibited present.” — Andrew Taylor 2016 in a large number of solo and group exhibitions, and collections are held “His nature is not frozen by an orthodox at the National Gallery of Victoria classicism; it flickers on the peripheries and Artbank. of abstraction - the forest edges where nothing seemingly happens but the Taylor has said he “likes to make shadows bristle with small incidents.” something slow about something as — Annmarie Kiely, Vogue Living, fast as a moment”. His images capture March 2016 Interview with the artist. glimpses of nature - a tree silhouetted against a foggy evening sky, a pile of 6. OUTSIDE: FRIDAY, 2017 fallen leaves, a filigree of branches. OIL ON LINEN

183 × 183 CM

PRICE ESTIMATE $16,000 – 20,000

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11 GREGORY HODGE

Gregory Hodge constructs illusionary the space between image and reality, abstractions from a mélange of source representation and abstraction. material including painted abstract Hodge has participated in numerous motifs on drafting film, coloured paper group and solo exhibitions within and masking tape, before rendering Australia. Recent solo exhibitions these collages in paint. Using complex include Spectator and the Pit, and systematic technical processes Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore such as trompe-l’oeil, cast shadows and (2017); Paintings, Bus Projects, Melbourne manipulating paints’ translucent and (2016); Collages, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney opaque qualities, the paintings playfully (2015); and A Fabled Gesture, Canberra mimic the physical fragility and provisional Contemporary Artspace (2015). He also nature of the source material. This visual participated in the exhibition Tricking trickery within the abstract picture space the eye— contemporary trompe l’oeil, presents the viewer with multiple visual Gallery, Victoria (2016); Fine experiences. Surface and materiality Arts March Mostra, British School at become imaginative entry points yielding Rome, Italy (2015); Mind the Gap, Casula 7. THEATRE, 2015 potential clues as traces of the process Powerhouse, Sydney (2014); Clean Living, are tacitly signalled via the shadows and ACRYLIC ON PAPER Contemporary Art Space, Tasmania illusion of collage. Hodge’s work exudes MOUNTED ON PVC (2012); and Word of Mouth, Canberra a sense of the material presence of 198 × 154 CM IRREGULAR Museum and Gallery (2012). Hodge was a painting via a concern with light, colour finalist at the 2013 Doug Moran National PRICE ESTIMATE $10,000 – 13,000 and surface, while calling to mind the Portrait Prize, Sydney, as well as the Blake perceptual associations of vision via the REPRESENTED BY SULLIVAN+STRUMPF Prize, Galleries UNSW, COFA Sydney illusionistic picture space. The paintings (2013). He has also participated in art fairs blur the boundaries between two and such as Art Stage Singapore (2017) and three dimensionality and playfully explore Art Stage Jakarta (2016). 12 MATTHEW JOHNSON

Matthew Johnson is an artist who is in the public or private sector. His renowned for his use of colour and translation of colour into the built form painterly abstraction. His works are engages and enlivens the viewer to an well represented by collections both informed environment that reflects the nationally and internationally. As an human condition. artist he has travelled extensively Johnson views his artistic approach to throughout the world both living built structures as sculptural entities and working in many countries that remain embedded within the fabric and undertaking artist residencies of the building plane. programs throughout his career. His most recent undertaking is to His language of colour and create and design a colour palette abstract form has lead Johnson for the external facade for the icon to interdisciplinary collaborations building at 2 St Kilda Rd. It is his 8. EFFUSSIO SRATUM III, 2018 with award winning architects (INDICATIVE IMAGE ONLY) intention and rationale that the colour and designers. be reflective of the natural environment OIL ON LINEN Johnson’s philosophy towards his of St Kilda and that the artwork facade 184 × 240 CM architectural projects is to bring a will become a visual metaphor to the PRICE ESTIMATE $15,000 – 20,000 sense of originality and clarity to celebration of this unique location. REPRESENTED BY OLSEN GALLERY, the built environment whether it is SYDNEY AND BLOCK PROJECTS, MELBOURNE

