Shadows of Desire OPENING SATURDAY 31ST AUGUST 2019, 3-5PM In recent work, Rosemary Valadon re-engages the still life tradition and the shadows cast by gender roles and stereotypes that upset the […]
The Goddess Series (1990-1996)
Painted between 1990 and 1992. At this time Valadon was captivated by Greek and Minoan mythology and the way the female body was used to carry and reveal meaning. These works have great optimism and are a testimony to the goodness and healing powers of women. They were exhibited at the Blaxland Gallery Sydney.
Before the Fall won the Blake Religious Art Prize, and One Flesh was exhibited in the Archibald and won the Portia Geach Portrait Prize. Other works were exhibited in the Sulman exhibition, and Ruth Cracknell’s portrait purchased for the National Portrait Gallery. Dr Dian Losche described the exhibition: “Valadon entices the viewer into speculation in the mythical planes of these portraits by lush, baroque opulence of paint, ornament and symbol. These paintings are blatant in their imagery, theatricality and seduction. Although we humans inhabit this earth do we not also soar and dive between the excesses of heaven and hell? It is to such spaces, but displacing the heaven and hell of Christianity, that Rosemary Valadon’s paintings lead us.”
cat. essay Blaxland Gallery exhibition Sept 1992 – The Goddess Series
The Blake Book essay 2011Before the Fall 1991, oil on wood 152 x 152 cm.
Awarded Blake Religious Art Prize 1991
Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl, oil on canvas 183x122cm.
Finalist Portia Geach Prize 1995
Germaine Greer as Artemis 1992, oil on canvas.
Finalist Portia Geach Prize Exhibition 1992
Dale Spender as Europa
Finalist Portia Geach Prize Exhibition; private collection
Noni Hazlehurst as Hestia, oil on wood
152 x 152cm
Finalist Archibald Prize Exhibition; private collection
Mirabel Fitzgerald as Hera, oil on canvas 122 x 183cm
Exhibited Blaxland Gallery
Circe - Margarita Georgiadis, oil on canvas 152x212cm.
Finalist Sulman Prize 1995
Elizabeth Day as Persephone, oil on canvas 122 x 183cm.
Exhibited Blaxland Gallery
"One Flesh" - Frances Joseph as Gaia',
oil on wood 153 x 153cm.
Finalist Archibald Prize 1990
Winner Portia Geach Portrait Prize 1991
Annette Bezor as Aphrodite 1992, oil on canvas 122 x 183cm.
Exhibited Blaxland Gallery
Janette Turner Hospital as Ariadne, oil on canvas 122 x 183cm
Finalist Portia Geach Portrait Prize Exhibition
Sue Begg as Demeter, oil on canvas 122 x 183cm
private collection
Aphrodite 1991, oil on wood 152x 152cm.
Exhibited Blaxland Gallery
Deborah Conway as Medusa, oil on canvas (detail).
Finalist Archibald Prize Exhibition 1996
Blanche d’Alpuget as Athena, oil on canvas.
Finalist Archibald Prize Exhibition 1995
Abruzzese Woman (Hecate)-Anna-Maria Dell'Oso, 1994,oil on canvas.
Finalist Portia Geach Prize 1995
Wagner Contemporary