Opening Show

Aug 6 -Sept 11, 2021

Dean Brown, Jasper Knight, Ochre Lawson, Peta Minnici, Alicia Mozqueira, Oliver Watts 

All artists other than Ochre Lawson appear courtesy of Chalk Horse, Sydney

Exhibition views by Ashley Mackevicius

Dean Brown, Tomorrow Morning, 2021, oil on aluminium in powder coated steel frame, 45 x 30cm

Dean Brown, Tomorrow Morning, 2021, oil on aluminium in powder coated steel frame, 45 x 30cm

Dean Brown, The Space Between #2, 2021, oil on aluminium in powder coated steel frame, 45 x 30cm

Dean Brown, The Space Between #2, 2021, oil on aluminium in powder coated steel frame, 45 x 30cm

Dean Brown

b. 1981, Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Dean Brown is a Sydney based painter and printmaker known for his formal rendering of figures and objects that contain a characteristic stillness and speak to moments in time. In Brown’s paintings, there are two central components: the form and its shadow. Like a sundial, the shadow is cast onto vacant space and endows presence and drama onto the subject, creating a noir-like theatricality unique to still life painting.

Brown has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours at the National Art School. He also holds a Diploma of Design, TAFE, Sydney, and from 2000-07 studied Classical drawing and painting at the Julian Ashton Art School Sydney. Brown’s work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally. He has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize, Australian Print Triennial Prize, Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Mosman Art Prize and the Burnie Print Prize. He was awarded the Storrier Onslow National Art School Paris Studio Residency at Cite International des Arts, Paris in 2011.

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Dean Brown, It Works Out, 2020, oil on aluminium in powder coated steel frame, 45 x 30cm

Dean Brown, It Works Out, 2020, oil on aluminium in powder coated steel frame, 45 x 30cm

Jasper Knight, Exit to Disneyland, 2019, enamel, gloss acrylic, and gesso on cotton card, 150 x 102cm

Jasper Knight, Exit to Disneyland, 2019, enamel, gloss acrylic, and gesso on cotton card, 150 x 102cm


 
Jasper Knight, Mighty 1, 2017, enamel, gloss acrylic, and gesso on Arches paper, 102 x 76cm

Jasper Knight, Mighty 1, 2017, enamel, gloss acrylic, and gesso on Arches paper, 102 x 76cm


Jasper Knight

b. 1978, Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Jasper Knight is a Sydney-based artist who is known for his ability to blend industrial subject with hardware materiality in a primary colour palette. From 2005-2019 Knight has been a finalist in the Archibald prize seven times. He has been a finalist in the Wynne Prize four times, the Sulman prize twice and the Moran prize twice. He was awarded an Australia Council Emerging and Established New Work grant, the Freedman Foundation Scholarship and the Rocks Art Prize. He has also been a finalist in the Blake Prize, The ABN-Amro Prize, The Helen Lempriere, The Brett Whiteley Prize and was the 2008 winner of The Mosman Art Prize. In 2007 he opened Chalk Horse gallery with the generous support of the Australia Council and the City of Sydney. His work is in almost all NSW regional gallery collections, Artbank and the National Gallery of Australia.

His first major book is due at the end of the year published by Thames and Hudson.

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Ochre Lawson, Above the Tree Line, 2021, oil on canvas, 41 x 41cm

Ochre Lawson, Above the Tree Line, 2021, oil on canvas, 41 x 41cm


Ochre Lawson, Storm Trees, 2021, oil on canvas, 41 x 41cm

Ochre Lawson, Storm Trees, 2021, oil on canvas, 41 x 41cm


Ochre Lawson

b. 1968, Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Ochre Lawson’s paintings un pack her connection to the natural world. The paintings are intimate in their focus on microcosm and habitat. The mark making is loose and free, the bold landscapes fall into abstraction but  beam with positivity. Lawson captures the essence of a place, the vibrancy and wonder found in the works reflects a deep respect for the wilderness. This passion and connection to ecosystems grew from many years of work as an environmental activist. 

Ochre Lawson completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at National Art School, Sydney in 2007. Previous studies included a Diploma of Fine Arts at the Southbank Institute of TAFE, Brisbane in 2001and online studies in art theory and practice through RMIT in Melbourne. Lawson has exhibited widely in Australia as well as Internationally in New York. 

