September to December 2022
“As a Director of Blenheim Gallery, I find the diversity of each artists’ work is the fascinating thing from exhibition to exhibition. All artists that we represent have their own unique style and view of the world. One which resonates with me as a promoter of their work there has to be a relationship of understanding and therefore when presenting the work one feels the conversations in each exhibition are in harmony with the philosophy of Blenheim Gallery” - says Jennie Chapman
September Exhibition
Anita Denholm and Gene McLaren
Anita Denholm “On Consideration of the Oceans"
Anita Denholm “The Climber”
Figure- Reclaimed Figure- Reclaimed copper wire, Vermin mesh, Galvanised tie wire, fencing wire. $3000
Anita Denholm
Anita is a self-taught artist who works across different mediums. Sculptures are created using stone, wire, found objects, and repurposing discarded plastic rubbish. Paintings are mostly created using acrylics on board.
Anita’s brilliant exhibition with Gene McLaren at Blenheim Gallery with large and smaller works highlighted her delight and her creative output as a creative practice. Art is very important to her for stress relief from the pressure of working as a nurse during the Covid pandemic.
Anita has been commissioned to create large sandstone sculptures for the St Helens ‘Destination Action Plan Group’ to make a large stone sculpture for their sculpture trail around Georges Bay- due to be unveiled in June 2023 as part of the Bay of Fires Festival.
Anita is proud to announce that she was a finalist in the prestigious 2022 National Capital Art Prize in the Sustainability section. Titled “On Consideration of the Oceans".
Anita’s concerns are counterbalanced with environmental concerns and the ramifications of mans’ presence in our natural environment.
Gene McLaren “The Horizon is Defeated”
Corten and stainless steel
Gene McLaren “All at Once”
Corten steel with stainless steel
Gene McLaren “Sprint”
Stainless and Corten steel
Gene McLaren
A master of scale with sculptures that can sit either as a smaller maquette in an interior or enclosed space moving to the larger majestic sculptures for landscape gardens.
Many works from his exhibition with Anita Denholm sold to private clients. However, “The Horizon is Defeated” has a new home on the East Coast of Tasmania at Freycinet Resort.
Carlton Cox “Glasgow Engineering”
Linocut 2022 $650 framed $470 unframed
Carlton Cox “Midland Sky”
Linocut 2022 $460 framed $360
Carlton Cox
Carlton Cox’s ‘Carving a Path’ exhibition the artist’s journey during the Covid years.
Carlton's new work encompasses a wide range of subjects that resonate in some way with the artist, including his local environment, travels, and more recently exploring industrial and domestic themes.
'Glasgow Engineering' is a bold interior of a well-known Launceston firm, while 'Ernest and Ernesto's 1952 Gaggia Internazionale' captures a barista's perspective.
‘My inspiration is difficult to explain. An unexpected combination of shapes and colours will jump out as a potential linocut, and I then get to work trying to determine how it could be translated into a linocut’, says Carlton.
Linocut is Carlton’s preferred creative method, although he also uses some more experimental techniques using a light-sensitive photopolymer plate.
Carlton has developed techniques and a style that produce multi-colour linocuts, using multiple hand-carved printing blocks, and a reduction technique where part of the block is carved away after each colour is printed.
Carlton plans all the steps in advance and then works backwards to overlay the various colours until the final image is achieved. Several hand-carved printing blocks are created as negatives (mirror images). Each block is hand-inked and hand-pressed repeatedly for each colour until multiple layers have all been pressed onto the paper. Each print has seven or eight colours, with the entire process of creating a linocut taking up to one month.
Rosa McManamey “My teapot signs softly in the mornings”
Gaynor Peaty “The Little Red Teaset”
Linocut
Jacqueline Senior “Bath time”
A Conversation of Cups
Gaynor Peaty, Julie Irvin, Fran Davidson, Jackie Senior, Justine Vaughan, Rosa Mcmanamey and Liz Royce.
The humble tea cup and the evolution of the cup. Developing from when the man drank from cupped hands to using a vessel.
A fun show to end the 2022 year with a light-hearted view by six artists as a collective group to the theme of the exhibition.
Each artist participating in the exhibition originated from another place. Through their love of printmaking and shared knowledge, they came together to develop works from a technical base achieving vibrant and progressive art as a collective of individual lively artworks.
The prints are referenced to layers of observation and in most cases a depiction of the shifting perspective of moving through the image so the eye is drawn to points of focus close by, and others in the distance.
Director’s Note
In closing, if there are any works that interest you, the artists may be searched on our artist page by name.
Alternatively, to view, please see the gallery opening times.