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

"History" (Mardi Gras Years: 1978-2013)

"History" (Mardi Gras years: 1978-2012) 

35 Works by Anton Parsons
Opening Monday 2 April 6:30 - 8:30PM

Show runs 2 April - 12 May

As a sculptor Anton Parsons is known for his belief in shape, texture and colour. In repetition and sequences, lucky combinations and topsy-turviness.
Here he shows 35 works on paper. Simply titled “History” (1978-2012 Mardi Gras years), he deals with years and numbers, and the memories they hold. They jumble, condense, overlap.
Sometimes years are reminders. Reminders of people hurt, of great bloody disasters, car crashes and ambulance trips. Or long periods doing shitty unloved jobs.
Or years to rejoice. Where we emerged blinking, smiling, happy.
So remember and rejoice with Anton Parson’s works, pour your own meaning into each, or see them whole as a generation.

Come to the opening: Monday 2 April 6:30 - 8:30PM

ESD Gallery

East Sydney Doctors

102 Burton St

Darlinghurst (opposite the National Art School)

"13 Stories" Dirk Kruithof

Dirk Kruithof’s 13 Stories - focused on Text, Abstractions and Erasures - signs and symbols from the everyday rub shoulders with snippets of information from the virtual world and gestural marks add layers of colourful interference.

A 'sneaky' little show from 15 March - 31 March, so you'll have to be quick!

ESD Gallery

East Sydney Doctors

102 Burton St

Darlinghurst (opposite the National Art School)

Exceptional Xmas Exhibition

Exceptional Xmas Exhibition at ESD Gallery
Wednesday 14 December, 6:30-8:00
All welcome.

Group show. Come along and have a drink with the artists:
Guy Brown
Nathan Hawkes
Kevin McKay
Melita Oram
Troy Quinliven
Andrew Sullivan
Delia Vilhelm

East Sydney Doctors

102 Burton St

Darlinghurst (opposite the National Art School)

ROBIN CLARE | White Noise | Opening Wednesday 24th August 6.30 - 8pm

The End is Not the End, ink and acrylic on paper, 40 x 50 cm

ESD Gallery is proud to present 'White Noise', a new exhibition by international artist Robin Clare. Born and raised in Jamaica, with a degree from the prestigious Camberwell College of Art in the culturally diverse area of South-East London, Clare is now based in Sydney presenting a body of work that explores her interests in a way that  collates her accumulation of  experience. This new show brings together work spanning the development of Clare's practice in terms of collecting discarded objects from urban environments, placing them alongside African-inspired patterns (taken from the fabric shops of South London) and high-impact text that is reminiscent of eye-catching Jamaican club night posters and commercial advertising. 

Washing Machine on Blue, oil and acrylic on canvas, 100cm x 100cm

Exhibition dates | 22nd August - 9th October

Opening | Wednesday 24th August 6.30 - 8.30 pm

To see the catalogue, please click here. 

www.robinclare.com

ESD Gallery

102 Burton Street

Darlinghurst, 

NSW 2010

(02)9 332 2531

Contact: esdgallery@gmail.com

Delia Vilhelm | paintings

Pastorale, oil on canvas, 90 x 30 cm 

"My work speaks of place and memory and combine various elements of Australia, the place where I have arrived and now live, and Europe, the place I have journeyed from and once lived. My mining background and heritage determine my interest in the centuries old struggle between the forces of industry and nature.While my works are inspired by a strongly narrative element grounded in the context of my own personal experience and history, much of my painting is devoid of figuration and extraneous detail. Large areas are left undefined, empty of fuss and unnecessary congestion. I leave these dark holes for the viewer to peer into and struggle through. For me, drawing and painting are both journeys through layers. My paintings are intensively worked, scrapped back repeatedly and reconfigured, looking for something that is unified, full and ordered. In my works the sheer physicality of paint, its density and the archaeology of the layers, its application and movement across the surface is inseparable from the content. I believe it’s not enough to simply describe what we see, one has to recreate the landscape in painterly form by simplifying and accentuating so that we can understand the truth and tensions that exist therein."

- Delia Vilhelm, 2011

Hartley Valley, oil on canvas, 95 x 90 cm

For more information, or for a full catalogue of the show please email us by clicking here. 

Giovanna Marelli

Opening Wednesday 20 April 6:30-8:00PM
Memories - tales of truth, wonder and ambiguity.

(Pardon the shakey cam)

Memories - Giovanna Marelli

Opening - 6:30PM-8:00PM Wednesday 20 April
Show runs from March 30 to early May

ESD Gallery - East Sydney Doctors

102 Burton St, Darlinghurst

Just a block from Taylor Square

Show runs from early April to early May

Come gather round on Wednesday 20 April.

