Group Show

A group exhibition featuring works by Tony Clark, Dale Frank, Kathy Temin and Jenny Watson.

Exhibition Dates: 30 April – 23 May 2015

This show brings together the work of four of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery’s most established artists. With decades of cumulative experience between them, the exhibition showcases the creative force of their new work, as these artists continue to challenge, surprise and impress audiences in Australia and abroad.

Tony Clark’s new work continues his intermittent engagement with portraiture as a vehicle for sculptural painting. The dramatic ‘grisaille’ palette of the work recalls elements of his recent body of work, Jesus (2014). However, distinct within this new series of paintings is the evocation of a new subject – Renaissance portrait jewels. Hypothetical forms that are practicably possible, Clark’s new work integrates references to renaissance jewellery design, depicting luminescent pearls, patinated bronze and micro-mosaics in speculative, decorative compositions. In this, the work gestures to connections beyond the picture plane, to objects that are yet to be realised. 

Dale Frank is widely recognised for his masterful manipulation of the material of painting. His new work further experiments with surface, having moved from works created on canvas to employing acid and varnish over a base of plexiglass. In this new body of work, Frank returns to the medium of installation, incorporating kinetic figures and optical illusions in the creation of a scintillating surface.

Kathy Temin describes her work as “[engaging] with materiality, scale and site specificity to make sculptural objects and installations that encourage new readings of familiar materials in an unfamiliar form.” Combining monochrome, materiality and art history with references to suburbia, Temin discusses her new work as follows:

 “I have worked with synthetic fur as a material because it refers to the exaggerated emotional content in soft toy imagery, the human and the animal body and challenges ideals of taste. I have combined sources that are not normally associated together to generate new readings, including: minimalism with sentimentality, humour and pathos, remembrance and play.

In these new works the shelf, the plinth or support structure becomes an integrated part of the object. The cat scratcher, indoor planter boxes, topiary, chesterfield, and references to classicism combine the past with the present. Colour and material can be locators of a time and place, for instance purple references both 1970s suburbia as well as the confessional booths in Italian churches.”

Jenny Watson’s art practice is known for its sensitive deconstruction of the painting surface, and unique use of tactility and symbolism. Watson’s new work was made in both France and during her time as artist-in-residence at the University of Wollongong. Having collected velvet furnishing fabrics and organza during recent visits to France, she sourced old-fashioned underwear silk with fellow artist Madeleine Kelly at Wollongong University, before making the additional work under the campus trees. Watson’s new work is infused with these memories and a sense of dislocation, creating an atmosphere where Troyes, Anvers, Marnay-sur-Seine and Wollongong are interlaced.

