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23/10/2001

Saint and Ryan

Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney

Paul Saint
Rat a tat tat

The title of Paul Saints latest show at Gitte Weise Gallery might well suggest a song title, a rhyme, a drum roll, or a barrage of one liners delivered fast and furious by a stand up comic?
Rat a tat tat is a series of small scale paintings which conflate popular images of emblems, flags and symbols with idiosyncratic overload. When an artist of Saint's calibre sets his sights on illustrating a point the results are outstanding.
Saint's placement of images against and on top of one another is as anonymous and ambiguous as a good joke. Moon Boy (after Sidney Nolan) substitutes woven cloth for Nolans image of a head.
Rat a tat tat also includes Music for Pleasure, a series of five prints, a rumination of familiar imagery and culture of the Twentieth Century. Music for Pleasure can only hope to defuse the dialectic of the late night dinner table repartee.
Saint makes us take notice of the familiar by questioning its validity in paint, fabric and print. He portrays the perfect misquote, and relishes the fact that these modestly scaled works are anecdotes to pure painterly pleasure.
Welcome to an ever-changing world order.

Opening Wednesday 24 October 6 - 8 pm

Exhibition 24 October - 17 November 2001
Tuesday - Saturday 11 - 6pm, or by appointment.

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Lola Ryan
maps and bridges

ROOM 35 / Gitte Weise Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of works by the well respected Aboriginal Elder Lola Ryan. Lola is 76 years old, from La Perouse and a practising artist for some 60 years.
She has consistently sculpted iconic symbols of Sydney - the Harbour Bridge, native wildlife and for the forthcoming exhibition created pre-1788 Australian maps - by way of delicate patterning of shells, lush fabrics and flashes of glitter.
Beyond the simple souvenir, the works are a vibrant mix of traditional materials and contemporary totems, which proudly declare her indigenous heritage and connection to the Sydney area. The idiom is undoubtedly 'Australiana'; the result is delightful.
Lola's family and home have always been important creative partners: she learned her skills from her mother 'Ma' Page, her sisters Elvie and Mavis were her collaborators in the early days and her father made the templates for those signature pieces, such as the Harbour Bridge. She collects her shells on Sydney beaches and more recently on the South Coast.
From her original outlets of Paddy's Markets and the Royal Easter Show, Lola's work is now included in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum. Encouraged by Powerhouse Curator Ann Stephen, she has given public demonstrations of shell work. Lola has donated a large body of work to La Perouse Public School and to the Museum of La Perouse. In 2000 she was named Randwick Council Citizen of the Year.

Since its inception in 1997 ROOM 35 has provided an accessible and challenging environment to support and extend the contemporary arts community, without commercial constraints.
For Lola Ryan, exhibiting in ROOM 35 is a shift away from the tourist traps to enlarge and encourage a more considered appreciation of the extensive body of her intricate shell work.

Opening Wednesday 24 October 6 - 8 pm

To be opened by Dr. Joan Kerr, art historian at 6.30pm
Exhibition 24 October - 17 November 2001
Tuesday - Saturday 11 - 6pm, or by appointment.


For further information please contact Gitte Weise Gallery tel/fax +61 2 9360 2659

Gitte Weise Gallery
56 Sutherland Street Paddington 2021

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