Collector's Choice Exhibition

Investment Paintings

29th May - 15th July

Margaret Olley

Chianti Bottle & Pomegranates, 1994-95, Oil on Board, 50 x 60cm

This 26th annual Collector's Choice Exhibition is a testament to the great wealth of talent and variety of work from late 20th Century Australian artists. Exhibiting together are investment works by: the traditionalists; the moderns; the abstracts; emerging artists with future promise; the contemporaries and the indigenous artists of Central and Western Australia, all of whom have contributed to the expression of imagination and a deeper understanding of life and the world around us. Collecting works of art is an exciting, satisfying and financially rewarding exercise in both the short and long term. Artists exhibited in this prestigous show include:
Margaret Olley * Tim Storrier * Gloria Petyarre * John Coburn * Ray Crooke * Arthur Boyd * David Boyd * Frank Hodgkinson * Hart * Donald Friend * Mike Worrall * Melissa Egan * Andrew Sibley * Charles Blackman * John Rigby * Geoff Dyer * Margaret Woodward * Robert Juniper * David Aspen * Ernesto Arrisueno * Sidney Nolan * John Perceval * Celia Perceval * Judy Cassab * Robert Dickerson * Susan Sheridan * Neil Taylor * Patrick Carroll * Brett Whiteley and sculptures by Stephen Glassborow and English sculptor David Begbie

Judy Cassab

Pink Dressing Gown, Oil on Canvas, 77 x 96cm

David Boyd

Children by a Winter Stream, 2004, Oil on Board, 38 x 46cm

The River Bank of Gold, 1996, Oil on Board, 91.5 x 91.5cm

Europas daughter diving from the tree of fire into a blue rose bush with animals in flight, 2003 Oil on Canvas, 84 x 91cm

Children playing under the tea tree by the seaside, Oil on Board, 30 x 38cm

Swinging from the Golden Bough, 2003, Oil on Board, 30 x 38cm

Watching the cockatoos by the river bank, 2004, Oil on Board, 38 x 45cm

Children's picnic with wombat and blue roses, 2003, Oil on Board, 30 x 39cm

Children playing amonst the gum trees, 2004, Oil on Board, 38 x 45cm

Untitled, Sfumato on Plaster Board, 286 x 88.5cm

Ray Crooke

Two Islanders by the Lagoon, Oil on Canvas, 50 x 60cm

By the Lagoon, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 50cm

Islander with flower lae, Oil on Canvas, 60 x 50cm

Thursday Island Series no.1 - 2004, Oil on Canvas Board, 30 x 40cm

Thursday Island Series no.2 - 2004, Oil on Canvas Board, 30 x 40cm

Thursday Island Series no.3 - 2004, Oil on Canvas Board, 30 x 40cm

Thursday Island Series no.4 - 2004, Oil on Canvas Board, 30 x 40cm

Thursday Island Series no.5 - 2004, Oil on Canvas Board, 30 x 40cm

Thursday Island Series no.6 - 2004, Oil on Canvas Board, 30 x 40cm

Thursday Island Series no.7 - 2004, Oil on Canvas Board, 30 x 40cm

Frank Hodgkinson

Art Gallery Road, Oil on Canvas, 183 x 102cm

Charles Blackman

The Rokeby Venus, Watercolour on Paper, 38 x 53.5cm

Gladiolus, Oil on Canvas, 133 x 150cm

Geoff Dyer

D'Entrecasteau Creek, Oil on Canvas, 128 x 155cm

Lune River III, Oil on Canvas, 91 x 91cm

Mike Worrall

Seduction in the Garden, Oil on Canvas, 122 x 183cm

Jerry Mich

Jerry Mich, Oil on Canvas, 151 x 151cm

Shine - 2000, Oil on Linen, 41 x 51cm

Robert Juniper

High Tide, Price's Point, 2002, Oil and Acrylic on Belgian Linen, 92 x 91cm

Tim Storrier

Boundary 1988, Oil on Canvas, 136 x 200cm

Gloria Petyarre

Bush Medicine Leaves, 2003, Acrylic on Canvas, 85 x 125cm

Bush Medicine, 2003, Acrylic on Canvas, 85 x 120cm

Margaret Woodward

Siesta, Pastel on paper laminated onto canvas, 150 x 150cm

The Elaborate Cadenza, Pastel on paper laminated onto canvas, 150 x 150cm

Francis Bacon

Portrait of Michel Leiris, Etching & aquatint on arches paper, 29.5 x 25.4cm

Donald Friend

Kebele Kurali Dau, 1948, Oil on Board, 40.5 x 30.5cm

John Coburn

Study for the Killing, 1988, Acrylic, pastel & watercolour on paper, 24 x 33cm

Study for the Temptation I - 1988, Acrylic, pastel & watercolour on paper, 28 x 24cm

Judith White

Border Ranges

Cultivation and Road

David Begbie

He, Sculpture in Steel Mesh, 52 x 16 x 12.5cm

She, Sculpture in Steel Mesh, 51 x 15 x 12.5cm

Swell - 2004, Sculpture in Steel Mesh, 51.5 x 23 x 13cm

Arthur Boyd

Shoalhaven Landscape with Clouds - 1990, Oil on Board, 30 x 20cm

Melissa Egan

Singing Practice - 2004, Oil on Linen, 150 x 120cm

Sunday Morning Treat - 2004, Acrylic on Linen, 120 x 150cm

Stephen Glassborow

Flight to Jupiter, Bronze 7/25

Moondancer - 2003, Bronze 17/25

James Gleeson

Escaping from the Minotaur in the Labyrinth on Knossos, Oil on Board, 14.5 x 11cm

John Rigby

Noosa National Park, Oil on Canvas, 112 x 122cm

Bicheno Tasmania, Oil on Card, 55.5 x 71cm

Andrew Sibley

Some Enchanted Evening - 2002, Oil on Linen, 167 x 152cm