Contemporary Artworks in current stockroom

(alphabetically by artist surname)

Winter’s End

Zadok Ben-David (b. 1949)

Winter’s End2008

hand cut painted aluminium

Diam: 148.5cm

edition of 1

Essay

Zadok Ben-David is an internationally acclaimed London-based artist. Born in Yemen and raised in Israel, he studied at London’s St. Martin’s School of art, where he also taught from 1977-1982. In 1988 he was selected to exhibit as Israel’s representative at the Venice Biennale. His delicate, hand-cut painted aluminium sculptures play with shape and use strong lines and fine detailing to suggest growth, renewal and the connectedness of natural forms.

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Except the Run of Rivers

Category: Contemporary

Beth Letain (b. 1976)

Except the Run of Rivers2018

oil on canvas

signed and dated verso ‘Beth Letain, 2018’

220 x 190cm

Provenance

Pace Gallery, London;
Private Collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Signal Hill, Pace Gallery, London, UK

Essay

Berlin-based Canadian artist Beth Letain engages with the history of colour and abstraction. While her works feel minimalist compositionally, they are vivid withstrong colour painted on white canvas. Letain’s geometric structures are harmonious and rhythmic, referencing Agnes Martin, Mary Heilmann and the Bauhaustheories of colour. This work is of magnificent scale with lashings of oil and rich pigment, so characteristic of the artist’s style. Her works are simple and enduring

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Five Futures

Category: Contemporary Large Scale Works Women

Beth Letain (b. 1976)

Five Futures2017

oil on canvas

170 x 140cm

Provenance

Pace Gallery, London;

Private Collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles, US, 25-28 January, 2018

Essay

Berlin-based Canadian artist Beth Letain engages with the history of colour and abstraction. While her works feel minimalist compositionally, they are vivid with strong colour painted on white canvas. Letain’s geometric structures are harmonious and rhythmic, referencing Agnes Martin, Mary Heilmann and the Bauhaus theories of colour. This work is of magnificent scale with lashings of oil and rich pigment, so characteristic of the artist’s style. Her works are simple and enduring.

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Milkyway (Milngiyawuy)

Category: Aboriginal Contemporary

Naminapu Maymuru-White ((b. 1952))

Milkyway (Milngiyawuy)2013

natural ochres on bark

76 x 24cm

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Pelican

Category: Contemporary Sculpture

John Olsen (b. 1928)

Pelican2022

glazed ceramic plate

44cm (diameter)

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Mask

Category: Australian Contemporary Large Scale Works Painting

Ben Quilty (b. 1973)

Mask2010

oil on linen

140 x 190cm

$150,000

Provenance

Private collection, Sydney

Essay

Ben Quilty recalls he conceived this painting as something of a mask – a Captain Cook mask the artist himself could put on to imagine the world through the eyes of the famous 18th century explorer. Having read extensively through Cook’s diaries, Quilty became fascinated by the man’s initial self belief, an attitude that doubtless contributed to him becoming one of maritime history’s most famous navigators, astronomers and sailors. With the passage of time however, Quilty observed violent changes in Cook’s behaviour toward both his crew and the native populations he encountered.

Cook’s bouts of extreme violence, Quilty along with others postulates, was due in large part to debilitating and personality changing gut conditions, the result of chronic disease. In analysing this change the artist states that ‘Mask’ looks at ‘…the good, the bad and the ugly’. The rorschach technique employed is perfect, providing a multiple image which delves into the human psyche, a reflection and investigation of James Cook the man, and his changing psychological states.

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Waterfall

Category: Contemporary International Large Scale Works

Hiroshi Senju (b. 1958)

Waterfall2018

acrylic and natural pigments on Japanese mulberry paper

paper signed and inscribed "Waterfall, H. Senju, 2018" on reverse

130 x 162cm

Provenance

Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong;
Private collection, Sydney

Essay

Japanese-born painter Hiroshi Senju is noted worldwide for his sublime waterfall and cliff images, which are often monumental in scale. He combines a minimalist visual language rooted in Abstract Expressionism with ancient painting techniques unique to Japan. Senju is widely recognized as one of the few contemporary masters of the thousand-year-old nihonga style of painting, using pigments made from minerals, ground stone, shell and corals suspended in animal-hide glue.

Senju’s work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan; the Yamatane Museum of Art, Tokyo; Tokyo University of the Arts; and the Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido. The Hiroshi Senju Museum in Karuizawa, Japan, opened in 2011 as a gallery devoted in its entirety to the artist’s work.

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A Distance Away – ‘Scattered Cloud’

Category: Australian Contemporary

Tim Storrier (b. 1949)

A Distance Away – ‘Scattered Cloud’

acrylic on canvas

signed verso

100 x 120cm

$125,000

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A Distance Away (afternoon cloud)

Category: Australian Contemporary

Tim Storrier (b. 1949)

A Distance Away (afternoon cloud)2022

acrylic on canvas

signed lower right

41 x 61cm

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Equine Impedimenta (Tully’s Baggage)

Category: Australian Contemporary Sculpture Traditional

Tim Storrier (b. 1949)

Equine Impedimenta (Tully’s Baggage)2019

bronze

H:36 x W22 x L49cm, base length 31.5cm

edition of 50

Essay

Equine Impedimenta (Tully’s Baggage) is an exquisite sculpture of a horse with an assortment of artist’s paraphernalia strapped to its mount. Inspired by the artist’s fascination with horses and the history of our human relationship with them Tim Storrier states, “Horses are beautiful creatures. Their partnership with us is ancient and although not without coercion it has been a wonderfully productive relationship” (Bowral, 2020). Having done numerous studies, drawings and paintings of horses and having collaborated with a master sculptor, Liao Shengxiang, Storrier was inspired to create these bronze maquettes that stand as tributes to these beautiful creatures.

Biography
1949 Born, Sydney
1967–69 Studied at the National Art School, Sydney
2020 Currently lives and works in Bowral, NSW
Awards and Commissions
2017 Awarded Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney
2017 Awarded a Fellowship of the National Art School, Sydney
2014 The Packing Room Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2012 Awarded the Archibald Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
for The Histrionic Wayfarer (after Bosch)
1994 Awarded the AM in the Australia Day Honours for services to
contemporary Australian art
1990 BHP Commission for International Iron and Steel Institute Conference
1984 Awarded the Sulman Prize
1978 Awarded R. M. Ansett Hamilton Art Award
1968 Awarded the Sulman Prize
1967 Awarded Sakura Colour Products Prize

Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of Western
Australia, Perth; Australian National University, Canberra; Deakin University,
Geelong; City of Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria; Western Australian Institute
of Technology, Perth; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; New England
Regional Art Museum, NSW; City of Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland;
Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Wollongong
City Gallery, NSW; Bar Association of New South Wales, Sydney; The
Australian Print Collection, Wagga Wagga; Regional Art Gallery, NSW