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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The John Buckley Collection of Modern & Contemporary Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  13 May 2014 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  66
• Lot Description:
  Bronwyn Oliver
  (1959-2006)
  Hook 1991
  bronze and copper wire
  59 x 46 x 2.5 cm
• Provenance:
  Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  Bronwyn Oliver: Recent Sculptures, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 1991
• Notes:
  Bronwyn Oliver produced an intricate and organic body of work. Her sculptures are paradoxically ethereal, yet structurally solid forms. The artist revealed, "My work is about structure and order. It is a pursuit of a kind of logic: a formal, sculptural logic and poetic logic. It is a conceptual and physical process of building and taking away at the same time. I set out to strip the ideas and associations down to (physically and metaphorically) just the bones, exposing the life still held inside."1 The schema in Oliver's work has been described as "a consistent vocabulary of elemental forms - the spiral, meander, loop and sphere - in a repertoire of signature archetypes."2 Hook is quintessential Oliver. Her work was included in numerous leading contemporary art exhibitions, such as A New Generation 1983-1988: the Philip Morris Arts Grant at the National Gallery of Australia in 1988; the Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne, 1990; Australian Perspecta, Sydney, 1991; the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, 1993; and Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia, Japan and Korea, 1996. One of Oliver's many awards was the Moet & Chandon Fellowship in 1994, which was the first occasion on which sculpture was included in the award. Oliver's majestic art works lent themselves to public and private art commissions - including at the Sydney Hilton Hotel, Sydney Botanical Gardens and the Queen Street Mall in Brisbane. Her work is in major public collections in Australia, and in Auckland, New Zealand. She held innumerable solo exhibitions and was represented throughout her career by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney. Dr Shireen Huda 1 Hannah Fink, "Strange things: on Bronwyn Oliver", in Ivor Indyk (ed.), Burnt ground, Issue 4 of HEAT (New Series), Artarmon, 2002, p.180 2 ibid, pp.178-79
• Estimate:
  A$18,000 - 25,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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