Bridget McDonnell Gallery

    Member of ANZAAB - Australia


    Art: Australian Art: Colonial Art: Marine Art: Topographical Posters Prints

Established 1983 in High Street Armadale, our Gallery moved to Carlton in 1986.

We have held catalogue exhibitions of Early Australian Watercolours and Drawings; Early Australian Painters; Modern Australian Paintings; Artists Exhibiting in London 1880 - 1940; Australian Women Artists; Australian Prints and an annual Christmas exhibition

We also exhibit Post War Realist Artists from St. Petersburg, Ukraine, Crimea and Siberia in conjunction with our good friend in London, John Barkes

Artists featured: James H. Carse, William Strutt, Jessie Traill, Ethel Carrick Fox, Hilda Rix Nicholas, Will Ashton, Percy Leason, Eric Thake, Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Eric Stewart, Clifford Bayliss, Brigid Cole -Adams, Mary Hammond, Celia Perceval, Peter Trusler, Peter Brown, Juliana Hilton, Margaret Flockton, and Richard Hussey Shaw

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Store Hours

Sunday, Monday: Closed

Tuesday - Friday: 11-5 pm

Saturday: 12-5 pm

Highlights

Mt. Dromedary and Inlet c1880 by James Howe Carse
$15000
At the Inaugural Arts Society of NSW Exhibition in 1880, James Howe Carse exhibited ten paintings mainly of scenes on the south coast of NSW, with another ten in 1883, two in 1884 and nine in 1885. According to Stephen Scheding, this painting could date from any of those years. Carse painted scenes of Bermagui, Tilba Tilba, Wallaga Lake, Mount Dromedary amongst others. This painting was also exhibited at Charles Nodrum Gallery in 2023 and was in private collection in NSW until 2018.
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Rainbow Lorikeet in a Suburban Garden 1978 by Peter Trusler
$8000
Rainbow Lorikeet in a Suburban Garden 1978 (25 x 34 cm) is part of Peter Trusler's Birds of Australian Gardens series which he worked on alongside authors Tess Kloot and Ellen M. McCulloch. Their collective four year commitment to study and research birds in Australia had a significant contribution to ornithological artistry and literature. Trusler uses a 'photographic' style in order to present every detail of colour to utmost value. The painting has been in The National Bank Collection of Modern Art from 1980 until 2022.
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Fishwives, Etaples c1910 by Hilda Rix Nicholas
$8500
Fishwives, Etaples is a pastel on paper (35.7 x 26.5 cm) dated circa 1910. Hilda was born in Ballarat, Victoria. She had a studio in the artists' colony at Etaples. With the declaration of war in 1914, she escaped Etaples to England. This piece was exhibited in her 1922 Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of Australian Life and Landscape (No. 30, 15 gn) which toured provincial English galleries. These idealized images of the Australian 'country, its beauty and types of virile manhood', stimulated migration to Australia from northern towns disrupted by industrial unrest (Avenel Mitchell,1988)
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