ESTHER NEATE ELIZABETH RANKIN YVETTE HAMILTON
ESTHER NEATE
Bottles, 2014, Porcelain and stain, 8 x 19 x 8 cm, each $950 ‘Impression’, 2014, Scorched Woodblock Monoprint; Charcoal and Etching ink on BFK Rives, Edition of 1: Monoprint, 26 x 32 cm, framed, $350 each Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of January 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.
Artist Statement “Minute changes on a surface over time reveal a history of activity and speak to the nature of change. Through a process and material driven approach I investigate patterns of transformation and representations of the passage of time. Most recently, the richly textured surface of charcoal has fuelled my work and been embraced for its conceptual and material properties, especially with regard to its indexical relationship to the event of being burnt. Charcoal invokes the power of memory and conjures associative meanings, particularly given the indelible mark that bushfires make on the Australian experience. I work at the periphery of printmaking, where the discipline intersects with sculpture, new media, performance and installation, embracing the transferal of mark and dynamics of surface.” Esther Neate, 2014
ELIZABETH RANKIN
‘Watching’, 2014, Charcoal, wax, oil stick on paper, 78 x118 cm unframed, framed, $1,900 ‘Safe, 2014, Charcoal, wax, oil stick on paper, 78 x118 cm unframed, framed, $1,900 ‘News Conference’, 2014, Charcoal, wax, oil stick on paper, 78 x118 cm unframed, framed, $1,900 Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of January 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.
ARTIST STATEMENT As an artist my work is based on a love of narrative and I am fascinated by the cultural myths that shape social and political landscapes in Australia as a form of storytelling.
Missing addresses a pervasive Australian cultural concern, the lost child. This motif appears in nineteenth and twentieth century literature and artwork in relationship to the disappearance of children in the Australian bush. Such fears expressed a generalized anxiety of settler culture, an uncertainty of occupation in a landscape so alien to European expectations. The urban stories of the twentieth century share the deep human fears of the bush transferred to the city. The drawings are loosely based on newspaper photographic records of mid twentieth century mysteries. The narratives are fragmented and linear readings are denied by a lack of sequential representation. They become instead a facsimile of a storyboard for a non- existent film. The images draw upon memory and bear the ghostly traces of their making through the use of charcoal and wax in successive fine layers. Wax forms films or glazes upon the surface of the paper preserving fragile charcoal drawings and is both permanent and mutable, like the memory of the event it describes. The effect upon the images created in this way is a tactile surface, an image preserved in amber. My work aims to recall that which is remembered and embedded in culture. Elizabeth Rankin
DMG AWARD 2015 in collaboration with the University of Sydney – Sydney College of the Arts.
YVETTE HAMILTON 29.01. – 28.02.2015
DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY AWARD is an annual award in collaboration with the University of Sydney – Sydney College of the Arts. As part of the award, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY provides an exhibition space in the gallery to show one or more artists from Sydney College of the Arts. A panel selects the artist from SCA’s end of year Postgraduate Degree Show. “Offering an exhibition space to show their works, is the best way to support young and promising artists” says Dominik Mersch. According to best practice in Europe and the USA, such awards are very important to give young artists a head start. Dean of SCA, Prof Colin Rhodes said, “This is a great collaboration between one of Sydney’s top contemporary galleries and one of the country’s best art schools. It gives an opportunity for one of our best to reach a wide, appreciative audience.”
Yvette Hamilton is an Australian artist working in photomedia, video and installation. Her interdisciplinary practice creates work that explores both physical and virtual space through the convention and framework of portraiture. This exploration acts as a launching platform to explore the enmeshed concepts of place and being-in-the world. She is currently a Master of Fine Arts (Research) candidate at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney and has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney. She has exhibited widely in Australia and has also exhibited in London and Slovenia. In 2014 she was a finalist in the Josephine Ulrick & Winn Schubert Award, the Fishers Ghost Art Prize, the Meroogal Womens Art Prize and the Iris Award at the Perth Centre for Photography. In 2013 she held two solo exhibitions in Sydney, ‘A Loved One Sleeping’ at Articulate as part of the Head On Festival and ‘The Path of Totality’ in November at A-M Gallery.
‘Are You There’, (2014), Mirror, plinth, LCD screen, micro camera, computer, facial detection software, servo motors. Dimensions variable, Edition 1/3 +1AP, $9,500 ‘Hello’, (2014) Custom made animated lightboxes, microprocessors, LED lights, 50cm x 50cm x 5cm each, Edition 1/3 +1AP, $2,800 ‘Here/There’, #1 - #13 (2014) Archival Pigment prints mounted on gator board, 53cm x 80cm each, Edition 1/5+1AP, $9,800 for series or $950 each
Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of January 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.