Carlton
3 - 24 May 2013
Barry Dickins' career as a painter took off with a solo exhibition at Bottoms Gallery in Carlton in 1973. He followed this with a thirty year detour into publishing books, writing plays and working as a columnist for The Nation Review, The Australian, The Age, the Herald Sun and the Melbourne Times.
But then, starting with his solo show at William Mora Gallery in 2004 and subsequently with us. Barry returned to his first love, drawing and painting, producing artworks that chart his whimsical delight in Melbourne's streets and the magical characters who inhabit them.
Using ink, chalk and charcoal or more often brilliant colour, Barry's art is a contemplation - a landscape of dreams where sadness, joy, repose and the grotesque journey together through the pathways of the mind.
An exhibition of all the animals we have found hiding in the gallery
20 Feb - 6 March 2013
paintings, drawings, prints or sculpture by William Strutt, Harold Herbert, Arthur Esam, Jessie Traill, Edward Warner, Sidney Nolan, Max Martin,
Danila Vassilieff, Clifford Bayliss, Francis Lymburner, Murray Griffin, Eric Thake, Mary Macqueen, Mary Hammond, Peter Trusler, Judy Warne,
Giorgio de Chirico, Edouard Armand-Dumaresq, Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth and Gwen Wilkinson
Additional works are by Dion Beasley, Peter Brown, Kevin Foley, Sarah Gabriel, David Beattie, Ethleen Palmer, J. T Wilson, Julian Smith, Joan Russell, Sakina Jones and Nada Hunter
We have featured many maritime paintings over the last 30 years. Here are some currently available
Contact the gallery to see any of these works
10 - 22 December 2012
100 paintings, drawings and prints
all priced under $1,500
artists include Honoré Daumier, John Glover, William Strutt, Oswald Brierly, John Skinner Prout, Derwent Lees, Harold Herbert, Maximillian Luce, Norbertine von Bresslern Roth, Lionel Lindsay, Hall Thorpe, Danila Vassilieff, Donald Friend, Vic O'Connor, Mary Macqueen, Noel Counihan, Dion Beasley, Marina Strocchi and many more
All the works will be up on the website shortly
Untrodden - Recent acquisitions
17 - 30 Nov 2012
Six decades of Observations & Agitations
8 - 28 September 2012
Shoppers in Richmond, Ivanhoe, Northcote, Acland St., Carlton and Prahran;
protesters at Albert Park; fishermen at Williamstown; shearers at Millicent; meatworkers; Anzac Day Marches; changing face of Docklands and more
exhibition opens Saturday 8th September 12 - 5pm
Meet the artist and join us for champagne and cheese
Early 20th C European Works on Paper
Watercolours, drawings and prints: artists include Maurice de Vlaminck, Maurice Utrillo, Giorgio de Chirico , André Masson, Pierre Bonnard, Martin E. Philipp, Chas Laborde, Charles Conder, Maximilien Luce and others
Paintings, sculptures and prints from Ngaruwanajirri Inc. & Tiwi Design
collected during my recent trip to Bathurst Island, NT
Collected during a recent trip to Bathurst Island
Post-War Russian Realist Paintings
1st - 24th March 2012
An exhibition of paintings and oil sketches in conjunction with John Barkes, London
This is our tenth exhibition Russian Paintings.
Our good friend John Barkes has been visiting St Petersburg 4 or 5 times a year for the last 20 years. He was interviewed by Natalia Tsygankova from the Russian media at the opening. An article appeared in the Russian newsapaper on Monday and will be on Channel 31 Friday 16th March at 2 pm. more
2 - 23 December 2011
100 Australian and European paintings, drawings and printspriced under $1,500
Clifford Bayliss 1912-1989
Paintings, drawings and gouaches 1940s - 1980s
from the estate of the artist, London
17th September - 8th October 2011
Drawings and Prints Modern Australia Paintings
Featured in this exhibition are a collection of drawings from the estate of celebrated actress, Monica Maughan. Artists include Clifford Bayliss, Lloyd Rees, Russell Drysdale, John Perceval and Shay Docking.
Also included are attractive works by Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Noel Counihan, Donald Friend, Eric Thake, Danila Vassilieff and others. Other old friends that have come back to see us are by Donald Friend, Thea Proctor, Judy Cassab, Kenneth Rowell, Sidney Nolan and others
current until 27 August 2011
Recent exhibitions have included Mary Hammond, Six decades of Observations and Agitations and Early Australian Watercolours and Drawings and Paintings from St. Petersburg
Some works from these exhibitions are still on show.
gallery is open Wed - Fri 11 - 5pm, Sat 12 - 5 pm
Early Australian Watercolours and Drawings
A collection of affordable, attractive works by important artists including Edward Roper, John Glover, Louis Wood, E. Wake Cook, Frederick Garling, William Strutt, Oswald Brierly, Conrad Martens, Arthur Esam, A. H. Fullwood, B E Minns, Gordon Coutts, David Davies, W. Blamire Young, G V F Mann, Jean Sutherland, Charles Douglas Richardson, Harold Herbert, Janet Cumbrae Stewart, Tom Garrett, Lloyd Rees and J. W. Tristram,
The exhibition continues until 22 May.
