Kate Briscoe Geologica - Rockfaces
5 Nov - 22 Nov 2021
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Kate Briscoe Geologica-Rockfaces
Capturing the Australian landscape is as difficult as harvesting raindrops. Many artists have attempted to tap that endless reservoir and, no matter how many images are forthcoming, the depths never seem to be completely plummeted. But every so often there are some crystalline images that cling to the surface of our own immediate, intimate catalogue of visual images as reminders of journeys or meditations on paths well-travelled. Over forty years of observing the Australian landscape, Kate Briscoe has traversed a physical and emotional landscape that forages below the gritty surfaces of Arnhem Land and The Kimberley. In doing so, not only has she explored the earthy surface of those stunning vistas but has also mined the alchemy that takes place when water and wind penetrate those extraordinary geological formations. The works in this exhibition embody the essential elements of earth, water and fire that have been the key elements that have shaped the landscapes of Australia. These are the landscapes that are subject to constant change and this artist has gained inspiration from many visits to the same places, the bodies of work from each journey develop and build into series. Geological shifts as profound as the history of the earth become the accompanists in that concert of compositions that transport vast exteriors to the interior of the studio. Elements as dry as the landscape, crevices as deep as the historical incisors from a time when earth movements shaped the contours of the land, form the basis for a series of rock faces. Those Rockfaces, as Kate Briscoe started naming them in 2006, create staggering pictorial statements that have the ability to capture those sensational geological shifts. These same statements also document an emotional path that took the artist to a deeper creative place. Was the Rockface more than a creative edifice? Were these pictorial platforms a range that needed to be scanned and scaled in order to ascend to the next craggy pinnacles? Landscape and realism stroll together with ease but the terrain stiffens with abstraction. It is that space where Kate Briscoe’s work reaches deep into an emotional experience, a place that is provided by the artist for the viewer to contemplate. It is this exploration that becomes the inspiration for so many of these carefully selected works that create a viewing platform for the artist and anyone who cares to walk with her through those liminal and transitional panoramas. - Nick Vickers
Limestone Rockface Strata #6 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 101 x 101 cm $7,700.00
Rockfall #1 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 101 x 101 cm $7,700
Rockfall #13 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 76 x 76 cm $5,500
Rockfall #3 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 101 x 101 cm $7,700
Limestone Rockface Split #16 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 76 x 76cm $5,500
Limestone Rockface Split #17 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 76 x 76 cm $5,500
Limestone Rockface Geikie Gorge #3 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 101 x 101 cm $7,700
Rockface Reef - Kimberley Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 101 x 202cm $15,500
Limestone Rockface Geikie Gorge #4 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 101 x 101 cm $7,700
Limestone Rockface Split #11 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 101 x 101 cm $7,700
Rockface Split – Kimberley #12 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 152 x 168cm $15,500.00
Limestone Rockface Split # 20 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 101 x 101 cm $7,700
Rockfall # 16 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 101 x 101 cm $5,500
Rock Fall #15 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 101 x 101 cm $5,500
Rockfall #14 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 101 x 101 cm $5,500
Limestone Rockface Strata #4 Sand, Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas 121 x 136 cm $9900
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‘Geologica-Rockfaces’ & Gallery Australia, Sorrento, VIC ‘Geologica’ Venetian Media Group, South Yarra. VIC ‘Harvesting Raindrops’ Art Atrium, Sydney NSW ‘Atelier’ Art Atrium Sydney. NSW ‘Geologica IV’ Art Atrium Gallery, Sydney. ‘Rockfalls’ SPOT81 gallery Sydney.NSW KIAF Seoul Korea Gallery BHAK Seoul S Korea ‘New Works’ Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide SA ‘Geologica IV’ Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney NSW ‘Geologica lll’ Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney.NSW. ‘Limestones’ Beaver Galleries, Canberra. ACT. ‘Geologica ll’ Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne. VIC. ‘Geologica’ Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney. NSW. Rockfaces’ Catherine Asquith Gallery. Melbourne. VIC. Rockfaces’ Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney. NSW. Beaver Galleries, Canberra. ACT. ‘Rockfaces’ Harrison Galleries, Sydney. NSW. BMGART, Adelaide. SA. ‘Rockfaces’ Harrison Galleries, Sydney. NSW. Earth Lines’Beaver Galleries, Canberra. ACT. BMGART, Adelaide. SA. ‘Earth Lines’ Axia Modern Art, Melbourne. VIC Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney, NSW. ‘Earth Lines. Depot Gallery, Sydney, NSW. ‘Earth Lines’ Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT. ‘Earth Lines’ UTS Gallery, Sydney, NSW. ‘Earth Lines’ Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW. Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC. Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT. Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC. Olsen Carr Gallery, Sydney, NSW. Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT. Access Gallery, Sydney, NSW. Gilchrist Gallery, Brisbane, QLD. 1994 Access Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1993 Foyer Gallery, University of Western Sydney, NSW. 1992 Access Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1991 The Works Gallery, University of New South Wales. 1988 Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Sydney, NSW. + Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery, Melbourne, VIC. 1985 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1984 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1981 Bloomfield Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1979 Art of Man Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1978 Art of Man Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1978 Bartoni Gallery, Melbourne, VIC. 1976 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1975 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1973 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1971 Bonython Gallery, Sydney, NSW. 1968 Harnham Gallery, Salisbury, UK.
