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ROLAND NANCARROW RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 101 Views of Cairns, Kick Arts, Cairns, QLD Sky Flowers and Birdwings, Sofitel Hotel, Cairns, QLD Skinny Legs and All, Cell Artspace, Cairns, QLD Framed Gallery, Darwin, N.T From a Garden Somewhere (10yr survey exhibition) • Cooloola Regional Gallery, Gympie, QLD • Bundaberg Arts Centre, Bundaberg, QLD • Caloundra Regional Gallery, QLD • Pinnacles Gallery, Thuringowa, QLD • Sugarama Gallery, Australian Sugar Museum, Mourilyan, QLD Artspace Mackay, Mackay, QLD Gallery 482, Brisbane, QLD RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS Rush, Sofitel Hotel, Cairns Hitting On & Kicking Off, KickArts, Cairns Cross Currents • Caloundra Regional, Caloundra • Australian Sugar Museum, Mourilyan New Image New Way, Plastic Kinetic Worms, Singapore Unchartered, The River • Mildura Regional Gallery, Mildura • Umbrella Studios, Townsville • Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns RECENT PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS Gladstone Community Health Centre, Gladstone Babinda State School, Babinda Tallebudgera Recreation Centre, Tallebudgera Quinkin Cultural Centre, Laura Wide Bay College of TAFE, Maryborough Cairns Regional Playground, Cairns Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra Cairns City Council, Shields St Redevelopment, Cairns Australian Sugar Museum, Mourilyan Cleveland Youth Detention Centre, Townsville Peddle Thorp Architects, Brisbane
New work in painting and sculpture by Roland Nancarrow 15 September to 11 November 2006, KickArts, 96 Abbott St. Cairns
© images copyright Roland Nancarrow edition of 1000 published September 2006 by KickArts Contemporary Arts Ltd photography David Campbell
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COLLECTIONS Aberdere Collieries Pty Ltd – Ipswich, QLD: Artbank – Sydney, NSW: Brisbane Civic Art Gallery and Museum – Brisbane, QLD: Brisbane Boy’s Grammar School – Brisbane, QLD: Bundaberg Art Gallery- Bundaberg, QLD: Cairns Base Hospital, Art in Care Collection – Cairns, QLD: Cairns Regional Gallery Collection – Cairns, QLD: Cairns City: Council Collection – Cairns, QLD: Cairns Convention Centre – Cairns, QLD: Darwin Airport Hotel – Darwin N.T: Mackay City Collection – Mackay, QLD: Matsue City Collection – Matsue, Japan: Pinnacles Gallery – Thuringowa Shire Council, Thuringowa, QLD: Perc Tucker Regional Gallery – Townsville, QLD: St Edmonds College – Ipswich, QLD: Tallebudgera Recreation Centre – Tallebudgera, QLD: Townsville Entertainment & Convention Centre – Townsville, QLD: QLD Government, Premier’s Department – Brisbane, QLD: Wide Bay College of TAFE – Maryborough, QLD
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Dark Shadow III 2006 acrylic on plastic, aluminium and wood 2440 x 510 x 400 Dark Shadow IV 2006 acrylic on plastic, aluminium and wood 2265 x 550 x 340 White Shadow I 2006 acrylic on plastic, aluminium and wood 2445 x 500 x 300 Dark Shadow II 2006 acrylic on plastic, aluminium and wood 2460 x 510 x 440
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Ellis Beach 1966 2006 acrylic on canvas 460 x 610 mm Severin Street 2006 acrylic on canvas 460 x 610 mm Last Light - Holloways 2006 acrylic on canvas 460 x 610 mm Dwarf Coconuts - Fishery Falls 2006 acrylic on canvas 460 x 610 mm
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List of Works All acrylic on canvas The Lakes Water Lillies 1000 x 660mm Boardwalk 500 x 530mm Esplanade Northern End 1976 1000 x 660mm Studio Street View I 550 x 1790mm Studio Street View II 900 x 1440mm Studio Street View III 900 x 1440mm Studio Street View IV 900 x 1440mm Studio Street View V 550 x 1790mm Bent Tree On The Red Arrow 760 x 760mm Behind The Gardens 505 x 505mm Blue Esplanade 505 x 505mm Machans From Holloways 1976 715 x 945mm Before A Terminal - 1976 500 x 530mm Airport Road From Red Arrow 500 x 530mm Last Light - Holloways 460 x 610mm Lakes View II 490 x 750mm Centenary Lakes 505 x 505mm A Long Rainy Day 1025 x 470mm A Sandy Beach 500 x 530mm On The Inlet 490 x 750mm Lakes View I 490 x 750mm Wet Day From The Lookout 715 x 945mm Double Esplanade I 610 x 610mm Double Esplanade II 610 x 610mm Anderson Street Roundabout 500 x 530mm Dwarf Coconuts - Fishery Falls 460 x 610mm Top of the Mountain View 490 x 750mm A Long Walk on the Esplanade 490 x 750mm Pyramid from the Inlet 500 x 530mm Green Day - The Lakes 760 x 760mm