13 DANIEL BOYD

Daniel Boyd is a Sydney-based artist Daniel Boyd holds a BA from the who descends from the Kudjla/Gangalu Australian National University Art peoples of Far North Queensland and School in Canberra. of North Pentecost Island in Vanuatu. Recent exhibitions include Daniel His practice interrogates Eurocentric Boyd: Bitter Sweet, Cairns Regional perspectives of Australia’s colonial Gallery, Cairns; Not Niwe, Not Nieuw, past, reinterpreting artistic and Not Neu, 4A Centre for Contemporary archival material in order to question Asian Art, Sydney; Spring 1883 Art Fair, romanticised notions that dominate w STATION, Sydney; Mondialité, Villa historical vernacular. Empain, The Boghossian Foundation, Boyd’s unique pointillist technique, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist & in which he blackens much of the Asad Raza, Brussels, BE; Defying UNTITLED (TTEOTU) 9. , 2018 canvas and creates a constellation of Empire: National Indigenous Art OIL, CHARCOAL, PASTEL AND painted ‘lenses’ to form a cohesive Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, ARCHIVAL GLUE ON BOARD image, references the Gestalt school Canberra; I build my language with 50 × 60 CM of psychology’s Law of Closure, ie. rocks, STATION, Melbourne; Painting. our ability to fill in the gaps between More Painting, Australian Centre for PRICE ESTIMATE $8,000 – 11,000 a myriad of obscured cues. His Contemporary Art, Melbourne; All the REPRESENTED BY STATION GALLERY work acknowledges the multitude World’s Futures, 56th International AND ROSLYN OXLEY GALLERY of collective, cultural and personal Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, memories at the core of historical curated by Okwui Enwezor, Venice, IT. imagery, and seeks to create a context for a diaspora of meaning to exist.

14 EDUARDO GUELFENBEIN

Born in Santiago Chile in 1953, strongly, with contrasting carved Eduardo Guelfenbein is a Chilean artist gestural strokes, and mostly, a full based in Paris. Guelfenbein graduated colour palette. Potentially, the liquid from the Accademia delle Belle Arti, transformations and twisting patterns Brera, Milan, Italy. are infinite. The hills and valleys morphed by the thickness of the paint, Eduardo Guelfenbein’s aesthetic is much like a cosmic creation, generate inspired by his nomadic lifestyle and different feelings and never-ending sensibilities. After travelling through forms. Dominated by a commanding Italy and Lake Varese, the artist presence of bold strokes and riveting settled in Paris where he paints his colour tones, Guelfenbein’s work is an thick, expressive and colourful pieces energetic blend of both pictorial and enriched with the energy of South 10. RADIALLY, 2017 sculptural properties. In fiery tones of American. Loyal to the abstract genre, red, orange and blue, Guelfenbein’s ACRYLIC ON CANVAS Eduardo Guelfenbein displays an works evoke a sense of power and 162 × 130 CM overflowing zeal with his fluid lines and trepidation shrouded in the vitality swirls filled with intense, yet controlled, PRICE ESTIMATE $25,000 of thickly applied colour strokes. energy. Through his soulful expression REPRESENTED BY OPERA GALLERY of liquid abstractions, the thick acrylic Guelfenbein has held numerous textured canvases of Guelfenbein successful exhibitions around the reveal a process of discovery of infinite world from Europe, America, Asia and patterns and never-ending forms that Australia with a personal show in 1997 much resemble a cosmic creation. at the Museum of Contemporary Art Guelfenbein aims to create interesting of Santiago, Chile. acrylic texture, where light refracts 15 ROBIN L. STEWART

The circumstances of Stewart’s system, he has been working under paintings depict a modern human and with craftsmen all his creative life. predicament: the pressure of His influences have been the Russian commercial life. Affairs are packed painters of the early twentieth century into a day, giving no time to think or and international artists of that time. contemplate, or play. A restaurant Stewart’s development has been becomes a place to catch up on through the study of the works of the correspondence, a café is now an European Moderns, and Rodchenco, institution where business is carried Malevich, Tatlin, Kandinski, Bacon out. The subjects of his work toil and Hopper. SLEEPWALKER 11. , 2016 quietly, fulfilling a task which must be Robin Stewart has exhibited OIL ON LINEN completed. They wait for a meeting. paintings in solo and group shows They pay a bill. Home is far away. 95 × 158CM around Australia since 2009. He A building must be locked. A cleaner PRICE ESTIMATE $6,000 – 8,000 has also exhibited as a finalist at the begins his work, and always the built Royal Academy Summer Show in REPRESENTED BY environment, the desk, the stairs, the EASTGATE & HOLST the UK, He was a finalist in the 2016 corners, the lifts and the fluoro lights. Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. Drawing has been a central part of He has exhibited solo at Eastgate & his art from the beginning. Stewart will Holst Melbourne, (sellouts) and an often begin his works in pencil and introductory group show at Mossgreen graduate into oil. Attending art school in Melbourne, Victoria. and raised in the commercial studio

