AND THEN THERE’S THIS
8 - 30 March 2023
Isriel Adams, Rosie Deacon, Will Hilzinger, Jackson McLaren and William O’Toole.
Isriel Adams
Isriel Adams is a painter living and working on Dharawal Land.
Isriel holds a Diploma of Fine Art from West Wollongong Tafe and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Sydney College of Art. He is a twice finalist in the Sulman Prize and has artworks held in private collections.
Isriel Adams, Subliminal Advancement, 2024, 217 x 145 cm, Acrylic on canvas.
AUD 3900
William Hilzinger is an artist currently living and working on Dharawal land.
After completing a BFA at the university of Wollongong in 2015, Hilzinger has established a diverse art making practice. Taking inspiration from nature and the world around him, he is always looking for a new approach and way of using or viewing materiels. From woolen blankets, cigarette packets, building materials and upcycled aluminum cans. His passion for process and hands-on practice lets him explore and share relationships with the materials reflecting experiences of time, space, light.
Will Hilzinger
Will Hilzinger, Indian Garden, 2024, 29 x 21.5 cm, Acrylic, paper, glue, aluminum cans and dressmaker pins on board.
AUD 290
Will Hilzinger, Silver Lining, 2024, 122.5 x 91.5 cm, Acrylic, paper, aluminum cans, and glue on Masonite.
AUD 1350
Will Hilzinger, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, 2024, 79.5 x 60 cm, Acrylic, paper, aluminum cans and dress maker pins on xps foam.
AUD 650
William O'Toole is a contemporary painter living and working on Dharawal land.
Working primarily in oils on non-traditional materials, O’Toole appropriates images from film stills, commercial listings and digital archives, cropping and removing them from their original contexts before their reproduction on densely textured surfaces. Using supports such as doormats and synthetic turf to mimic the grain of analog film or the pixelation of poorly scanned images, these bootlegs of the original images aim to analyse the fetishisation of resolution, speed and degradation within contemporary image circulation.
William O’Toole holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts from Wollongong University, 2022.
William O’Toole
Will O’Toole, Halo, 2024, 60 x 40 cm, Oil and spray paint on coir door mat.
AUD 490
Will O’Toole, Slacker, 2024, 60 x 40 cm, Oil and spray paint on coir door mat.
AUD 490
Jackson McLaren
Working in-between painting and textiles, Jackson McLaren’s practice explores the possibilities of abstraction. McLaren’s work is informed by his background as a musician in dialogue with the visual languages of twentieth century modernism. Horizontal bands of colour, squares and the monochrome are recurring motifs that play out on a hessian substrate. Using repetitive weaving processes, mirrored with painted surfaces, McLaren’s materially guided practice finds rhythm that is both contemplative and analogous to song.
McLaren completed his Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2021, where he was the recipient of the Maude Glover-Fleay Scholarship and the Majlis Art Award. He is currently undertaking his Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Jackson McLaren, Surf Dragon (Beach), 2023, 23 x 31 cm, Handwoven wool tapestry, foam on hessian.
AUD 700
Jackson McLaren, Surf Dragon (Night), 2024, 23 x 31 cm, Handwoven wool tapestry, flashe on foam over canvas.
AUD 700
Rosie Deacon
Rosie Deacon (B. 1985) is a Wollongong-based artist working in sculpture and installation. She engages with the spectacle of obsession and realms of the absurd. in 2010 Deacon graduated from UNSW COFA with first class honours and was the recipient of both the Gallery Barry Keldoulis Grant for Emerging Artists and the Dinosaur Designs Price. She has held solo exhibitions at Varbergs Konsthall (Sweden), Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, The Egg & Dart, The Cube Mosman Art Gallery, Firstdraft, Gaffa Gallery, 107 Projects and been included in group shows across Sydney, Newcastle, Bathurst, Brisbane, Townsville, Launceston and Sheffield, UK. Deacon’s work is held in collections including Artbank, Campbelltown Arts Centre and Wollongong City Art Gallery.
Deacon uses easily accessible materials and what may be described as ‘everyday junk’ to create pieces that blur the lines between contemporary art, craft and jewellery practice. Deacon repurposes everyday materials such as synthetic eyelashes together with things like acrylic paint, expanding foam, jewels, glittery stickers and clay. The mash up of a diversity of materials affects the meaning of the work and how an audience may interpret the idea of artists’ process
Rosie Deacon, Parrot Manets, 2023, bouncing putty.
Dimensions variable
AUD 45 (each)
Rosie Deacon, Parrot Earrings? So Gorge!, 2022, aluminium sheet, steel mesh, steel rod, cloth, gyprock, acrylic paint, bouncing putty.
Dimensions variable
AUD 8,200 (pair)