OLSEN ANNEXE presents TRUTH OVER TRADITION, a highly anticipated exhibition of two and three-dimensional works by gallery artist MATT BROMHEAD. For this show, BROMHEAD has built his surfaces from the work of days past—creating pictures that gradually build and make themselves known through layers of transparent paper. Using this method, the artist encourages us to acknowledge the layered nature of information we receive; to question our sources, and to reconsider that which we take on face value. This body of work pursues a new way of working, a methodical layering process involving translucent paper and pigmented material. Between each sheet of his thin Kozo (Mulberry paper), BROMHEAD lays a ground of slowdrying glue. These drawings unfold over many hours in turn and are a kind of cumulative total of a daily practice. Gradually the compositions come in to being. “I hope that they show their final form and their skeletal history equally”. “Bromhead’s sculpture and drawing practices are closely related; they ping pong back and forth, bouncing the same ideas between them yet transpiring in seemingly opposing mediums. Both are exercises in line and formalism, yet while his drawings take shape through an almost automatic process of putting pencil or ink to paper, his sculptures rely on the qualities and characteristics of his found objects to reveal themselves as finished pieces.” Excerpt from ART COLLECTOR MAGAZINE courtesy ROSY LEAKE. MATT BROMHEAD has enjoyed great success in a number of esteemed prizes, having recently been included in the Dobell Drawing Prize (2021), the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize (2020), Hazelhurst’s Art on Paper Award (2019) and the Paddington Art Prize (2018).
Matt Bromhead Warbles, 2022 Ink on kozo on board 150 x 120 cm #32715 $7,500
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Matt Bromhead Vessel (Echo's), 2022 Ink on kozo on board 150 x 120 cm #32723 $7,500
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Matt Bromhead XXXUN, 2022 Ink on kozo on board 150 x 120 cm #32713 $7,500
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Matt Bromhead Pfilter, 2022 Ink on kozo on board 150 x 120 cm #32714 $7,500
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Matt Bromhead Three Hundred and Thirty One Views West, 2022 Charcoal, pastel on paper on board 120 x 150 cm #32716 $7,500
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Matt Bromhead Seventy Nine Views West, 2022 Charcoal on kozo on board 76 x 101 cm #32719 $4,200
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Matt Bromhead Current, 2022 Ink, charcoal on kozo on board 76 x 101 cm #32718 $4,200
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Matt Bromhead Seagulls in China, 2022 Charcoal, ink, rice paper, kozo on board 76 x 103 cm #32720 $4,200
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Matt Bromhead Dropping Shopping, 2022 Charcoal, ink, rice paper, kozo on board 76 x 103 cm #32721 $4,200
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Matt Bromhead Eighty Three Views West, 2022 Charcoal, pastel on cotton paper 77 x 112 cm Unframed #32728 $3,200
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Matt Bromhead Waste Wednesday (they told me to), 2022 Ink, charcoal, rice paper, mulberry paper 75 x 63 cm Paper 88 x 74 x 3.5 cm Framed #32717 $2,800
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Matt Bromhead Views West (Study I), 2022 Charcoal on kozo on board 40 x 30 cm #32722 $1,400
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Matt Bromhead Storm, 2022 Copper, linoleum, ink, paper, perlite, wood 25 x 12 x 4.5 cm #32724 $800
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Matt Bromhead Stage, 2022 Copper, linoleum, ink, paper, perlite, wood 29 x 10 x 3 cm #32725 $800
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Matt Bromhead High Fruit, 2022 Plaster, wood, metal, ink, fibreglass 40.5 x 7.5 x 6.5 cm #32726 $800
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Matt Bromhead After Hours, 2022 Brass, plaster, ink, wood 36.5 x 10 x 10 cm #32727 $800
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