Presents ZILVERSTER SHARON GOODWIN IRENE HANENBERGH

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1 Presents ZILVERSTER SHARON GOODWIN IRENE HANENBERGH 13 February 21 March 2015

2 ZILVERSTER Sarah Scout Presents is delighted to present Zilverster, a collaboration between Melbourne based artists Sharon Goodwin and Irene Hanenbergh. Zilverster was the girlfriend of a friend a beautiful, alluring and mysterious woman, imbued with desirable female traits. She was gentle, empathetic, sexy; perfect in very way, except as it turned out not real at all. She was an archetype and a wonderful fiction, though one that was never completely dispelled. Zilverster is also the first public presentation of an ongoing collaborative project between Goodwin and Hanenbergh, artists who have garnesred strong individual reputations for their imaginative, elaborate and meticulously rendered drawing practices. What began four years ago as a problem solving exercise with an artist offering problematic, unfinished works to the other for advice on resolution has evolved into a joint practice whereby new drawings are created specifically for the other to complete. While there are many shared interests and concerns between the two artists (art) history, fantasy, cult iconography, alchemy, supernatural phenomena to name a few each operates from a distinct temporal and imaginative framework. Goodwin s contributions are rooted in a medieval, Gothic context while Hanenbergh s derive from a Romantic sensibility. Through the process of swapping back and forward, the drawings undergo various concealments and transformations until by mutual consent deemed complete. Zilverster comprises a series of beautiful, fantastical drawings that are compelling in their strangeness.

3 Catalogue of works Left: The Pact (Edelweiss) Ink on Canson archival paper (framed) 42 x 29.7 cm (paper size) Above: Dada Roman Alchemia Ink and pencil on Canson archival paper (framed) 29.7 x 42 cm (paper size)

7 cm (paper size) Above: Dior (Notae Lore) Ink and pencil

4 Left: Dresscode, proclamations & Keppler s Tuberose (New Amsterdam) Ink on Canson archival paper (framed) 42 x 29.7 cm (paper size) Above: Dior (Notae Lore) Ink and pencil on Canson archival paper (framed) 29.7 x 42 cm (paper size)

5 Left: As above, so below (Danzig) Ink on Arches archival paper (framed) 57 x 38.5 cm (paper size) Above: A boy steals cherries. Ink and pencil on Canson archival paper (framed) 42 x 59.4cm (paper size)

6 Left: Madrid to Edinburgh (a Masonic journey) Ink on Arches archival paper (framed) 57 x 38.5 cm (paper size) Above: Mountains, Alexandria (Augur) Ink and pencil on Canson archival paper (framed) 42 x 59.4cm (paper size)

7 Left: As below, so above (Pulp fiction) Ink on Canson archival paper (framed) 59.4 x 42 cm (paper size) Above: Get behind me Satan & push Ink on Canson archival paper (framed) 42 x 59.4cm (paper size)

8 Left: Harder than the Battle of Stalingrad Ink on Arches archival paper (framed) 57 x 38.5 cm (paper size) Above: Libertine & Lohr (Autumn) Ink on Canson archival paper (framed) 42 x 59.4cm (paper size)

9 Above: In tenderness we seek (We are one) Ink and pencil on Arches archival paper (framed) 56 x 76.3cm (paper size)

10 Above: 18th Century Equaliser (500 years) Ink on Arches archival paper (framed) 56 x 76.3cm (paper size)

11 Above: Taal (The Philippines) Ink on Stonehenge archival paper (framed) 56 x 76.3cm (paper size)

12 Above: It s in your self-interest to find a way (The Chambers) Ink on Stonehenge archival paper (framed) 56 x 76.3cm (paper size)

13 Sharon Goodwin SHARON GOODWIN completed a BFA (Painting) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1997, and has shown extensively both in Australia and overseas. Solo exhibitions include those at Uplands, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space and TCB Gallery. She has participated in group exhibitions at The National Gallery of Victoria, RMIT Gallery, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Monash University Museum of Art, Bendigo Art Gallery, Plimsoll Gallery (Hobart) University of Sydney Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), GrantPirrie Gallery (Sydney), University of Queensland Art Museum (Brisbane) Gallery Side 2, (Japan) Artspace (Sydney) and The Physics Room (New Zealand). Goodwin was a founding committee member of both TCB Gallery and collaborative art group DAMP. Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Monash University and numerous private collections. irene hanenbergh IRENE HANENBERGH completed a Master of Fine Arts by Research at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) in She also holds a BFA (Hon) in Painting and Sculpture from The Academy of Fine Arts Minerva (1988, The Netherlands), a BFA (Hon) in Printmaking, from The Athens School of Fine Arts (1995, Greece) and completed a Post Graduate Program at The Royal College of Art (in 1992, London, UK). Intermittently, over the last 25 years, she has spent considerable time on artist residencies and for the purpose of exhibitions, in various locations across Europe, Asia and the USA (New York City). Her work is held in public and private collections in the Asia-Pacific, Europe and the USA including the QU Museum, the Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania), Artbank Australia, ABSOLUT European Collection(Sweden), Centre for Contemporary Art, Collection ASKT(Greece) and Rabobank(The Netherlands). Hanenbergh was twice named as one of Australia s 50 Most Collectible Artists by Australian Art Collector and is represented by Neon Parc (Melbourne).

14 Presents Sarah Scout Presents Victor Horsley Chambers Level 1/12 Collins Street Melbourne 3000 Australia T: sarahscoutpresents.com

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