ARTIST SPOTLIGHT - Matthew Ablitt

What's in The Vault,  August 2010 Edition

The Corporate Vault Fine Art Dealers & Consultants presents, What's in the Vault?: a Monthly highlight for contemporary art collectors.

Each month we select works from the Collection featuring artists leading the contemporary art scene from Australia and overseas for you to view.

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About the Artist

Matthew Ablitt was nurtured creatively and born into a family excelling professionally in pottery, design, textile design, weaving and painting. He studied at St. Martins College of Art and Design BA (Hons.) in the United Kingdom and then apprenticed with prestigious Master Printers of London in studios including Pauper’s Press and Hope Sufferance Press. He has had the privilege to assist in production of prestigious etchings such as those by Anish Kapoor in the collection of the Art Gallery of NSW.

Prior to arriving in Australia, Matthew has embarked upon extensive world travel and cites such diverse influences as Asian culture, Moroccan art and pivotal cultural relics from Ancient Greece and Italy as central in his work.

“My work has almost always been based around the figure and the emotive power of the human form which I intensify by evading the face and focusing on the articulation of hands, feet, body language, setting and through the use of unusual perspective. I incorporate abstract forms and repetitive or fractal patterns in order to invoke feeling and suggest an evolving situation. Landscape is also used as a backdrop in order to imply narrative."

“My work is infused with the predominant themes of Belonging and Faith. I am hoping to express that we are guided by the emotive forces, Doubt and Desire.”

The Suspension Series

Matthew’s new series "Suspension" is in a very limited edition of ten (10) only mono-print etchings. The series consists of three works on paper 49 x 56cm, Suspension I, II and III. Each etching is $480.00, unframed and available exclusively from The Corporate VAULT. We are very proud to offer the artist's current collected works - inspection is invited by appointment. Matthew's works range in price from $280 to $2000. Please view our online gallery www.thecorporatevault.com.au for all of Matthew’s works and for works by other artists. Our curators can also be contacted on 1300 210 911 if you would like to view the works in your home or office.   About The Corporate VAULT The Corporate VAULT is a Fine Art Consultancy specialising in leading Australian and international Fine Art. We combine expertise in art, art education and astute investment to guide the process of art acquisition and placement. Our client base spans investors, private collectors, corporate art buyers, and first time art purchasers seeking the finest quality artwork by emerging, mid career and globally established artists.

“Between the Essence” by Panchali Sheth

New Work by Panchali Sheth Presented by The Corporate Vault throughout May at the 3 Stories Exhibition

Featured at Tom Dunne Gallery - 11 Little Burton St Darlinghurst 4th - 31st May 2010.

The recent paintings of Contemporary Abstract Expressionist artist, Panchali Sheth, explode on the surface of the canvas like spontaneous manifestations of energy in a parallel universe.

Just as ancient Vedic philosophy attempts to describe the microcosmic and macrocosmic streams of consciousness that make manifest our existence, Sheth’s paintings suggest nothing less ambitious.

Trained in the Western tradition of painting as an Indian born, Australian artist, Sheth is exploring the unquantifiable nuances of childhood memory that revisit her and demand expression. An upbringing in Bombay, India has become the subject of her artistic pilgrimage and the tension that drives the potency of her paintings is the urge to reconcile her past with her present life in Australia.

We are taken on sensual, energetic forays into glimpses of a cultural heritage steeped in history and mysticism. Sheth openly embraces a ritualistic process when embarking on her painterly process. Textures are laid onto the linen canvas in ritual preparatory manner and then the dance of a frenzied, pigment laden brush begins. This energetic technique invokes a sense of ecstasy and shamanistic consciousness.

In ‘Between the essence - Triptych’ Sheth  spills pigments like magical powders and vials of saffron in explosions of colour. The frenzy of midsummer heat and religious festival is conveyed and yet this work holds a sublime and beautiful stillness. The vacuous space between matter may well hold the energetic seeds of a universe, or a new life…

‘A Visit to the Temple’ is an almost Baroque invocation of the dark mystery of an ancient building lit only by a candle. The manifestation of light in the darkness holds so much portent as the red of blood and the yellow of sulphur bring even aroma to this mysterious glimpse into the past.

A Visit to the Temple - Panchali Sheth Oil on Canvas 30 x 30cm (c) Sheth 2010

For a complete preview of the exhibition: http://www.thecorporatevault.com.au/Vault/Events.html or visit the Gallery each day from 10am - 6pm Monday to Saturday or by appointment by calling 1300 210 911.

New Work by Suzanna Lang

New Work by Suzanna Lang to be Presented by The Corporate Vault in May

If there are positive omens in the Feng Shui of a New Studio, they are certainly evident in New Work by Suzanna Lang.

In unison with Conchita Carambano and Panchali Sheth, Lang will launch her most recent collection of paintings with the Corporate Vault on May 4th at the Tom Dunne Gallery, Darlinghurst.

Having juggled parenting and painting in the kitchen for some time, Lang has finally had the gate opened into new creative pastures. This series of abstract works are distinguished by painterly linear gestures which, in their dancing and colourful profusion, envisage perspective in abstract space.