Christmas Show

Christmas is a time to give and to receive – to this token, ESD Gallery is putting together a show that we hope will benefit both artists and patrons...
For the final exhibition of the year, we will be compiling work that can be offered as presents... everything under $1000!

Please join us for a festive drink at the opening on

Thursday 16th December 6.30 - 8pm

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ESD Gallery
102 Burton Street,
Darlinghurst, NSW 2010
(02)9332 2531
Open: Mon-Thurs 8am-7pm
Fri 8am-6pm
Sat 9am-1pm
www.esdgallery.blogspot.com

Jane Stadermann

Jane Stadermann - Masked Lion, 2010
Oil on canvas, 92 x 92 cm

ESD Gallery is delighted to present a solo show of new paintings by Jane Stadermann... Mythology, Folklore & Fiction is a body of work that transports you through a portal from this reality to another; a journey marked by vigilante lions, the flight of the phoenix, and apple-eating ogres.

Please come and join us for a drink at the opening

Tuesday 30th November
6.30 - 8 pm


102 Burton Street
Darlinghurst,
NSW 2010

You can see more of Jane's work here.

Motherhood Breast Cancer Fundraiser

Putting art to a good cause, ESD Gallery is proud to be a part of this exciting show and very worthwhile cause. Please do come down to show your support and help us raise money for The Breast Cancer Foundation. 


Opening Tuesday 19th October, 6.30-8.30pm. 

East Sydney Salon

The East Sydney Salon

21st September – 9th October

Peter Aland - Jabour Becker - Philippa Hagon - Mark Joseph - Gretchen Keelty

Jane McGowan - David McLeod - Barry Peacher - Daniel Small  - Linda Sweeny

Remnim Tayco - Louise Tuckwell - Meredith Williams

Drawing on the tradition of the Academic Salon of 18th Century Paris, ESD Gallery is compiling a Salon show for contemporary times. Bringing together artists working in a variety of disciplines, but conceding to the Academic ‘genre’ structure, work will be divided into the categories of still life, landscape and portraiture. Traditionally, the Salon created a space for discourse, reflection and appreciation of the work of emerging artists… we strive to do the same.

Come and join us for a drink at the opening on Tuesday 21st September, 6.30 - 8pm.

102 Burton Street,

Darlinghurst,

NSW 2010

contact: esdgallery@gmail.com

Charlie Sheard

ESD Gallery is delighted to present EROS, a solo show by celebrated abstractionist Charlie Sheard. This will be Sheard's first ever exhibition of exclusively figurative work, showcasing a body of work distinctly different to his expansive abstract colourscapes. In 2008 Sheard devoted himself to life drawing for twleve months as a means of finding a greater connection to the body within his practice as an abstract painter. This exciting show presents the results of this extended period of enquiry.


Come and join us for a drink at the opening on Tuesday 3rd August, 6.30-8pm

102 Burton Street, Darlinghurst, 2010

contact: esdgallery@gmail.com


*Charlie Sheard's work appears courtesy of Tim Olsen Gallery

There is Nothing New Under the Sun

Dr David Baker of East Sydney Doctors

The July 8 issue of Medical Observer featured an article about ESD Gallery, East Sydney Doctors and our previous show, 'There is nothing new under the sun...', curated by Kat Sapera.
They went on to discuss the medical benefits of going artistic in the waiting room.


The article can be viewed here, but you'll have to log on.


'There is nothing new under the sun...' was a group show, bringing together the work of Peter Aland, Lance Cunynghame, Clinton Garofano, Katherine Moline and Steven Vella. The show drew on notions that they may be no such thing as an original – only authentic repetitions and amalgamations of that which already exists. Bringing together the work of five contemporary artists this exhibition demonstrated and celebrated this theme through the incorporation of art formed of found objects, images, surfaces and unexpected materials. Inextricably bound within this theme were ideas of reinvention, regeneration and redefinition of purpose; utilitarian, manufactured or natural objects are imbued with a new sense of value as they metamorphose into a work of art by way of creative processes. We live in an age of recycling, whether it be fashion, music or rubbish - we strive to reuse in order to create. This exhibition aimed to explore the nature of transitions from one form to another, exposing tensions between the polemics of what exists, what has come before, and what is yet to exist.
For more information on the exhibition & featured artists please go here.
If you want to find out more about East Sydney Doctors, take a look at their website.

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Attribution
Photo: Lee Besford, Medical Observer