with Mary Scott, Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Josh Foley, Peter Poulet and more...
ART AND OBJECT
a group show
Opening Wednesday 2 May 2018
2 May – 27 May 2018
Despard Gallery is welcoming Tjanpi Desert Weavers to join the collection! We are happy to announce that we will be stocking works from the Alice Springs based gallery and introducing new artists in our ART AND OBJECT exhibition.
Tjanpi Desert Weavers available stock…. (for full catalogue please contact gallery)
Tjanpi Desert Weavers and painting by Sam Field
Tjanpi Desert Weavers, baskets, sizes vary - please contact gallery for more info
Tjanpi Desert Weavers, sculptures, sizes vary - 'Red dog' SOLD, please contact gallery for more info
MARY SCOTT The Whimsy Series 2018
The winter afternoon gives way to night. The ill ink-black sky is pierced by jagged stars and a moon like a microscope’s eyepiece. The trees, sentry-like, cast their shadows across the pillared portico of the Museum’s entrance. Inside, between the second floor and the gabled roof, was once a residence with rooms of high ceilings and tall windows. For nigh on forty years my great-grandfather lived there with my great-grandmother and his two children.
These rooms are now the offices of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston. In my forbear’s day, the walls in the study and day rooms were lined with massive bookcases and glass- fronted cupboards, formidable backgrounds for Victorian and Edwardian bric-a-brac. Shell curios, natural oddities, butterflies and small stuffed, brightly coloured birds perched on mossy twigs under protecting glass domes, vied for attention among the little delicately hand-painted Venetian glass Moser-ware vases from Germany and other objects d’art.
My great-grandfather was a museum curator and scientist who held a life-long passion for the intricate designs, wondrous marvels and spectacles of nature. I like to think that I am carrying on his obsession as I, too, am drawn to its vivid and patterned forms, its minutiae and exquisite variation. In the quest to create and invent, humans, from the earliest times, have vied with nature’s designs. These sculptures, made of found glass, metal objects and artificial plants, continue my preoccupation with the symbiotic relations of nature and culture, between things that are natural and those that are artificial and manufactured. They reflect, too, an enduring fascination with Victorian decorative arts.
Mary Scott The Whimsy Series, 2018, series of seven sculpture, no. 5 sold.
MARY SCOTT Whimsy I 2018 recycled find objects, mixed media and paint approx. 100 cm high signed at base $2,500.00
MARY SCOTT Whimsy II 2018 recycled find objects, mixed media and paint approx. 100 cm high signed at base $2,500.00
MARY SCOTT The Whimsy Series - Whimsy III (detail), 2018, glass and paint,Tasmanian oak, approx. 100 cm high, base included
Mary Scott 2016
World In Things 111
Charcoal and pastel on paper
136 x 100 cm
SOLD
Mary Scott 2016
World In Things 11
Charcoal and pastel on paper
136 x 100 cm
SOLD
ART AND OBJECT 2018 Mary Scott gallery view
Josh Foley…
JOSH FOLEY
Wild Bunch I
2015
oil on canvas
97 x 82 cm
signed verso
$5,500.00
JOSH FOLEY
Wild Bunch III
2015
oil on canvas
97 x 82 cm
signed verso
$5,500.00
JOSH FOLEY
Wild Bunch III
2015
oil on canvas
97 x 82 cm
signed verso
$5,500.00
Gallery view -Josh foley paintings - English art & craft chair.
JOSH FOLEY Song of the scorpio 2017 Oil and Acrylic, resin , putty, impastomedium and moulding on board 42 x 67 cm Signed Verso $5,900
JOSH FOLEY Cherchez la femme 2017 Oil, acrylic, resin, putty, impasto medium and moulding on board 42 x 67 cm Signed verso $5,900
Asian Art and Object…
Japanese stoneware vase
Dated (in script) to 1820 (#4)
Vase probably 17th century (Yurie-zu)
Devils, demons, ghosts – rare subject on ceramics: visually found in woodblock prints by Hokusi etc.
36.5 cm high x 26.5 cm diameter
$6,250.00
Japanese stoneware vase
Dated (in script) to 1820 (#4)
Vase probably 17th century (Yurie-zu)
Devils, demons, ghosts – rare subject on ceramics: visually found in woodblock prints by Hokusi etc.
36.5 cm high x 26.5 cm diameter
$6,250.00
Japanese stoneware vase
Dated (in script) to 1820 (#4)
Vase probably 17th century (Yurie-zu)
Devils, demons, ghosts – rare subject on ceramics: visually found in woodblock prints by Hokusi etc.
36.5 cm high x 26.5 cm diameter
$6,250.00
ART AND OBJECT gallery view - Japanese prints from $1,250 - $2,500 and stoneware vase $6,250.00
Kasmir Collapsible dragon table
Srinagar, circa 1910 (#11)
Wood, carved, with iron hinges, folding base
65 x 68 x 66 cm
$6,250.00
Kasmir Collapsible dragon table
Srinagar, circa 1910 (#11)
Wood, carved, with iron hinges, folding base
65 x 68 x 66 cm
$6,250.00
ART AND OBJECT gallery view - Kasmir folding screen $2,500.00 and Kasmir Collapsible dragon table $6,250.00
Japanese cane woven tray
Meiji Period, circa 1900 (#3)
Cane
67 x 67.5 cm
$975.00
Japanese cane woven tray
Meiji Period, circa 1900 (#3)
Cane
67 x 67.5 cm
$975.00
Meiji period Japanese carved wooden bowl
Circa 1900 (#9)
Carved wood
25 x 40 x 28 cm
$595.00
Meiji period Japanese carved wooden bowl
Circa 1900 (#9)
Carved wood
25 x 40 x 28 cm
$595.00
Japanese cane tray, wooden carved basket and woodblock print
Chinese boxwood carving of Shou Lao figure (#12)
circa 1780 – 1820
77 cm high
Gallery view, Chinese 19th c Court gown
Chinese boxwood carving of Shou Lao figure (#12)
circa 1780 – 1820
77 cm high
$22,500.00
Saito Kiyoshi (1907 – 1997)
Faces Study
1950’s
20 x 32cm
Woodblock on paper
Framed
SOLD
Ono Bakufu
Circa 1888 - 1976
Dai Nimon Gyokui Gasmu
Published by Nishimomna Shoin: 1930 -1940 – woodblock on paper
28 x 39 cm (framed)
$1,575.00
Hasui Kawase (1883 -1957) (#7)
Snow Tree Three Figures
Woodblock on paper
36.5 x 24 cm framed
SOLD
Peter Poulet….
Peter Poulet's new works, 2018, ART AND OBJECT exhibition
Peter Poulet's new works, 2018, ART AND OBJECT exhibition
PETER POULET
Beak Peak
2018
acrylic on recycled cardboard packaging paper
30 x 30 cm (unframed)
signed front
$1,450.00
PETER POULET
Cassock
2017
acrylic on recycled cardboard packaging paper
73 x 57 cm (unframed)
signed front
$1,850.00
PETER POULET
Diaghilev
2017
acrylic on recycled cardboard packaging paper
83 x 73 cm (unframed)
signed front
$1,850.00
PETER POULET
ISS
2018
acrylic on recycled cardboard packaging paper
64 x 53 cm (unframed)
signed front
$1,550.00
PETER POULET
Kabuki
2018
acrylic on recycled cardboard packaging paper
29 x 58 cm (unframed)
signed front
$1,375.00
PETER POULET
Wash Away
2017
acrylic on recycled cardboard packaging paper
74 x 82 cm (unframed)
signed front
$1,850.00
Despard Gallery is now member of the Indigenous Art Code
