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James Guppy Exhibition October/ November 2011
The Suitor 2011 acrylic on linen 120 x 60 cm
Showing at Jan Murphy Gallery 25 October - 12 November 2011
486 Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley Brisbane Queensland
View the gallery online
Posted on Monday 24th of October, 2011
New Gallery - "New Works"
A new gallery entitled New Works has been added to the site. You can check it out in the gallery section of the website.
Posted on Wednesday 24th of November, 2010
James Guppy Exhibition 2010
Death and The Maiden, 2010, acrylic on linen (detail) 180 x 120cm
23 November to 19 December 2010
Drinks with the Artist
Saturday 27 November 4-6pm
"From primitive interior places, where human and animal coexist; from those deep dark spaces within... where tales begin, I offer these."
James Guppy 2010
This exhibition co-incides with:
Seduction and Subversion: The art of James Guppy 1989 - 2009
3 December 2010 to 30 January 2011
Manly Regional Gallery & Museum
02 9976 1416
Posted on Wednesday 10th of November, 2010
Other Hands, exhibition of new works by James Guppy
Rhinoceros and the Teapot, 2009, acrylic on linen, 90.0 x 180.0 cm
Studio Wall, September 2009
James Guppy's exhibition of new works Other Hands opens October 13, 2009 at Jan Murphy Gallery 486 Brunswick St Fortitude Valley Brisbane.
Gallery hours: 10am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday or by appointment.
Go to http://www.janmurphygallery.com.au/current.php to see the rest of the works in the exhibition.
Posted on Tuesday 13th of October, 2009
Seduction and Subversion - James Guppy Exhibition
Gynaeceum V 1994 - synthetic polymer paint on linen - Private Collection
SEDUCTION AND SUBVERSION
The art of James Guppy 1989 - 2009
A Tweed River Art Gallery Touring Exhibition
2 October - 15 November 2009
Tweed River Art Gallery
You are warmly invited to attend the official exhibition opening by Writer and Presenter, Andrew Frost.
at Tweed River Art Gallery
on Friday 2 October 2009 at 6:30pm
All are welcome to join us for the free public programs below:
Saturday 3 October at 11:00am DST
Exhibition Floortalk: Andrew Frost interviews James Guppy
Saturday 31 October at 2:00pm DST
Susi Muddiman, Gallery Director in conversation with James Guppy
Exhibition Tour Itinerary:
Tweed River Art Gallery: 2 October – 15 November 2009
Ipswich Art Gallery: 28 November 2009 – 17 January 2010
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery: 5 February – 21 March 2010
Manning Regional Art Gallery: 9 April – 23 May 2010
Wollongong City Gallery: 4 June - 25 July 2010
Orange Regional Art Gallery: 6 August – 19 September 2010
Logan Art Gallery: 13 October – 13 November 2010
Manly Art Gallery & Museum: 3 December 2010 – 30 January 2011
Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery: 11 February – 15 April 2011
Albury Regional Art Gallery: 6 May – 26 June 2011
Posted on Friday 9th of October, 2009
Andrew Frost reviews James Guppy
Andrew Frost reviews James Guppy in September 09 'Art Collector.
Read the full review on our Reviews & Quotes page.
Posted on Wednesday 23rd of September, 2009
Fay Gallery Opening
James Guppy, “Etiquette” (detail), 2008, acrylic on linen, 61 x 150 cm
JAMES GUPPY
Fay
9 September to 4 October, 2008 - Drinks with the Artist Saturday 13 September 4-6pm
These works are about women, aging and power. In the Shorter Oxford Dictionary “Fay” means both fairy and dross. The traditional fairy had always been an invisible power, but over time, has been reduced from a place of cautious respect to quaint irrelevance. This echoes the words I hear from women as they age... of being submerged by invisibility and irrelevance.
The fairy element is also a tribute to my mother who gave me fairies as a child. She maintained she had seen one, so as a loyal son I will not say that I do not believe in fairies. I certainly believed in my mother. She was a testament to a mature woman’s power.
I grew up with the safe Edwardian fairy folk of Arthur Rackham, only later in my teens discovering the Victorian fairy painter Richard Dadd. This is a long way from today’s Post-Tolkien “World of Warcraft” universe of elves and dwarves.
My fairies are not the delicate quaint creatures of my childhood; nor the contemporary flouro-coloured fusion of American and Manga cartooning. They are powerful creatures of the gaps - both generous and vindictive in turns, the spirit of the siren and sphinx embodied in flesh.
James Guppy 2008
B R E N D A M A Y G A L L E R Y
2 D a n k s S t r e e t W a t e r l o o N S W A u s t r a l i a 2 0 1 7
www.brendamaygallery.com.au tues-sat 11-6 f.02 9318 1007
info@brendamaygaller y.com.au t.02 9318 1122
Posted on Wednesday 27th of August, 2008
Fay
The Fairy of Sharp Edges is my first step towards a new body of work which will be exhbited at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney in September 2008. Below are some discordant impulses as I begin.
