Dominik opened his gallery in 2007 exhibiting 50% Australian and 50% overseas artists. Over the last ten years the gallery showed more than 100 exhibitions and attended 15 art fairs. For the 10th anniversary exhibition ‘10 – Alive and Kicking’ Dominik Mersch Gallery asked the artists to create works which are related to ‘10’ in one way or another.
ISIDRO BLASCO MARION BORGELT JON CATTAPAN LUCAS DAVIDSON JULIAN DAY EMMA FIELDEN ADRIENNE GAHA XENIA HAUSNER TIM JOHNSON
LOCUST JONES DANICA KNEZEVIC CLEMENS KRAUSS JANET LAURENCE DANI MARTI HELEN PYNOR NIKE SAVVAS DANIELLE TOOLEY PHILIP WOLFHAGEN
Install shot
Isidro Blasco ‘Underground Passages’, 2016, C-print on museum board, wood and hardware, 61 x 52 x 23 cm
Lucas Davidson ‘Zehn’, 2017, single-channel video, duration 10:10 minutes, Edition of 3 + 1AP
Marion Borgelt ‘Lunascape: Day No 2’, 2016-17, duck eggshell on kauri pine, Dutch gold leaf, oil, wax, 115 cm diameter x 4 cm deep
Emma Fielden ‘Dark Matter I’, 2016, iron oxide pigment and neodymium magnets on black primed linen and steel, 33 x 33 cm
Marion Borgelt ‘Lunar Warp Sun No 8’, 2017, 22 karat gold leaf, mirror stainless steel, timber, polyurethane, 45 diameter x 12.4 cm deep
Emma Fielden ‘Dark Matter II’, 2016, iron oxide pigment and neodymium magnets on black primed linen and steel, 33 x 33cm
Jon Cattapan ‘the decade positions’, 2017, oil and acrylic on linen, 100 x 200 cm
Adrienne Gaha ‘Handmaidens [after Titian]’, 2016, oil on linen, 153 x 117 cm
Julian Day ‘Studies in unison’, 2014-15, TV screen, mirror, video, edition of 5 + 1 a.p
Xenia Hausner ‘TEN’, 2017, archival pigment print on 310 g Hahnemuehle handmade paper, handcrafted unique work, framed, 80 x 126 cm
Helen Pynor ‘Slit Series’, 2016, 10 archival pigment prints on acid-free tissue, 32 x 28 cm, edition of 5 + 1 a.p.
Tim Johnson ‘10 directions’, 2017, acrylic on linen, 121 x 121 cm
Dani Marti ‘Fallen’, 2016, concrete, powder coated steel, sisal rope and brick, 87 x 66 x 110 cm
Danica I. J. Knezevic ‘Bound By Longing’, 2015, video, 7:55 min, edition of 3 + 1 a.p.
Nike Savvas ‘Untitled’, 2017, diamond dust, 24 carat gold leaf, 58 x 58 cm unframed, edition of 5 + 1 a.p.
Clemens Krauss ‘Self portrait as 10 year old boy’, 2017, oil on paper, framed, 73 x 41 cm
Danielle Tooley ‘Party Painting’, 2017, oil on linen, 31 x 31 cm
Janet Laurence ‘Memory Matter’, 1992-95, stainless Philip Wolfhagen steel, black steel, photograph, zinc, ‘Experimental Garden no 1’, 2016, aluminium, wood, veneer, oil, wax, oil and beeswax on linen, 62 x 204 cm 192 x 266 cm
Locust Jones ’10/1 to 10/10’, 2017, ceramic, pigments, each ca. 22 x 17 x 18 cm, ca. 15 x 11 x 11 cm
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