16 ROSELLA NAMOK

Rosella Namok first appeared on the traditional stories and contemporary contemporary art scene in the late themes associated with cultural, social 1990s as one of the more prominent and environmental concerns. Through members of the newly established a technique developed by watching Far North Queensland’s renowned her grandmother drawing in the sand, Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’. A small and Namok creates her signature finger- remote community, Lockhart River patterned linear arrangements by is located eight hundred kilometres pulling her fingers through the paint. north of Cairns on the Eastern Cape Namok’s works are currently held in York Peninsula. Growing up, she private and public collections both experienced traditional life — camping, nationally and internationally including fishing, gathering berries — within and National Gallery of Australia, National around the Lockhart River, Claudie Gallery of Victoria, Cairns Regional River, Quintell Beach, Chilli Beach, Gallery, University of Queensland Art Great Barrier Reef, and the Iron Range Museum, Queensland University of (Kutini-Payamu) National Park. Technology Art Museum, International 12. PARA HOUSE, 2001 More recently, Namok has been Education Services (IES),The Kluge- SYNTHETIC POLYMER PAINT living and working in Cairns as well Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the ON CANVAS as completing private and corporate University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 176 × 123 CM commissions in Brisbane studios. Virginia, USA and Columbus State PRICE ESTIMATE $10,000 – 12,000 Her paintings continue to reflect both University, Georgia, USA.

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17 ALEX SETON

Alex Seton is a Sydney-based artist In 2015, Seton was awarded a Grand best known for his use of marble Jury prize at the Fondation François carving. Throughout his practice he has Schneider ‘Contemporary Talents’ used the techniques and languages competition. He was the Inaugural of classical statuary and monument, Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence, playing with, inverting and exaggerating Margaret Olley Art Centre, Tweed River them to create works that reflect on Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, in 2014 and the contemporary world. Recent work in 2012 participated in the prestigious has used this lens to engage directly Art OMI residency program in New with contemporary political issues, York. In 2014 his work Someone died such as Australia’s treatment of asylum trying to have a life like mine was seekers, and questions of conflict and included in the Adelaide Biennial. 13. BENTWOOD HYBRIDS, 2016 nationhood.

ANTIQUE VIENNESE THONÉT In 2017, his work Refuge was included BENTWOOD AND BIANCA CARRARA in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (India) 94 × 41 × 50 CM EACH following his solo exhibition The

PRICE ESTIMATE $16,000 – 18,000 Journey at Galerie Paris Beijing (France). He has had numerous solo REPRESENTED BY exhibitions, including Newcastle SULLIVAN+STRUMPF Art Gallery; McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery; Linden Centre for Contemporary Art; Australian War Memorial; Tweed Regional Gallery; and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery. 18 ALAN ANNELLS

Alan has come from a career in Alan Annells concentrates on a visual advertising and design. He graduated comment on our urban landscape, from Maidstone College of Art (UK) focusing on iconic buildings, landmarks with Honours in Graphic Design in from Melbourne and around the 1970. His career as an art director saw world. His style is realistic using him work in England and Australia. In theatrical minimalist content and bold 1989 he established Response Design, graphic imagery. a multi-disciplined design consultancy. Alan has exhibited works in many well He was creative director shaping know contemporary art exhibitions, the visual direction of many national and was a finalist in the ANL Awards and international brands. In 2004 he in 2015 and has collections across followed a lifetime passion with the Australia and the UK. 14. END OF THE LINE, 2018 visual arts and started to paint and ACRYLIC ON CANVAS sculpt full time.

120 × 150 CM

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