Chapman & Bailey Gallery

The Postal Workers' Social Club
Richard Denny -  Recent Work

10 – 29 September, 2012

Opening - Tuesday 11th September, 6-8pm
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Chapman & Bailey Gallery is delighted to present The Postal Workers' Social Club, a body of new work by Melbourne-based artist Richard Denny.

In these layered, bold compositions, members of The Post Office Worker's Social Club in a very small fictional European state quizzically return our gaze. The workers are often doubly flattened, painted within the painting and framed within the frame, and sandwiched between.

Denny's signature layered vintage maps. Within the logic of Denny's fictional world this makes sense: the Twelfth Club is a painting club, and the workers of the Postal Service have painted themselves. This layering of fact within fiction, also works its way back out to the “real” world.

The Postal Worker's Social Club finds an echo in the Ashington Group, a society of untrained artists comprised of British coal miners founded in 1934 and active until the 1980s. Like the “kitchen sink” art of social realism, the banal interiors and everyday encounters in Denny's series form an appealing fictional social record. Twentieth-century French painter Jean Dubuffet sought an “art which would start from this daily life...[forming] very direct and very sincere expressions of our real life and real moods.” Drawing on this, Denny's vivid body of work nonetheless plays out a charming internal logic of its own.

Richard Denny is a British-born artist who lives and works in Melbourne. 

This will be his 12th solo exhibition and his 3rd exhibition at Chapman & Bailey Gallery.

Opening - Tuesday 11th September, 6-8pm

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The exhibition runs from 10th - 29th September 2012 at Chapman & Bailey, 350 Johnston St, Abbotsford. 

T: 03 9415 8666   E: gallery@chapmanbailey.com.au

Beautiful paintings on canvas by Tibetan refugees available now to view/purchase on C&B Art Fido

Tibetan Art

Now available to view and purchase on Art FIdo click

Beautiful framed paintings on canvas by Tibetan refugees living in McLeod Ganj,

Dharamsala, North India. For more info/images click

Show runs 18th August - 1st September

C&B Gallery - Rhonda Dredge, Vanessa Beck 16th July – 4th August

C&B GALLERY

On Poor Street - Rhonda Dredge, Vanessa Beck

16th July – 4th  August 2012

Opening 21st July, 3-5pm

An installation of paintings, drawings and linocuts by Vanessa Beck and Rhonda Dredge.

The founder of free market economics Adam Smith postulated the presence of an invisible hand that directed the affairs of man. The hand guided an individual trader to maximise profits which in the long term benefited society as a whole. Smith invented an omniscient narrator, a philosopher economist who distanced himself from individual subjects and was able to imagine the invisible connections between them in terms of monetary value. Thus, the economic subject was born. The trouble with Smith’s theory, which still guides modern capitalist society, is that humans come in pairs and the dialogic nature of our culture is embedded in language. For every up there is a down; for every rich there is a poor. This exhibition explores that binary.

Sponsors: Gary Greene and Tom Forsell

The exhibition runs from 16th July - 4th August 2012 at Chapman & Bailey, 350 Johnston St, Abbotsford.

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Opening @ C&B - Geoff Tolchard - post-modem

Geoff Tolchard - post-modem
25 June – 14 July, 2012
Opening Tuesday 26 June 2012, 6-8pm
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Tune in to Channel Ten 5.25pm Opening night to watch weatherman Mike Larkin broadcast live from Geoff's show.
The exhibition runs from 24th June -14th July 2012 at Chapman & Bailey, 350 Johnston St, Abbotsford.

T: 03 9415 8666   E: gallery@chapmanbailey.com.au

Opening tomorrow night! Hedy Ritterman - To know a veil

 

Beautiful framing by Chapman & Bailey. 

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Tonight! Robbie Harmsworth @ Gallerysmith

Tonight! Robbie Harmsworth @ Gallerysmith, North Melbourne. Framing, plinths, neon bases made by C&B :-)

http://www.gallerysmith.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=69

Chapman & Bailey @ Hong Kong International Artfair 2012

Mark and Daina installing work for Tolarno Gallery, Hong Kong International Artfair. Artist: Brendan Huntley.