The KAAF Art Prize, Korean Art Foundation, Sydney The Paddington Art Prize, Sydney NSW The Calleen Art Prize, Cowra Regional Art Gallery NSW. The Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook. NSW ‘Summer Sojourn’ Art Atrium Sydney. NSW The Georges river art Prize, Sydney. The Paddington Art Prize, Sydney NSW The Sydney Contemporary Art Fair. The Calleen Art Prize, Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW The Tattersalls Landscape Prize, Brisbane QLD Art Central Art Fair, Hong Kong. AWI exhibition, Juniper Hall Paddington NSW The Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook. NSW. The KAAF Art Prize, Korean Art foundation, Sydney. Sydney Contemporary Art Fair. The Calleen Art Prize, Cowra regional Gallery.NSW. The Calleen Art Prize, Cowra Regional Gallery. NSW. ‘Abstract’ SPOT81 Gallery Sydney. NSW The Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook. NSW. ‘Place’ Spot81, Chippendale, Sydney.NSW. ‘Surface’ Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney. NSW. ‘Salon 2’ Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond. VIC. The Plein Air Prize, NSW Parliament House, Sydney. NSW. The Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery. NSW. The Fleurieu Art Prize, SA. The Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook NSW. ‘From Paper’ Beijing Art Space, Beijing, CHINA. ‘Surface’ Catherine Asquith Gallery @ Danks St, Sydney. The Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery. NSW. The Plein Air Prize, NSW Parliament House, Sydney. ‘Echoes of the Land’, Aptos Cruz Galleries. SA ‘The Abstract Canvas’, Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney. NSW. KIAF Seoul S Korea Catherine Asquith Gallery The Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery. The BLAKE Prize. Duke Gold Coast Art Prize The Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery. The Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania. The Duke Gold Coast Art Prize. The BLAKE Prize, NAS Gallery, Sydney. Abstraction’ Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney. The Duke Gold Coast Art Prize. Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW. The Fleurieu Art Prize SA
2006 – 1968 Numerous art prizes and group exhibitions including The WYNNE PRIZE 1997,1998 & 1999. Salon Des Refuses 1995, The BLAKE Prize 1995 ,1994, 1991,1988 &1987 COLLECTIONS:Maitland Regional Gallery [winner Maitland Prize] Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Newcastle Regional Gallery, NSW Government House, Gold Coast City Council, Artbank, Parliament House Canberra, UTS Sydney, Uni Western Sydney, UNSW, NRMA, ANA Hotel, UTS Union, Chartwell Trust, NZ, KPMG, Austar Entertainment, Deutsche Asset, New England Regional Gallery, Credit Suisse Melbourne, SMS Management, Credit Agricole Indosuez Au, Hicksons Lawyers, Colin Biggers and Paisley, D B Reef, Sydney, The Kedumba Collection, Michael Page International, Rabobank Sydney, Barclays Capitol Sydney, Spencer & Stuart Sydney, The Melbournian, Sejong General Hospital Seoul S Korea, Madew Wines NSW, General Motors New York, Leeuwin Estate Wines, Regus International, Transport and Regional Services ACT, Wentworth Chambers Sydney, The Westin Hotel Perth.