The Shorter Oxford dictionary says that the word Fay means both fairy and dross. This seemed relevant to me. The traditional fairy had always been an invisible power, but over time, has been reduced from a place of cautious respect to quaint irrelevance.
I grew up with the safe Edwardian fairy folk of Arthur Rackham, only later in my teens discovering the demented Victorian fairy painter Richard Dadd. This is a long way from today's Post-Tolkien, "World of Warcraft" universe of elves and dwarves.
The other impulse is my empathy for the aging of women around me. As a bastard male born to a single mother in 1950s England, I grew up surrounded by strong women. I remember my mother saying she felt herself becoming invisible as she aged. Now I am hearing the same thing from my partner and middle aged female friends. My experience of women's power has been a positive one, so I am distressed by their feelings of disempowerment.
I hope the study shows clearly that my fairies will not be the delicate quaint creatures of my childhood; nor the contemporary flouro-coloured fusion of American and Manga cartooning. I want them to be powerful creatures of the gaps - both generous and vindictive in turns; the spirit of the siren and sphinx embodied in flesh.
James Guppy 2008
The Fairy of Sharp Edges 2007, acrylic on linen, 25.5 x 25.5 cm
Posted on Thursday 13th of December, 2007
Guppy wins Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize
Smoke Signals 2006, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 180 x 180 cm
"A work of ‘ominous beauty"’ wins inaugural
Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize
Judge Anthony Bond of the Art Gallery of NSW commented:
“James Guppy is an artist who has followed a very personal direction, often painting very small but intense paintings with surreal qualities exploring human dramas. The body would often appear under threat from various forms of painful invasion. This new work is on a grand scale compared with much of what we have previously seen and the figure has given way to a sweeping cloudscape. The billowing vapors seem almost toxic suggesting an apocalyptic vision of climate change yet at the same time it is a scene that strongly appeals to a romantic tradition in western painting. The British 18th century painter John Martin comes to mind, in particular a grand landscape from the Tate collection in London.”
Bond went on to say...
“Guppy has offered the Gold Coast a major example of his work... many more famous artists sent minor pieces to this exhibition, which however good, do not show us their work at its best.
While it is great that they entered at all, lets hope that in future they, like Guppy pull out their best. Having said that, I genuinely believe that this is the best selection of works I have seen in any prize exhibition anywhere.”
The work is a large painting of clouds and Guppy writes...
“For the last few years I have been exploring the unease shadowing our lives.
The news on our screens and the special effects in our movies are filled with clouds. Clouds erupt from disaster after disaster: smoke clouds from burning buildings or raging bushfires, clouds of dust and debris from volcanoes and exploding munitions, clouds of water from cyclones and tornadoes.
"Hidden behind, beneath or within these clouds is an approaching menace. We don’t see the torn bodies and dismembered lives; just the ominous beauty of these billowing veils shrouding Armageddon.
"Over the years I have often painted people floating; not with the weightless ecstasy of a Chagall lover but rather a rootless inability to remain connected to the earth. With these works I wanted the audience floating so the paintings needed to be large, to fill the viewer's vision, to create the sensation of being up there in the clouds, immersed in the seductive chaos and disruption.”
James Guppy is represented by Brenda May Gallery Sydney and Jan Murphy Gallery Brisbane. His work is represented in a number of public and private collections including the Queensland Art Gallery, Artbank, Griffith University and the regional Galleries of Lismore, Stanthorpe, Warrick and Tweed River.
This is the inaugural Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, however the Prize itself began in 1968. It has been known as the Conrad Jupiters Art Prize since 1990 and retired surgeon Stan Duke has taken on the sponsorship of the prize through his foundation.
Guppy has not only received the $10,000 first prize but his work has also been separately acquired for the Gold Coast City Gallery Collection.
The exhibition opened on Saturday 1 December and will run till 10 Feb 2008.
Reprinted courtesy of Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Click here to view the online gallery.
Posted on Thursday 6th of December, 2007
New Flower Paintings
A new series of Flower paintings has just been completed. They are available for viewing:
In Sydney, please contact Brenda May Gallery 2 Danks St Waterloo
P: 02 9318 1122 E: info@brendamaygallery.com.au W: www.brendamaygallery.com.au
In Brisbane, please contact Jan Murphy Gallery 486 Brunswick St Fortitude Valley
P: 07 3254 1855 E: jan@janmurphygallery.com.au W: www.janmurphygallery.com.au
If you would like to be put on the mailing list to receive an invitation to James' next exhibition, please contact us with your details at james
jamesguppy.com .
Posted on Thursday 6th of December, 2007