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Dale Frank She lived with six cats and countless accusations, 2015; printed stainless steel and chrome on perspex; 210 x 210 x 65 cm; enquire
Dale Frank She lived with six cats and countless accusations, 2015
printed stainless steel and chrome on perspex
210 x 210 x 65 cm
Dale Frank Horizon 25’s, 2015; varnish on perspex discs on perspex; 210 x 210 cm; enquire
Dale Frank Horizon 25’s, 2015
varnish on perspex discs on perspex
210 x 210 cm
Dale Frank His escape Pod was measured tempered with a daily tipple of screen cleaning solution, 2015; varnish on anodised perspex; 210 x 210 cm; enquire
Dale Frank His escape Pod was measured tempered with a daily tipple of screen cleaning solution, 2015
varnish on anodised perspex
210 x 210 cm
Dale Frank Chinese Landscape 3 - love in custard, 2015; paint stripper and acid between perspex; 210 x 210 cm; enquire
Dale Frank Chinese Landscape 3 - love in custard, 2015
paint stripper and acid between perspex
210 x 210 cm
Dale Frank 73 Victoria Street off Horden Place adjacent to 105A Victoria Street apartment 1207, 2015; varnish and printed tape on perspex; 179 x 139 cm; enquire
Dale Frank 73 Victoria Street off Horden Place adjacent to 105A Victoria Street apartment 1207, 2015
varnish and printed tape on perspex
179 x 139 cm
Tony Clark Design for a Portrait Jewel (A.J.C), 2015; acrylic on canvas; 98 x 74 cm; enquire
Tony Clark Design for a Portrait Jewel (A.J.C), 2015
acrylic on canvas
98 x 74 cm
Tony Clark Design for a Portrait Jewel (G. and M.), 2015; acrylic on canvas; 99 x 74 cm; enquire
Tony Clark Design for a Portrait Jewel (G. and M.), 2015
acrylic on canvas
99 x 74 cm
Tony Clark Design for a Portrait Jewel (M.), 2015; acrylic on canvas; 99 x 68 cm; enquire
Tony Clark Design for a Portrait Jewel (M.), 2015
acrylic on canvas
99 x 68 cm
Tony Clark Design for a Portrait Jewel (S.L), 2015; acrylic on canvas; 163 x 77 cm; enquire
Tony Clark Design for a Portrait Jewel (S.L), 2015
acrylic on canvas
163 x 77 cm
Tony Clark Design for a Portrait Jewel (P.), 2015; acrylic on canvas; 163 x 80 cm; enquire
Tony Clark Design for a Portrait Jewel (P.), 2015
acrylic on canvas
163 x 80 cm
Tony Clark Fragmentary Section from Clark’s Myriorama with Jesus on the Road to Emmaus, 2014; acrylic on canvas; 317 x 87 cm; enquire
Tony Clark Fragmentary Section from Clark’s Myriorama with Jesus on the Road to Emmaus, 2014
acrylic on canvas
317 x 87 cm
Kathy Temin Purple Tree, 2015; Synthetic fur, steel, synthetic filling; 165 x 96 x 96 cm; enquire
Kathy Temin Purple Tree, 2015
Synthetic fur, steel, synthetic filling
165 x 96 x 96 cm
Kathy Temin Purple Garden, 2015; Synthetic fur, steel, synthetic filling; 194 x 60 x 60 cm; enquire
Kathy Temin Purple Garden, 2015
Synthetic fur, steel, synthetic filling
194 x 60 x 60 cm
Kathy Temin Purple Monochrome, 2015; Synthetic fur, steel, synthetic filling; 95 x 62 x 32 cm; enquire
Kathy Temin Purple Monochrome, 2015
Synthetic fur, steel, synthetic filling
95 x 62 x 32 cm
Kathy Temin Overgrown sideboard garden, 2007-; wood, steel, paint, synthetic fur, synthetic filling; 200 x 57 x 27 cm; enquire
Kathy Temin Overgrown sideboard garden, 2007-
wood, steel, paint, synthetic fur, synthetic filling
200 x 57 x 27 cm
Jenny Watson Black Swan, 2015; acrylic on french furnishing velvet with diamantes; 145 x 105 cm; enquire
Jenny Watson Black Swan, 2015
acrylic on french furnishing velvet with diamantes
145 x 105 cm
Jenny Watson Pale calf drinking, 2015; acrylic on rabbit skin glue primed French cotton with spotted netting overlay; 135 x 105 cm; enquire
Jenny Watson Pale calf drinking, 2015
acrylic on rabbit skin glue primed French cotton with spotted netting overlay
135 x 105 cm
Jenny Watson Mutual grooming, 2015; acrylic on insect pattern cotton; 120.5 x 79.5 cm; enquire
Jenny Watson Mutual grooming, 2015
acrylic on insect pattern cotton
120.5 x 79.5 cm
Jenny Watson Black Horse, 2015; acrylic on insect pattern cotton; 90.5 x 60.5 cm; enquire
Jenny Watson Black Horse, 2015
acrylic on insect pattern cotton
90.5 x 60.5 cm
Jenny Watson Girl in a dress, 2015; acrylic on insect pattern cotton; 91 x 61 cm; enquire
Jenny Watson Girl in a dress, 2015
acrylic on insect pattern cotton
91 x 61 cm
Jenny Watson Girl in a yellow slip, 2015; acrylic on rabbits skin glue primed antique silk; 70 x 50 cm; enquire
Jenny Watson Girl in a yellow slip, 2015
acrylic on rabbits skin glue primed antique silk
70 x 50 cm