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

Download our March Paper Sale Price sheet to print here

Download an Paper Sale order form to print  here

Contact: Micheal Fitzgerald

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