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. Tokyo 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 London 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.