: Jean Appleton :

Artarmon Galleries warmly welcomes you to an exhibition

‘From the Studio’ of JEAN APPLETON
3 – 17 September 2005

The exhibition will be officially opened on
Saturday 3rd September at 4.30 pm by

Christine France
Co Author: ‘Jean Appleton – a Lifetime with Art’

Preview of Exhibition: Saturday 3rd September 2005 from 11am
Exhibition until 17th September 2005
Monday to Friday 10 am to 5 pm, Saturday 11 am to 3 pm

All works for sale in the Exhibition may be purchased on receipt of this invitation

IIIII ARTARMON GALLERIES 479 PACIFIC HWY ARTARMON NSW
Ph. (02)9427 0322 Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturday 11am to 3pm
Parking : see map on www.artarmongalleries.com.au

JEAN APPLETON (1911-2003)

1911 Born in Sydney
1932 - 1935 Studied at East Sydney Technical College Sydney
1936 - 1939 Studied under Bernard Meninsky, Mark Gertler and Elmslie Owen at the Westminster School of Art, London, graduating in 1939; several study tours to Europe during this time
1940 - 1946 Art Teacher with Department of Education in NSW and ACT
1945 - 1956 Schools Lecturer Art Gallery of New South Wales
1947 - 1968 Taught at Julian Ashton Art School Sydney under H C Gibbons; also at East Sydney Technical School, the National Art School and the Workshop Arts Centre Willoughby

AWARDS 1928 East Sydney Tech College Scholarship
1958 Rockdale Art Prize
1960 D’Arcy Morris Memorial Prize
1961 Bathurst Prize
1965 Inaugural Portia Geach Prize Winner
1977 Manly Art Prize
1977 Orange Festival Art Prize

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AT ARTARMON GALLERIES: 1964, 1965,

JOINT EXHIBITIONS
include Jean Appleton and Tom Green, Macquarie Galleries Sydney (1973)
Jean Appleton and Tom Green, Macquarie Galleries Sydney (1973)
Jean Appleton and Tom Green, Artarmon Galleries Sydney (1974)
Travelling Art Exhibition to New Zealand & Malaysia of Australian Artists
Jean Appleton, Lesya Bablyak and Ursula Laverty, Artarmon Galleries (2000)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS Participated in 13 solo exhibitions mostly at Macquarie Galleries, Greenhill Galleries Adelaide, The Painters Gallery Darlinghurst and Jim Alexander Gallery Melbourne
( 1949 to 1985)

REPRESENTED State Art Galleries: NSW, VIC, SA, WA and QLD Regional Art Galleries include Newcastle and Bendigo; Private Collections Australia and Overseas

BIBLIOGRAPHY ‘Jean Appleton – a Lifetime with Art’, Deborah Edwards & Christine France (1998)
Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Susan McCulloch (Ed) Revised 1994
Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Alan McCulloch
‘Modern Painting between the Wars’, Mary Eagle (1990)
‘Early Sydney Moderns’, Jean Campbell (1988)

John Brackenreg knew Jean Appleton from the Sydney Art School days (c.1926) and Artarmon Galleries has continued that friendship with Jean over the years. When she returned from UK Jean lived at Pymble where she spent time working out her overseas inspiration until an opportunity arose to purchase Alfred Cook’s home and studio at Moss Vale.

The Australian landscape is a distinct form yet it can provide any number of landscape memories. This melded with Jean’s artistic spirit and her work at ‘Windhover’ took on a contrasting aspect - as seen in the range of her work. It could be suggested that artists subconsciously search for landscape compatibility and the southern highlands with its various surprises matched Jean’s outlook and palette.

‘Windhover’ Moss Vale became a favourite haven to paint in. This current exhibition ‘From the Studio’ features landscapes in oil, watercolour and pastel, line drawings, screen prints as well as several still life interiors and two early nudes.

 

 

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