When one first encounters the work of ROGER ACKLING the response is inevitably puzzling. Bits of wood with burned images on white walls. The label lists "sunlight on wood" as the medium. Sunlight on wood? Now the curiosity is aroused. The geometric burn marks are actually thousands of individual burn marks made by directing the suns rays through a magnifying glass. Ackling's relationship with the open air begins with finding his driftwood supports on long walks usually by the sea near his home in Norfolk. ... read more

BARKS for painting are taken from species of Eucalyptus tree and are cut and peeled from the tree during the wet season when they are supple enough to remove. The barks are then treated over fire to flatten and are primed with a light ochre... ... read more

GUY WARREN?S recent paintings are quite extraordinary indeed. Over the many decades he has spent as a practising artist, GUY WARREN has a certainly developed a distinctive style. ... read more

Next year will mark the fortieth anniversary of the passing of REGINALD WESTON at fifty-eight years of age. The late works we have chosen for this inaugural exhibition are a first taste of what will to be an ongoing representation, or rather unveiling, of a remarkable body of work. Further exhibitions are planned for Annandale, Osborne Samuel Gallery in London and a yet to be named venue in Israel. ... read more

Dynamic. New. Art. This is the work of the Omie women, from the Oro Province in Papua New Guinea at the South end of the Kokoda trail in the shadow of a volcanoe. ... read more

ANNANDALE GALLERIES first exhibited Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek in 2003. It was his first solo show after approximately 30 group exhibitions since 1975. Now, in 2006, we are pleased to announce another solo show of the great man?s work. ... read more

Annandale Galleries are pleased to announce an exhibition of rare graphics by American artist ED RUSCHA, in a medium that is particularly suited to his work and has therefore been an integral part of his oeuvre. ... read more

ANNANDALE GALLERIES are proud to present the first solo exhibition in Australia of the work of legendary American artist LARRY BELL. ... read more

New paintings & works on paper
OPENING Wednesday 24 August 6.30 ? 9.00 PM
EXHIBITION DATES 24 August ? 24 September 2005 ... read more

Saccadic Spaces is the latest exhibition of new works by Kevin Malloy. Over the last five years Annandale Galleries has had the pleasure of showcasing Malloy's work as it flourished from pieces austere in their execution and feel, featuring brighter colours amongst muted greys, to paintings that are truly celebratory in nature, featuring thousands of multicolour circles that, rather than hiding amongst subdued tones now spring forth, their presence exaggerated by the white disks that illuminate the fresh joyful colours. ... read more

In John Updike's 2002 novel, Seek My Face, the main character, a painter loosely based on Jackson Pollock's wife, Lee Kasner, tells a young interviewer: "Someone of your generation probably can't believe how crucial, how important, how huge painting seemed then."
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CATHY BLANCHFLOWER (B. 1971, lives and works in Melbourne) is an artist who has reached a watershed in her work. I would like to refer to it as "the end of the beginning". ... read more

The work of Andrew Leslie looks like painting, is technically sculpture and feels like architecture.  The common denominator in all three mediums is space. ... read more

Djambawa Marawili strides across many landscapes. A key figure in contemporary Yolngu art, he is the senior lawman of the Madarrpa clan, 130 people who live at Yilpara on Blue Mud Bay ... read more

Aboriginal artists have made a bold leap away from tradition ... read more