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Specialists Merryn Schriever Director Australian and International Art Specialist Alex Clark Australian and International Art Specialist Francesca Cavazzini Aboriginal and International Art Specialist Yvett Klein Asian Art Specialist Fiona Frith Jewellery Specialist Ophelia Lai Jewellery Specialist Kate Floro Marketing and Client Services Azura Nichols Client Service Coordinator Locations H o Sydney ld Melbourne s Wi wo nd so rt r h St St O c e a n S M t o S n p c i ce Ca u l r e do r St n ia S St t Rush St Ln Peaker Rd Jersey Queen St St Smith Bonhams n St Quee Dw n St Vi Joh ct ye oria r L n Av e Oxford St 1 JUAN FORD (BORN 1973) The Landscape becomes us, and we it. But hasn't it always been so? Tentative Steps, 2008-09 To consider ourselves somehow removed from the dirt we walk on is signed, dated and inscribed verso: the result of our collective imagination at play, so it seems a personal 'Juan Ford / 2008-2009 / Tentative Steps' revelation when it is made plain that it isn't so. Perhaps this is what I oil on linen am trying to paint. 81.0 x 86.0cm (31 7/8 x 33 7/8in). Juan Ford, 2008 $10,000 - 15,000 'Fords new painting series Simple Interference depicts eucalyptus Provenance and gum tree branches to gesture towards the problematic binary Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney of environment/society and their uncomfortable interconnection. In Private collection, Melbourne Ford's paintings, Australian flora and packaging tape are entangled in an awkward relationship, as if to make plain the fragility and Exhibited inelegance of their bonds. Simple Interference, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney, 3 - 22 March 2009 The social context of Ford's paintings of Australian flora is inescapable and provokes references to canonised national imagery. In effect, Ford encourages us to consider what it means to re-image classic references to the Australian landscape within the context of contemporary art and society. Further, how are we to perceive Ford's paintings, and their contemporary concerns with the environment, in relation to Australia's art history and landscape tradition, as inscribed by Hans Heysen, Arthur Streeton, Margaret Preston and so on?'1 1. Veronica Tello, Arts Writer, February 2009, exh. cat., Simple Interference, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney, 2009 6 | BONHAMS IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART | 7 2 BEN QUILTY (BORN 1973) Hill End Landscape #1, 2005 titled, signed and dated verso: 'Hill End Landscape / no.1 / Ben Quilty' oil on linen 110.0 x 140.0cm (43 5/16 x 55 1/8in). $60,000 - 90,000 Provenance Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane Private collection, Brisbane Exhibited We’ve Gotta Get Out of This Place. New work by Ben Quilty and Alexander Seton 29 July – 13 August 2005 8 | BONHAMS IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART | 9 3 4 LOUISE HEARMAN (BORN 1963) TIM MCMONAGLE (BORN 1971) Untitled, 1998-1999 Kirsten, 2006 oil on board oil on linen 56.5 x 50.5cm (22 1/4 x 19 7/8in).