Lawson has been awarded public commissions for Urban Growth, Sydney (2015, 2016), NSW Transport (2014), and for Momac residential development in Canberra (2009). She has been a consistent finalist in art awards including the Muswellbrook Art Prize, the NSW Parliament Plein Air Prize, Waterhouse Natural Science art prize, The Fishers Ghost art prize, Greenway art prize, Defiance Small Sculpture Prize, the Northbridge Art Prize, the Gosford Regional Gallery Art Prize and the Waverley Woollahra Art Prize and has won awards in different categories. Ochre was selected as artist in residence at ‘Moriumius’ in Japan in 2017 and the ‘Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiative’ in the Blue Mountains, 2012-14. Lawson is also passionate with lecturing, frequently presenting talks and workshops as well as community art projects. Lawson is also a dedicated art tutor of over 15 years teaching at both private and public art schools in painting and drawing.

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Ochre Lawson, Valley in the Sky, 2021, oil on canvas, 120 x 120cm

Ochre Lawson, Valley in the Sky, 2021, oil on canvas, 120 x 120cm


Peta Minnici, Moon over Shoalhaven, 2021, oil on canvas, 61 x 61cm

Peta Minnici, Moon over Shoalhaven, 2021, oil on canvas, 61 x 61cm

Peta Minnici, Sun Setting on Bundanon, 2021, oil on canvas, 61 x 61cm

Peta Minnici, Sun Setting on Bundanon, 2021, oil on canvas, 61 x 61cm

Peta Minnici

b. 1990 Sydney Australia
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Peta Minnici is a Sydney based artist whose work encompasses oil painting, drawing and watercolour. Selecting subjects based on personal memory, her subjects range from humble figurative portraits and still life images to familiar landscapes and interior settings.

Minnici attended the Julian Ashton Art School and has completed a Bachelor and Master of Fine Art from the National Art School. In 2015 she was awarded the John Olsen Prize for Drawing, The Parkers Fine Art Award for Painting and the Parkers Fine Art Award for all Disciplines. In 2017 she was selected as a finalist for the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. In 2019 she was selected as finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize and in the same year awarded the Kedumba Drawing award. Her work is held in private and public collections throughout Australia.

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Peta Minnici, The Milk Vessels, 2018, oil on linen, 51 x 61cm

Peta Minnici, The Milk Vessels, 2018, oil on linen, 51 x 61cm

Peta Minnici, Night Lamp, 2018, oil on linen, 60 x 60cm

Peta Minnici, Night Lamp, 2018, oil on linen, 60 x 60cm

Alicia Mozqueira, Landscape 06, 2021, oil on linen, 122 x 152cm

Alicia Mozqueira, Landscape 06, 2021, oil on linen, 122 x 152cm

Alicia Mozqueira, Landscape 04, 2021, oil on linen, 92 x 122cm

Alicia Mozqueira, Landscape 04, 2021, oil on linen, 92 x 122cm

 

Alicia Mozqueira

b. 1992 Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney

Alicia Mozqueira graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art from the Australian National University School of Art and Design in 2013. She was a finalist in the Wynne Prize and in 2015 she was a finalist in the Archibald Prize with her portrait of art historian and curator Doug Hall AM. Mozqueira has been a finalist in the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award with her portrait of artist, eX De Medici. She has held solo exhibitions in Canberra and Melbourne and participated in group exhibitions in Canberra, Sydney and London. Her works are held in the ACT Legislative Assembly Collection and private collections internationally.

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Oliver Watts, The Mt Wilson Waterfall (Sketch), 2021, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 90cm

Oliver Watts, The Mt Wilson Waterfall (Sketch), 2021, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 90cm

Oliver Watts

b. 1976 Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Oliver Watts is a contemporary painter whose work delves into the historical, psychological and material possibilities of painting. A sustained subject is a way individuals navigate the complexity of the contemporary world. Watts often represents familiar scenes, or painterly genres, and undermines or retells them to create images for a more anxious state of politics and society. The paintings equivocate between high seriousness and the farcical; between historical genres and pop; between tableaux and painterly surface.

Trained as an art historian and curator, Watts has consistently exhibited his paintings. He received his MFA from SCA in 2016 for a series entitled Cordelia/Fool which featured Eryn Jean Norvill as the main protagonist. Watts often uses actors to pose in his works and to collaborate as writers as well as models to help generate gestures and poses that animate the narratives. Watts sometimes uses literary sources from Shakespeare, to Kafka, to Country Road Advertising, that help describe how our identities are created in a contemporary society, and what pressures help form our relationships with others and produce our own self-identity. Watts was a lecturer at SCA between 2011-2017 and is now a curator at Artbank.

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