Middle Mauve by Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson
Middle Mauve, 1979
Oil on canvas, 183 x 183 cm
Annual Rental $3,600

Strata by Anne Morrison
Anne Morrison
Strata, 2007
Acrylic on linen, 137 x 122
Annual Rental $1,200

A Quiet Corner Sydney Harbour by David Chapman
David Chapman
A Quiet Corner, Sydney Harbour, 1979
Oil on canvas, 71 x 51 cm
Annual Rental $500

Factories 6 by Mandy Martin
Mandy Martin
Factories 6, Undated
Oil on Canvas, 121 x 180 cm
Annual Rental $1,600


Artbank ebulletin - January 2009

TRAVELLING ART

While Artbank primarily offers direct support to artists by purchasing their works, we are also able to continue that support by agreeing to loans for significant exhibitions. Artbank is a key public resource that offers artists, curators and institutions access to works from its rich collection for solo retrospectives or major survey shows.

In one of the year’s most significant loans to Penrith Regional Gallery, Absaroka Light – a massive canvas from 1973 – was lent to Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings, which will take the work by this important late modernist to Melbourne and Adelaide. Similarly, a work by Gordon Bennett from the ‘Notes to Basqiat’ series has been touring out of the Ian Potter Centre: NGV, and five works by Eugene Carchesio can be seen at his retrospective Someone’s Universe: The art of Eugene Carchesio, at the Queensland Art Gallery.

Upcoming shows of note include Scottish-Tasmanian artist Anne Morrison’s solo at the Academy Gallery UTAS, Launceston; I walk the line: new Australian drawing at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring a standout work by the late Melbourne artist Cassandra Laing, and a long-overdue survey of the influential Sydney gallery, Gallery A, with key works by Lesley Dumbrell, Michael Johnson and Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, going on display at Newcastle Region Art Gallery this year.

Jackie Dunn
Senior Curator






ART AT WORK

Queensland based funds managers DDH Graham Limited were established in 1981, coincidentally the same year as Artbank. The firm have been terrific clients, renting from Artbank’s collection for more than a decade – both organisations are a growing success story.

This year DDH Graham Limited refreshed their selection by replacing maritime paintings by Brisbane artists Kenneth Jack and Ralph Wilson, with a dynamic selection of paintings loosely curated under the theme of the landscape people inhabit - be it industrial, pastoral or urban.

The result is an office invigorated with colour and movement, where figurative and more abstract oils and works on paper from artists such as Mandy Martin, Jeffrey Makin and Jill Noble, provide a welcoming ambience for staff and clients.

Joint Managing Director Peter Lockhart says, “It’s been a pleasure appreciating various works over the years. It’s a great way also to increase one’s understanding of contemporary art in Australia.”

Courtney Kidd
Art Consultant