Jenny Orchard and Dale Richards

 

Jenny Orchard and Dale Richards

1 June – 24 June 2018

Opening Friday 1 June 2018 5.30pm

 

In this forthcoming exhibition, Dale Richards’s paintings will be shown in conjunction with the ceramic sculptures of Jenny Orchard. With these two artists, working in tandem, this show is promising to be a visual treat of two and three-dimensional pieces.

Dale Richards has been represented by Despard Gallery for over twenty years. His distinctive surrealist imagery, in oils and works on paper, are in numerous private and public collections, nationally and internationally. Dale had his first solo show at the age of sixteen. Fifty years on, the works have retained their energy, still edgy and at times challenging with robust figures, sailing boats and windswept seas. Dale lives in a beautiful small coastal community of South Arm, around 35 minutes out of Hobart, idyllic coastal views that have been inspirational in many of his works. – Steven Joyce, March 2018 

The Imagined Possibility of Unity was the name of my recent installation at the Sid Myer Ceramics Award exhibition at Shepparton Victoria. This new body of work continues to explore those ideas of community, inclusion and the way we see “outsiders” or those “other” to our accepted norms. They are creatures from my “Hidden Suburbs”. Creating spaces where communities thrive outside of normally accepted paradigms must begin with their imaginative conception. I create stories around my creatures which reflect legends and tales from the past, as well as engaging with a world of rapid change where species are drastically disappearing, and where genetic engineering and digital enhancements accelerate. The work of art and story, taking up discourses of the present and their connections with past is a continuing preoccupation in my work.

Whilst the narrative flow is important, the ways form, surface and colour can work together intrigues and challenges me. Ceramics can put life into form, provide endless colours and textures and give shape, energy and vitality to the constructed creature. My totems signify natural growth, change and endurance in our increasingly digitally constructed world. – Jenny Orchard, April 2018 

 

Gallery view Dale Richards and Jenny Orchard June 2018
Gallery view Dale Richards and Jenny Orchard June 2018
Gallery view Dale Richards and Jenny Orchard June 2018
Gallery view Dale Richards and Jenny Orchard June 2018

Jenny Orchard…

JENNY ORCHARD New World 2018 Indian Ink on colour paper 90 x 110 cm signed verso $3,250.00
JENNY ORCHARD New World 2018 Indian Ink on colour paper 90 x 110 cm signed verso $3,250.00
JENNY ORCHARD Studio works 2018 - DJ with dreads (right) ceramic with glazes 76 x 30 x 35 cm SOLD, Punk Dog ceramic with glazes 30 x 50 x 20 cm
JENNY ORCHARD Trans DJ with Dreadflowers 2018 earthenware with glaze and on-glaze enamels 76 x 35 x 30 cm signed under base SOLD
JENNY ORCHARD Trans DJ with Dreadflowers 2018 earthenware with glaze and on-glaze enamels 76 x 35 x 30 cm signed under base SOLD
JENNY ORCHARD Polka Cup 2018 earthenware with glaze and on-glaze enamels 12 x 20 x 10 cm signed under base $350.00
JENNY ORCHARD Black Mermaid 2017 Ceramic and gold on glazes 40 x 20 cm Signed under base $2,500.00
JENNY ORCHARD I dreamed of a Luminous Feminine Multispecies Power giving birth to a new world consciousness 2018 earthenware with glazes 62 x 33 x 22 cm SOLD
JENNY ORCHARD 2018 Pregnant ExRat earthenware with glazes 43 x 34 x 14 cm $3,500.00
JENNY ORCHARD Punk Dog 2018 Earthenware with glaze and on glaze enamels 29 x 33 x 15 cm SOLD
JENNY ORCHARD Punk Dog 5 2018 earthenware with glaze and on-glaze enamels 32 x 28 x 14 cm signed under base SOLD
Jenny Orchard 2018 Seamare with lost wing Earthenware and glazes 32 x 33 x 17 cm $2,950.00
Jenny Orchard 2018 Unicorn Bloom earthenware with glaze and on glaze enamels 49 x 24 x 24 cm $3,500.00
JENNY ORCHARD Chthonic Multi Creature with Black Boots 2018 earthenware with glaze and on-glaze enamels 70 x 33 x 24 cm signed under base $4,750.00
JENNY ORCHARD OncewasanAlbatross #hiddenoceans 2018 earthenware with glaze and on-glaze enamels 43 x 42 x 39 cm signed under base $2,950.00
JENNY ORCHARD Little One 2018 earthenware with glaze and on-glaze enamels 15 x 10 x 8 cm signed under base SOLD
JENNY ORCHARD Seabird (detail) 2018 earthenware with glaze and on-glaze enamels 78 x 30 x 35 cm signed under base $4,500.00
JENNY ORCHARD Seabird 2018 earthenware with glaze and on-glaze enamels 78 x 30 x 35 cm signed under base $4,500.00
JENNY ORCHARD Aided Eye Phytoplankton 2018 earthenware with glaze and on-glaze enamels 44 x 30 x 30 cm signed under base $2,750.00

 

Dale Richards….

DALE RICHARDS Punch and Judy oil on canvas 51 x 61 cm SOLD
Dale Richards Arrival 2005 oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm signed LR SOLD
DALE RICHARDS 2005 Femme Octopus 40 x 40 cm oil on canvas signed LR $2,500.00
DALE RICHARDS 2014/18 Spheres II oil on board 41 x 51 cm signed LR $2,950.00
DALE RICHARDS Storm Weather 2018 oil on board 46 x 61 cm $3,500.00
DALE RICHARDS The Front 2017 oil on panel 82 x 202 cm SOLD
DALE RICHARDS Long Night 2016 Oil on panel 82 x 202cm SOLD
DALE RICHARDS A day at the Bluff 2017 oil on board 122 x 122 cm signed LR SOLD
DALE RICHARDS The chase 2016 oil on canvas 76 x 51cm signed LR $3500
DALE RICHARDS Sleeping Out 1995 oil on board 122 x 91.5 cm signed and titled verso SOLD
Dale Richards 2011 Ascent oil on canvas 51 x 61 cm $3,500.00