First Birthday Celebration – Group Show in Melbourne

From 6pm Friday 20th Oct 2017, we are having a pop-up group show of 20 of the artists who have been in residence at Q Bank Gallery in Queenstown over the last year. Yes, it’s our first birthday. We’re having it at 178 Johnston St, Collingwood. If you can’t make it, here are the artworks that feature. For sales enquiries, email qbankgallery@gmail.com.

1. “Orange Roughy” by Damian Cazaly. 61cm x 91cm. Acrylic and Aerosol on Canvas. $790. In the 1970’s, fishermen from Australia and to a lesser extent, New Zealand discovered shoals of a little-known fish living at a depth of about 800 metres on their continental shelves. They were known as Orange Roughy, they were delicious and they existed in huge numbers. In no time at all, fishing fleets were hauling in 40,000 tonnes of roughy a year. Then Marine Biologists made some alarming discoveries. Roughy are extremely long-lived and slow maturing. Some may be 150 years old; any roughy you have eaten may well have been born when Victoria was Queen. Roughy have adapted this exceedingly unhurried lifestyle because the waters they live in are so resource poor. In such waters, some fish spawn just once in a lifetime. Unfortunately, by the time this was realized the stocks had been severely depleted. -Bill Bryson ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’

2. “Web Slinger” by Be Free. 85.5cm x 57.5cm. Mixed media. $1,600. Sold.

3. “‘Queenstown study No. 2’ 2017” by Dominic Kavanagh. 60cm x 60cm. Discarded timber, metal objects, and hose. $650.

4. “Self-Portrait” by Maddie Sharrock.L418mm x W70mm x H480mm. Cement. $980.

5. “The Miner” by Jason Parker. 40cm x 40cm. Oil on board. NFS.

6. “Well” by Brian Cheung. 575mm x 385mm. Ink on Paper. $450. Sold.

7. “‘As we build it collapses’ 2017” by Dominic Kavanagh. 75cm x 65cm x 20cm. Discarded timber, metal objects, concrete, epoxy resin, and mirrored acrylic. $800.

8. “Southern Ghosts” by Creature Creature. 47cm x 18cm. Pen, acrylic, aerosol on Tasmanian Huon Pine. $400. This is a new piece on an offcut of Huon pine, gifted to us on our last night from local legend Rory. Queenstown felt like it was full of ghost stories and forgotten folklore.

9. “Untitled” by Nick Millen. Sold.

10. “last light” by Felix Atkinson. 91cm x 121cm. Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas. $2,450.

11. “First impressions movie theatre” by Brian McNamara. 15cm x 9cm x 19cm. Wood, Electronics, LCD display, wire. $600. This immersive audio/video installation takes the user into an x-ray filtered surreal slow-motion descent into Queenstown, Tas. A soundtrack of 5 experimental noise music tracks has been set to this piece.

12. “Triple self-portrait” by Chase Archer. 40cm x 60.5cm.mOil on board. $700.

13. “Queenstown in Colour” by Neil Tomkins . A3. Ink and watercolour. $150.

14. “Philosopher’s Ridge” by Knock. 29cm x 21cm. Watercolour, spray paint and ink. $160. Sold.

15. “The Search (Cockatoo Australis)” by Knock. 122cm x 61cm. Spray paint and ink. $650.

16. “In Franklin Street, 2017” by Shawn Lu. 42.5cm x 28cm (unframed). Ink on Fabriano paper. $900 (framed). Sold.

17. “Mum’s Spoon” by Maddie Sharrock. L406mm x W77mm x H406mm. Cement. $480.

18. “Into the Vortex” by Mupz. 59cm x 84cm. Ink on paper. $1,250. Sold.

19. “The Seeker” by Baby Guerrilla. 60cm x 150cm. Mixed media. $1,950.

20. “Frontier” by Jason Parker. 40cm x 40cm. Oil and spray paint on board. $600.

21. “Meagre” by Brian Cheung. 326mm x 294mm. Ink on Paper. $260.

22. “Peep show” by Chase Archer. 20.5cm x 40cm. Oil on board. $480. Sold.

23. “The Legend of Brock” by James Wilson. 82cm x 51cm. Oil, charcoal and spray paint. $320.

24. “Tutelary Spirit” by Suki. 43.5cm x 33.5cm. Pen on paper. $400.

25. “Mount Jukes Lookout” by Neil Tomkins. 40cm x 40cm. Acrylic on Canvas. $660. This work was an experiment at first. I’ve never painted snow so these are my first snow paintings and are rather different to a lot of my work. I really enjoyed painting this snowman that I saw on the side of Mount Jukes Road lookout on a very snowy morning driving to some places unreachable without 4×4.

26. “Mount Jukes Road in Winter” by Neil Tomkins. 40cm x 40cm. Acrylic on Canvas. $660. This is from the same drive as the snowman work on was a really beautiful stretch of road that I wanted to reference. This work and the snowman piece could easily be a diptych. The main aim of this work was to put it together in layers with specific reference to the layers that build during the snowy season. Maybe this is reflected in the complexity of Queenstown’s inhabitants as well.

27. “The Politics of Distraction” by Baby Guerrilla. 118cm x 84cm. Ink on Paper. $3,500. “If Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are gradually chipping away at our ability to control our own minds, could there come a point…at which democracy no longer functions?…Will we be able to recognize it, when and if it happens? And if we can’t how do we know it hasn’t happened already?”-The Guardian Newspaper October 2017. Author Paul Lewis.

28. “Max Triffett” by Regan Tamanui. 30cm x 25cm. Spray paint on board. $250. Sold.

29. Fred Whatley. Regan Tamanui . 30cm x 25cm. Spray paint on board. $250. Sold.

30. “Door” by Creature Creature. 65cm x 70cm. Pen and acrylic on cotton. $350. This piece was created during our residency in February for our show at Qbank Gallery titled X. The body of work produced had a raw and gothic tone inspired by the wilderness of Queenstown.