Between exhibitions the gallery is open by appointment ph 0419 306593
8 - 23 December 2010
100 Australian and European
paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture
all priced under $1,500
Some works are reduced for the Christmas Exhibition but will be marked back up if unsold
Nick Botting - In Melbourne
Nick Botting -In Melbourne
15 October - 6 November 2010
An exhibition of paintings by celebrated Plein Air English painter Nick Botting. Pellegrini's; Florentino's Cellar Bar; the Universita in Carlton; the Royal Show; the beaches of Hampton and Brighton and on a very stormy day, Airey's Inlet. Only he took his paints with him! This exhibition is the result of his travels.
23 May - 13 June 2010
Including William Buelow Gould, Robert H. Dowling, J. H. Carse, A. E. Aldis, J. W. Curtis, J. A. Turner, J. H. Scheltema, A. H. Fullwood, A. W. Strutt, Hugh Ramsay, Charles Conder, Derwent Lees, Jessie Traill, Josephine Muntz-Adams, Bessie Davidson, Charles Bryant, Robert Campbell, Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth, Percy Lindsay, Gordon Coutts, Adrian Feint, H. R. Gallop and John D. Moore
A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies this exhibition and is available from the gallery
Eric Thake - Fifty Years of Christmas cards 1929-1980
featuring the collection of Clive and Dorothy Stephen
Kay Stewart - Travels with a Sketchbook
Travels With a Sketchbook
45 years of sketching, painting, illustrating and printmaking
28 September - 17 October 2009
There are 70 works in the exhibition, bellow are the works still available
Early Australian Watercolours and Drawings
24 July - 15 August 2009
Artists include H. C. Allport, Howard Ashton, Julian Rossi Ashton, J. G. Brown, Nicholas Chevalier, Alfred T. Clint, Gordon Coutts, Arthur Esam, Gerald Fitzgerald, Rah Fizelle, William Ford, A. H. Fullwood, W. H. Gibbs, John B. Godson, Albert Hansen, Carlyle Jackson, John Lewin, Iso Rae, John Peter Russell, William Strutt, C. E. S Tindall, Jessie Traill, John E. Ward and Thomas Wright
drawings and pastels
3 - 22 March 2009
A terrific exhibition of drawings from the studio. Very few of her drawings left her studio during her lifetime. That is why such a fine selection is still possible. Subjects include Tower Hill; Port Fairy; Bendigo; Ararat; Gippsland; Eildon; Newcastle; Sydney; Auckland and other New Zealand subjects.
There are 44 works in the exhibition
10 - 31 October 2008
We hold regular exhibitions of Paintings from St. Petersburg in conjunction with London dealer, John Barkes.
In this exhibition the works come directly from artists' studios in Siberia and the Crimea as well as St. Petersburg. All are professional artists and members of a Union of Artists. Many are represented in Russian museums and, since the Gorbachev reforms of the 1980s, their paintings are increasingly seen in galleries in the U.K., Europe, America and, most recently, China. Among them are many artists who trained and taught at St Petersburg's prestigious Repin Academy.
2 - 21 September 2008
Some of the features in the latest exhibition include Arthur Boyd's The Prodigal Son 1946-47; three works by Noel Counihan; two Melbourne scenes by early Melbourne modernist Isabel Tweddle and four works by Sidney Nolan.
James Cant 1911-1982
Works on paper
1 to 18 April 2008
16 November - 5 December 2007
Paintings, drawings and sculptures
from the estate of the artist in London
Born in 1912, a Footscray boy, Bayliss won the 1935 travelling scholarship at the National Gallery School. The following year he left for London and never returned.
12th - 30th November 2004 - Clifford Bayliss was born in Footscray in 1912. He attended the National Gallery School between 1931 and 1935. In December 1935 he won the Travelling Scholarship amidst a blaze of publicity. He was somewhat of a legend at the art school. According to the late Alan McCulloch, "...the NGV was the only place for young aspiring artists....the star was Clifford Bayliss who could draw like Leonardo, and was a bohemian when it was not done. Bayliss was very poor and did these beautiful drawings, and seemed destined to win the travelling scholarship, which he did." ..... Conversations with Alan McCulloch by Christopher Heathcote, Art Monthly, April 1993, no. 58, page 15
Clifford Bayliss left Australia in 1936 and never returned but was always planning a show of his work here
