1 VERY SPECIAL KIDS IS A CHILDREN’S CHARITY THAT HELPS MORE THAN 900 FAMILIES ACROSS VICTORIA WHO HAVE A CHILD WITH A LIFE-THREATENING CONDITION WITH ONGOING SUPPORT FROM DIAGNOSIS ALL THE WAY THROUGH BEREAVEMENT. SADLY, MANY OF THE CHILDREN WE CARE FOR WILL NOT REACH ADULTHOOD. The free-of-charge family support services include The hospice provides 24-hour medical and nursing care counselling, advocacy, sibling support, bereavement in a warm and welcoming environment. support, networking and peer activities, trained family volunteers and specialist care at Very Special However, we can’t care for these children and families Kids Hospice. all on our own. It costs more than $8 million each year to operate Very Special Kids and we rely substantially Very Special Kids Hospice is the only children’s hospice on the generous support of the community to provide in Victoria and we offer families access to planned and our services. Your contribution is vital to the success of emergency respite, as well as end-of-life care. Very Special Kids. www.vsk.org.au 2 3 THANKS TO SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS OF VERY SPECIAL KIDS FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE IN CREATING ART WITH HEART. Supporting Event Partners Special Supporters Scott Livesy, Livesy Galleries Damien Hackett, Deutscher and Hackett Andrew Blake, Blakes Feast Hamish Rotstein, Rotstein Commercial Lawyers Seymour Cohen Jodie Kras, Art Consultant Robert Oatley, Robert Oatley Wines Miss Dee Jenn Da Costa, Graphic Design Students of Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak A very special thank you to the artists themselves, for donating a portion of SCOTT LIVESY GALLERIES the proceeds from the auction to support children with life-threatening conditions. 4 VERY SPECIAL KIDS PROUDLY PRESENTS ART with HEART AN EXHIBITION AND AUCTION OF EXCEPTIONAL FINE PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES FROM LEADING CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS THURSDAY 14 JUNE, 6.30 – 9.00PM TICKETS: WWW.TRYBOOKING.COM/UBBM ELEVEN40 STUDIO GALLERY ENQUIRIES: 1140 MALVERN RD, MALVERN JANE DINN, VERY SPECIAL KIDS CANAPES, FINE WINE & CHAMPAGNE 9804 6223 OR [email protected] THE FINE ART AND SCULPTURES OFFERED FOR SALE IN THIS CATALOGUE PRESENT A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE OUTSTANDING WORKS BY SOME OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST CELEBRATED CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY WITH: NO BUYER’S PREMIUM PAYABLE AND NO GALLERY COMMISSION BEING CHARGED. THE REPRESENTATIVE GALLERIES FOR THE ARTISTS HAVE GENEROUSLY AGREED TO WAIVE THEIR COMMISSION ON THE SALE OF THESE WORKS. 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 Sydney 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, Melbourne, 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 OIL ON LINEN 153 × 122 CM PRICE ESTIMATE $9,000 – 12,000 REPRESENTED BY: OLSEN GALLERY AND EDWINA CORLETTE GALLERY 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 EDITION 3/5 131 × 156 CM PRICE ESTIMATE $8,000 – 10,000 REPRESENTED BY TOLARNO GALLERIES, ROSLYN OXLEY GALLERY AND GALERIE NATHALIE OBADIA AND TOLARNO GALLERIES 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