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.

C&B Furtniture - We Now Have CAD

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We can even mix & match different timbers, colours and materials so you can see alternative versions of what the piece could potentially look like.

Click here for more info. or contact us at  furniture@chapmanbailey.com.au or   phone Macca or Mark on 03 99415 8666

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Last week of Chapman & Bailey March Artists Paper Sale

Come in and grab a bargain. 

 Ends this Saturday. 

 Phone/fax orders welcome.

@ Chapman & Bailey Artshop, Melbourne, 420 Johnston Street, Abbotsford, Vic.

Watercolour Papers, Printmaking Papers, Rolls, Packs and more.

Phone: (03) 9417 0500 / (03) 9417 7957 Fax : (03) 9417 3447

Arches Paper - Moulin De Larroque Handmade Paper - Stonehenge Paper

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Contact: Micheal Fitzgerald

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F: (03) 9417 3447

Karen Boulden - The Bones of Angels @ C&B Gallery

Opening @ C&B Gallery - Tuesday April 3,  6-8 pm

Karen Boulden - The Bones of Angels
2 - 21 April 2012

“These works are both elemental and mystical; carnal and spiritual.”

Chapman & Bailey Gallery is proud to present the debut solo exhibition of artist Karen Boulden.

Boulden has combined two animal by-products: the bones of road-killed native animals, and hand-dyed natural silks, extracting a strange new visual language from processes of pattern and chance.

Like manifestations of an otherworldly intelligence, these works draw attention to “…mysterious associations: arrangements of bones appear to suggest something else entirely and traces of residual markings hint at alchemical processes.

“These works are both elemental and mystical; carnal and spiritual. There are clear references to land, nature, art and culture, less obvious are the traces of stigmata and cicatrix – the scars left from wounds.

“Yet there is also an underlying symmetry: intelligence is at work, drawing on deep psychological associations of birth, life, death and decay, presenting bone configurations like hieroglyphs that might even have interested our stone-age forebears. Yet those ancients would not know of our natural world in rapid decline, overrun by technology and a speeding culture. There may be no better symbol of this than the bones of nocturnal native animals slain beside a busy road.”

– Essay extract, The Bones of Angels, Robert Hollingworth 2012

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Exhibition runs 2 - 21 April, Chapman & Bailey Gallery, 350 Johnston st, Abbotsford.



Chapman & Bailey Gallery 350 Johnston Street, Abbotsford, VIC 3067
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-5:30, Saturday 10:30-5:00 gallery@chapmanbailey.com.au      (03) 9415 8666

We thought you might be interested in this... Chapman & Bailey Artists Paper Sale March 2012

 
Watercolour Papers, Printmaking Papers, Rolls, Packs 
and more.
Download our March Paper Sale Price sheet to print here
Download an Paper Sale order form to print  here
 

We stock: 

Arches Paper, Moulin De Larroque Handmade Paper, Stonehenge Paper

Chapman & Bailey Artshop - Melbourne
420 Johnston Street, Abbotsford, Vic. 

Contact: Micheal Fitzgerald

E: artmaterials@chapmanbailey.com.au
T: (03) 9417 0500 / (03) 9417 7957
F: (03) 9417 3447

Opening Tonight @ C&B Gallery: The South Yarra Doodles - Works on Paper by Richard Besley

The South Yarra Doodles is a new body of work on paper by Melbourne-based artist Richard Besley. Dripped, rubbed, pushed and pulled across the paper, the pigment in these works acquires a life of its own. Through a process of working and reworking multiple layers of watercolour, pigment, oil stick and charcoal, the image unfolds as a force-field of clamouring surfaces.

In the past, Besley has been preoccupied with nature and natural processes. His earlier compositions are pared-back and mellow, offering up a commentary on those aspects of the physical world that fall somewhere between science and mystery, from the atmospheric conditions of Venus to the movements of tectonic plates.

The South Yarra Doodles represent a shift, both in approach and in context. Besley left his studio in the bush in St Andrews, travelled to New York and London, and returned to settle in South Yarra. As a result, Besley’s practice has opened out to processes of chance, experimentation and play. These works no longer find their origin in phenomena in the physical world. Instead, they are abstract in the purest sense, emerging out of unplanned improvisation. Suspending judgement, Besley has allowed colours to melt and collapse, and shapes to push against one another. This dynamic body of dense, subtle and intense work is born out of a strange form of chance guided by the artist’s hand.

The South Yarra Doodles is Besley’s fifth solo exhibition at Chapman & Bailey Gallery.

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Exhibition runs 5 - 24 March, Chapman & Bailey gallery, 350 Johnston st, Abbotsford. Phone: +61 3 9415 8666

Email: gallery@chapmanbailey.com.au

Come and check out our fabulous range of Da Vinci brushes at C&B art shops now

New shipment of Da Vinci Brushes in stock The quality, craftmanship and performance of Da Vinci brushes is unsurpassed. Da Vinci brushes are unique in their outstanding features. Da Vinci brushes are handmade using  top quality raw materials. They have excellent colour holding capacity, a lively elasticity and quickly regaintheir original shape when new paint is absorbed. All the features result in a highly precise, elastic instrument. Our brush assortment for oil, tempera and acrylic painting is as comprehensive as the many modern painting techniques. Flat or round-shaped, extra short - short - medium and long length, as well as fresco and filbert shape.   click for more info

Hi everyone, we hope you had a great holiday break.

Just letting you know that C&B Melbourne Artshop and C&B Brisbane are now open.
Come in and have a chat to Toby or Brad about how we might be able to help you in 2012

Toby @ Melb. Artshop:
420 Johnston St, Abbottsford Vic.
Phone: 03 9417 7957 / 03 9417 0500
artmaterials@chapmanbailey.com.au

Brad @ Brissie Artshop:
4 Byres St, Newstead, Queensland 4006
Phone: 07 3666 0028
enquire@chapmanbaileybrisbane.com