Diablo Mode - "Accident Prone"

Accident Prone
Opening Tuesday 23 April, 6:30 - 8:00pm

The sculptures in this show represents the moods, memories, habits and routines of the artist. 

As Baskets, they are stripped of function and exist purely for decoration. Their purpose isn't to hold fruit, car keys, coins or anything else that gets thrown in a bowl, but rather emotion and ideas.

Being self taught, Diablo's work is free from cultural constraint and tradition, which gives him a high degree of creative freedom.

Drawn to the etchings of Ernst Haeckel (Artforms in Nature) and Alburtus Seba (Natural Curiosities) who both focussed on art forms in the natural world, Diablo draws inspiration from the mathematics of nature.

Come to the opening: Tuesday 23 April 6:30 - 8:00PM

ESD Gallery

East Sydney Doctors

102 Burton St

Darlinghurst (opposite the National Art School)

Peter Aland at ESD

Opening Tuesday 26 February, 6:00 - 8:00pm




If we put aside for a moment our hopes and fears, and allow our environment, internal and external to snap shot in our minds not a stagnant photograph of the individuals, strangers and familial people who pass by daily but a story that begins to unfold. Without following the story yet knowing it is playing out in our minds and dreams, conscious and uncouscious the virgin canvas becomes the untold story, half remembered, not forgotten. 

The Automatic Response Technique is the play and twist of the arm in response to the releasing of the stored stories, each individual person unique, mine just happens to be a small arc with a twisty spin of the brush followed by a flat dab while counting 3s, 5s, and 2s. Quite a mundane and repetitive process really but I love the melody and colour the paints and brush strokes provide. I do have hopes that painting and creating images has a higher purpose, I believe aspirations come true as I paint. Aspirations are never owned by one individual in the same way as an images meaning is never owned by the practitioner or viewer. Both become shared experiences. If a painting means nothing to the viewer it could very well be opening up more of its story than if the painting was immediately liked or disliked. 

On the other hand if you like a painting for no other reason than its colour is your favourite or it matches your curtains feel free to consult me in regards to the other paintings you will need to add as contrasts to the room.

Come to the opening: Tuesday 26 February 6:00 - 8:00PM

ESD Gallery

East Sydney Doctors

102 Burton St

Darlinghurst (opposite the National Art School)

Sadie Chandler

Opening Tuesday 30 October, 6:45pm - 8:00pm

Sadie Chandler has exhibited widely over the past twenty years in artist run initiatives, dealer galleries and institutions. Works are held in National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and other major and private collections. Chandler works across a variety of mediums embracing sculpture, painting, drawing, video, installation and wallpaper.

For Stuff for Aches & Pains 2012, Chandler created a series of paintings on canvas using her distinctive style of floating objects on flat backgrounds. Individual works vary but are united by a playful, animated approach which extends beyond decoration. Chandler has encountered and overcome personal medical obstacles but this work should not be taken as documentation of her journey, or as whimsical ephemera. Included in Stuff for Aches and Pains are scatter pieces, tiny objects of flotsam and jetsam from everyday life, medical paraphernalia, pills and bottles as well as larger single images. Stuff for Aches and Pains is a celebration of the rhythmic pattern and nuances of still life.

For more information about Sadie Chandler visit: www.sadiechandler.com

Come to the opening: Tuesday 30 October 6:45 - 8:00PM

ESD Gallery

East Sydney Doctors

102 Burton St

Darlinghurst (opposite the National Art School)

Gunter Christmann

Opening Tuesday 18 September, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Show runs 18 Septermber  - 27 October2012

GUNTER CHRISTMANN (b. 1936, Germany)
Christmann's career has spanned more than forty years since he arrived in Sydney, from Berlin, in 1959.

Christmann first came to prominence during the 1960s, exhibiting European inspired hard edged abstraction. Associated with the important Central Street Gallery, Christmann's work was included in the seminal The Field exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1968. Through this personal association with colourfield and hard edged painting, Christmann has created unique quotations and idiosyncratic variations on these styles in his later work. In a series exhibited at the Act XII: New Works on Paper exhibition, Christmann ‘'tagged" colour photocopies of one of his paintings from 1967.

Christmann's paintings have featured in important exhibitions in Australia and overseas and he was chosen to represent Australia at the 1971 Sao Paulo Biennial. The National Gallery of Australia has a larger collection of works by Gunter Christmann than any other contemporary Australian artist. He currently resides in Sydney.

Come to the opening: Tuesday 18 September 6:30 - 8:00PM

ESD Gallery

East Sydney Doctors

102 Burton St

Darlinghurst (opposite the National Art School)

E Pulie Transitional Work

Opening Tuesday 7 August, 6:30 - 8
Show runs 7 August - 14 September 2012

Philip Juster Show at ESD

Philip Juster at ESD

2 July - 4 August 2012

Tamara Mendels

Recipient of two Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Prizes (2005 and 2007), Cady’s Memorial Art Prizes (2006),and the Woollahra Art Prize (2005).

Come to the opening: Tuesday 15 May 6:30 - 8:30PM

Show runs until the end of June. 

ESD Gallery

East Sydney Doctors

102 Burton St

Darlinghurst (opposite the National Art School)

Just a block from Taylor Square