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A Trace of History (of Death and Resurrection), 2010

pastel, pencil and wash with studs, glitter & Swarovski Crystal on Saunders Waterford paper 207.0 x 80.0 cm

$22,000 SOLD

Exhibited: Art Gallery of WA as a finalist in the WA Indigenous Art Awards 2011

A Point of Order (new worlds from old power), 2010

pastel and pencil with Swarovski Crystal, glitter and wash on Saunders Waterford paper
142.0 x 185.0 cm

$30,000 SOLD

Exhibited: Atonement, Bega Regional Gallery, 1 July - 6 August 2011

Danie Mellor is a nationally acclaimed contemporary Indigenous Australian artist whose unique visual language is instantly recognisable and highly sought after. He has been included in several high profile exhibitions including WA Indigenous Art Awards 2011, Culture Warriors—Triennial of Indigenous Art (NGA, 2007), Artbank—Celebrating 25 Years of Australian Art and Primavera (MCA, 2005).

He was the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Born in Mackay, Queensland, Mellor studied and lived in Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, the Northern Territory, and the Australian Capital Territory, before working in Sydney.

Mellor studied at North Adelaide School of Art, the Australian National University and the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, before eventually becoming a lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts. He works in different media including printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture. The dominant theme in Mellor's art is the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian cultures, and the concept of secret cultural knowledge. He uses the esoteric subject of Freemasonic initiation to explore his concept.

His work is currently on exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia as part of unDISCLOSED until 22 July.

Untitled 36 2007

Mixed media on paper

38.5 x 56.5cm

$7,000

James Gleeson is considered the Father of Australian Surrealism, and was one of Australia's foremost artists. He was also a poet, critic, writer and curator, and played a significant role in the Australian art scene, including serving on the board of the National Gallery of Australia. Gleeson's themes generally delved into the subconscious using literary, mythological or religious subject matter. He was particularly interested in Jung's archetypes of the collective unconscious.

During the 1950s and '60s he moved to a more symbolic perspective, exploring notions of human perfectibility. At this time he increasingly fashioned small psychedelic compositions made using the surrealist technique of decalcomania in the background, to suggest a landscape, and finished by adding a fastidiously painted male nude in the foreground. The ideas for these compositions also saw Gleeson move into collage with his Locus Solus series, where he produced a substantial body of work by placing dismembered photographs, magazine illustrations, diagrams and lines of visionary poetry against abstract pools of ink.

His retrospective in 2004-2005, Beyond the Screen of Sight, included 120 paintings and was exhibited in Melbourne and Canberra. In 2003 the Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibited Gleeson's drawings for paintings. In September 2007, the largest collection of Australian surrealism ever collected was donated to the National Gallery of Australia by Ray Wilson. The collection included various works by James Gleeson. Gleeson died in Sydney on 20 October 2008, aged 92.

SIGIL OF BEELZEBUB

Giclee on cotton rag

80 x 80cm

limited to 49 editions only and signed by the artist

AUD $660 unframed

SOLD - limited editions remaining

LEGION 49

Giclee on cotton rag paper

110 x 160cm

limited to 49 editions only and signed by the artist

AUD $1,800 unframed

SOLD - limited editions remaining

Sydney based painter, author and performance artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. His work was a feature of the 17th Sydney Biennale, and the Adelaide Fringe Festival as part of NOKO. Hale’s work across various manifestations and themes – is about demons and apocalypse. The avatars of liberty, and the moments of true liberation , freeing and illuminating the human spirit. In his studies ‘both esoteric and aesthetic’ he has explored yogic states and even undergone periods of sensory deprivation in specifically designed laboratories. These, and other, intense methods of self investigation have led to Hale working with neuroscientists to investigate bio-feedback while in deep meditative states.

His artwork is in wide demand in esoteric circles worldwide and his limited publications through Fulgur Ltd, are highly collectable.

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A Sacred Place (The Journey)   

Oil on canvas

90 x 150cm

$7,500

A Sacred Place (Leila in Antipodes)  

Oil on canvas

90 x 150cm

$7,500

A Sacred Place (The Red Shawl)  

Oil on canvas

90 x 150cm

$7,500

A Sacred Place (Homage to Rao)  

Oil on canvas

90 x 150cm

$7,500

Kim Nelson is an Australian symbolist artist. He has been a finalist in the Black Swan Prize, the CountryArts Energy Prize, Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize amongst many others. He has completed work for UNICEF, and completed major commissions for media mogul Rupert Murdoch. 

His work can be found gracing the walls of such headquarters as News Corp., New York and the Australia High Commission in London. His current work stems from the influences of Rao, Durer and Friedrich in their search for the ultimate spirituality of art and the creative act.

Untitled (Hecate)

Oil on canvas

60 x 40cm

$NFS

Rosaleen Miriam "Roie" Norton (2 October 1917 - 5 December 1979), who used the craft name of Thorn, was an Australian artist and occultist, in the latter capacity adhering to a form of pantheistic Neopagan Witchcraft or Wicca which was devoted to the god Pan. She lived much of her later life in the bohemian area of Kings Cross, Sydney, leading her to be termed the "Witch of Kings Cross" in some of the tabloids, and from where she led her own coven of Witches.According to her later biographer, Nevill Drury, "Norton's esoteric beliefs, cosmology and visionary art are all closely intertwined - and reflect her unique approach to the magical universe." She was inspired by "the 'night' side of magic", emphasising darkness and studying the Qliphoth, alongside forms of sex magic which she had learned from the writings of English occultist Aleister Crowley.

Known as 'The Witch of Kings Cross', she openly proclaimed her dedication to occult beliefs and the 'Great God Pan', but was falsely accused by the tabloid press of holding Black Masses. On the basis of a series of confiscated photographs of simulated ceremonial rituals, she was charged in 1956 with 'engaging in unnatural sexual acts', and she unwittingly played a part in the downfall of Sir Eugene Goossens, the conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, who was a member (from 1952) of her occult group.

Norton continued to produce macabre paintings of the supernatural, though they were increasingly lurid and repetitive. She died of cancer on 5 December 1979 in the Sacred Heart Hospice, Darlinghurst. After he emerged from bankruptcy, Glover reissued The Art of Rosaleen Norton (1982) and published the Supplement to The Art of Rosaleen Norton (1984).

The Sun (Auto-Portrait) 1922

Oil on board

19 x 24.5cm

$22,000 SOLD

Exhibited at the Pompidou Centre, Paris (Traces du Sacre, 2008)

The Moon (Study for Tarot Card) 1922

Oil on board

19 x 24.5cm

$22,000 SOLD

Exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2008

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Crowley has remained an influential figure and is widely thought of as the most influential occultist of all time. In 2002, a BBC poll described him as being the seventy-third greatest Briton of all time. References to him can be found in the works of numerous writers, musicians and filmmakers, and he has also been cited as a key influence on many later esoteric groups and individuals, including Kenneth Anger, Jack Parsons, and Austin Osman Spare. His artwork has experienced a renewed interest as the public fascination increases for the man himself and his legacy to the world, Thelema. During his lifetime, Crowley founded the A:.A:. and was Frater Superior for the Ordo Templi Orientis.

A major exhibition is scheduled for November this year focusing on his artwork painted while in Cefalu (1920 - 1923) prior to his public banishment by Moussilini from Italy.

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