The surface of Lang’s works is readily recognisable. Sumptuous layers of glossy varnish coat a patinated bed of textural oils. Her career has been deeply impressioned by years of work in ceramics where glazes and kiln temperatures were used to generate sensual crusts and molten finishes.

Lang’s work is readily imagined in the domestic spaciousness of a contemporary warehouse residence or aloft a private collection of Ming shards and archaeological relics. The textures and hues of her inclination are sensitive to All Seasons.

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New Works by Carambano

Conchita Carambano meets her colleagues Panchali Seth and Suzanna Lang in a new group exhibition , Three Stories with the Corporate Vault in May.

In a new direction for the artist Carambano has sagely selected a dark palette that anchors her work in the vibrant company of her two peers. She articulates an elegance in these paintings which sweep the spectrum of her expressive distinction. Forms are simplified and confident. The etched details of figures and activities indent the surface of her oils haphazardly and yet perfectly permanent.

Some pieces, such as ’The Ground Place,‘ invoke the wintry shadows of ledges of snow in curvaceous motion where ice cuts into the earth. Others in this deep or neutral palette are stained with a poignant mark of ultramarine. Our curiosity and imaginative questioning is constantly stimulated as we relate to, wonder at and seek to interpret, the eloquent language of this artist.

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The Corporate Vault - Exhibition Announcement: Three Stories

The Corporate Vault announces the Three Stories Exhibition

The limelight is about to descend on the stories of three women artists who, with Conchita Carambano, will  enter centre stage in an exhibition with The Corporate Vault in May.

Panchali Sheth is of Indian background, trained and practiced in the tradition of Western Contemporary Expressionism. She utilises a visual language with which we are familiar, to invite us into a sensual and emotional experience of her rich cultural heritage. One painterly canvas will dance with the colourful fertility of a midsummer festival in its’ ecstasy. The ominous work beside it will envelope us in the meditational woodsmoke of an  evening in an ancient city.

Suzanna Lang returns to her palette and canvas in a new studio with new stories to tell. Her distinctive encrusted surfaces and icy patinas are in themselves a beautiful justification for the witnessing of her work.

The Three Stories of Carambano, Lang and Sheth opens on May 4th at Tom Dunne Gallery Sydney.

The exhibition can be RSVP online at the following URL: Register

Information: web@thecorporatevault.com or call 1300 210 911

The Corporate Vault - Launches Online Virtual Tour of Exhibition

The Corporate Vault Launches The Virtual tour of Ruins Romance & Reinvention

Ruins, Romance and Re-invention: Italy's Modern Art Revival has inspired The Corporate Vault to present an extraordinary selection of key works drawn from contemporary Italian visual, ceramic and sculptural art together with Australian art inspired by the beauty and romance that is Italy...

The Exhibition has proven to be an amazing success with over 200 guests on opening night. Due to the popularity of the exhibition The Corporate Vault will be extending the show for the months of February and March. These beautiful works will only be available in country for a short time so this is a rare opportunity to capture a little piece of Italy for your home or office.

The exhibition can be previewed online at the following URL: Virtual Tour Link Online Preview

    Link to Current Exhibition Virtual Tour

Or past the following URL to your web browser:
http://www.thecorporatevault.com.au/Vault/Exhibition_Tour_L1.html

More Information: web@thecorporatevault.com or call 1300 210 911 

The exhibition is Open 11:00AM - 06:00PM weekdays and until 03:00PM Saturday @ 72 Erskine St Sydney.

Italy's Modern Art Revival: Italian Arts Culture in Australia Today

The Corporate Vault is amassing a collection of art works that are gathering anything but dust. This Art Gallery of the new era has captured treasures, as if from secret storage, and is bringing them to light. This year begins in romantic dialogue with Bellagio, a historic village on the edge of the Lago di Como in Italy. Resident Artist Maurice Bekeart has created a collection of tesselated panels in heavily worked papers glistening with shellac and resembling articulated sheets of ancient velum traced with the geometries and motifs of a mysterious communication.

These rich Italian contributions are met by Australian painter and Sculptor Conchita Carambano whose work has been selectively gathered by the Corporate Vault to illuminate the theme of Romance, Ruins and Re Invention. A series of potent paintings on the subject of Pompeii are amongst her most contemporary and courageous. Beside these works are raised a collection of her recent sculpture which in their idiosyncratic freedom,resemble the toys of a royal child. They are playful and elegant assemblages that foretell the motifs in her paintings and gradually educate us in a new language of symbols, entirely her own.

Carambano's gorgeous oil paintings portray forms as powerful monoliths, like the torrs of Stonehenge poised in relationship and embedded in a gentille layering of pigments and seams of colour.

The Corporate Vault illuminates another artist in their February exhibition. Photographic collages by Anna Harpley embellish a perspective of European artistic culture in sumptuous and surreal fusions of fabric, stone, sky and water. Figures are poised in visionary landscapes embedded with the relics of cultural heritage exemplified by Italy and the Italians.

This exhibition and collection is surely a romantic adventure!

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Anna Harpley: "Night"