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Inlet View from Red Arrow 530 x 530mm Red Boat 500 x 530mm Green Island 1966 530 x 530mm Ellis Beach 1966 460 x 610mm Late Afternoon - Holloways 715 x 945mm Behana 715 x 945mm From Mondo’s 530 x 530mm Severin Street 460 x 610mm Sculptures Acrylic on plastic, aluminium and wood White Shadow I 2445 x 500 x 300 Dark Shadow II 2460 x 510 x 440 Dark Shadow III 2440 x 510 x 400 Dark Shadow IV 2265 x 550 x 340
Top Of The Mountain 2006 acrylic on canvas 490 x 750 mm A Long Walk On The Esplanade 2006 acrylic on canvas 490 x 750 mm On The Inlet 2006 acrylic on canvas 490 x 750 mm Lakes View I 2006 acrylic on canvas 490 x 750 mm Lakes View II 2006 acrylic on canvas 490 x 750 mm
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Intoduction Roland Nancarrow captures the colours and forms of our tropical paradise through all of his works of art. A respected peer in our community of artists, Nancarrow has established himself as a sculptor, painter and in recent years a public artist through numerous commissions throughout Queensland and has an ongoing demand for solo exhibitions.
Roland Nancarrow has had a connection with Cairns for 37 years, after being posted here as a young bank officer. Well known as a sculptor and public artist this exhibition is primarily a ‘painted’ look at his adopted ‘hometown’. The title ‘101 Views of Cairns’ is not literal, however the series could be viewed as a progression, like the many thoughts one may have about Cairns as it is not the paradise the glossy brochures would have us believe, as evidenced by the recent months of overcast skies following the devastating cyclone ‘Larry.’
Nancarrow, known affectionately as ‘Rollie’ is also an educator and has a following of students who admire his dedication to his artistic practice and benefit greatly from his knowledge, experience and professional expertise.
In these paintings Nancarrow comments on the glossy as well as celebrating and preserving the streetscapes, roundabouts and snippets of water views that are becoming increasingly smaller as waterfront development increases along with development of our green, mountainous backdrops.
He is always a pleasure to work with and KickArts takes great pleasure in presenting this repertoire of Rollie’s work.
In this series of predominantly intimate canvases the views are presented like windows into the bigger picture, which Nancarrow sees as a traditional painters’ format having experimented with Velazquez and Matisse, but here the realism of the issues provides a contrast with the abstracted background or foreground. Source material for this exhibition comes from the artist’s collection of photographs, drawings and paintings compiled over many years as well as the recent discovery of his father’s photographs of Cairns taken in the 60’s. The artist remembers a time when there were no traffic lights in the city and city streets were devoid of cars on the weekend, so his celebration of Cairns is also tinged with nostalgia.
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The exhibition captures many views from the past four decades. Some remain the same, others have been reduced and quite a few have been lost forever. Those who are new to Cairns will experience the current views of tropical paradise, of endless vibrant colour with lashings of sunshine. Locals will see what was and know now it is covered with the shadows of our growing city or recognise a current view that has its days numbered by a proposed development as seen in ‘Studio View, II, III & IV’. The KickArts Artists’ Studio features views out across the Coral Sea, an image that is fitting for an artists’ studio in Cairns that shortly will be lost to the proposed development at the RSL. ‘Studio View, II, III & IV’ will become our memory of what was a wonderful landscape from our studio. The views are still around, you just have to go further to find them.
Rae O’Connell Director
Red Boat 2006 acrylic on canvas 500 x 530 Airport Road From Red Arrow 2006 acrylic on canvas 500 x 530 Anderson Street Roundabout 2006 acrylic on canvas 500 x 530 A Sandy Beach 2006 acrylic on canvas 500 x 530 Before A Terminal - 1976 2006 acrylic on canvas 500 x 530 Boardwalk 2006 acrylic on canvas 500 x 530 Pyramid from the Inlet 2006 acrylic on canvas 500 x 530
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Centenary Lakes 2006 acrylic on canvas 505 x 505 mm Blue Esplanade 2006 acrylic on canvas 505 x 505 mm Behind The Gardens 2006 acrylic on canvas 505 x 505 mm
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