An amazing new piece arrived from artist Shane Martin in the Broadbeach gallery this morning - well worth a visit just to see in person!

Shane creates this using engraving techniques, and the application of finely ground intense transparent pigments, which all lay beneath a deep layer of crystal clear glaze to give an incredible depth of colour and life to each piece. With a 3D like quality, these works transform their appearance depending on the angle of light reflection, to create an interactive experience for the viewer.

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Friday 2 December to Wednesday 21 December

Opening 6pm Friday December 2

Friday 16 September to Thursday 29 September

Opening 6pm Friday September 16

Award winning photographer Alberto Sanchez brings us some amazing new works as part of our Shutterspeed exhibition in our Byron Bay gallery.  The artworks are a colourful and reflective vision of Tokyo, a place Alberto was fascinated with when he travelled there. Alberto's hand painting on each photograph makes each piece unique and enhances the emotion you feel when viewing.  From colourful vending machines to architecture and all the quirky objects we find in Japan, Alberto has captured the bright spirited nature of the Japanese city.

'Shutterspeed', featuring Alberto's Tokyo series opens Friday 11 March 6pm at the Byron Bay gallery.  

You can view Alberto's works here.

For those of you who have been kind enough to wait, we actually have available luscious new work by one of favourite (and busiest!) artists Shane Martin. His works have been dissapearing off our walls in NSW and QLD faster than he can make them. With over 100 hours of work in each piece, these magnificent works shimmer with possibility. We only have two peices available so if you love his work, please contact us quickly! You can see his profile here.

I have been in LOVE since our 'Blind Date' over 30years ago. Shirley was the inspiration for the first LOVE piece, which has now become my most successful series to date. I wanted to create something simple in concept, but also containing a message the theme of LOVE, and incorporating all the emotions associated with it. Passion, Respect, Honour, Truth, Desire, Intimacy and Integrity. Each piece is Hand Engraved, Hand Coloured and Hand Polished a true labour of LOVE.

I still get a buzz each time that 'Wet Look' shine evolves during the polishing process, showcasing those deep, almost edible, Toffee Apple Red colours.When a person stops for just a moment to view and reflect on a piece I have created, I believe I have succeeded in my work.

Jeff Raglus will be appearing at Retrospect Galleries 4pm Saturday August 14, with some brand new paintings and a special free performance of his two person band Victoriana Gaye, as part of their East Coast Tour, presenting beautiful folk music from the ‘Freak Folk of the Wild West Coast of Victoria’.

If you can’t make it along you can still check out his work, on exhibition until Wednesday August 25.

It's So Noisy at the Fair
Media: Oil on canvas
Size: 1020mm x 820mm
$3300.00

Please ring the gallery on (02) 6680 8825 for assistance with purchasing works

The Amazingly Intricate Workings of the Brain
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 1840mm x 2440mm
$4900.00

Please ring the gallery on (02) 6680 8825 for assistance with purchasing works

Word on the Street. Media: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 1840mm x 2440mm
$4900.00

Please ring the gallery on (02) 6680 8825 for assistance with purchasing works

Happy Abductions (part 2)  Media: Acrylic on canvas

$1100.00

New arrivals this month include stunning works by Dolores Cupcake, from her A Thousand Words [or more] to Tell a Picture series, for which she spent hours writing text onto canvas, with exceptional results. 

Plus new paintings from Ross Tamlin, inspired by the lyrics of cult British band Joy Division, including tracks such as Love Will Tear Us Apart Again.

Catch these works in our Magic Faraway Tree show. 

We all ooed and aahed after unwrapping the wonderful parcel from Claude Jones whose sculptures are a cross between a dark my little pony and a cupi doll.

Read her artist profile here

And also check out her wonderful mixed media drawings

Before taking a trip overseas, Jarrah Johnson dropped off these beautiful works:

Read his artist profile here..

Sealers Cover

and Stratus over Pass

A beautiful commission for David Kegele by artist Shane Martin

View his artist profile and gallery here...

And another fantastic piece for his "Script on Metal" series, unfortunately for some, already sold.

We have had some amazing new works come through the door this month and can’t wait to get them out on display. Check out cute new paintings for young (and young at heart) art enthusiasts by Fiona Kennedy Altoft.

Unfortunately for some of you and fortunately for those of you who bought her work, we sold out of many of her fabulous new pieces at Art Melbourne.

Check out her artist gallery and remaining works here....

Nikky Morgan-Smith never ceases to amaze with her water inspired work. We loved this one of a peacock bathing in a bathroom sink.

Check out her artist profile and new work here...

We've all been excited in the gallery with John Cottrell's new direction. He painted some great abstract works inspired by baby elephants which both sold instantly at Art Melbourne.

Yes finally they have arrived (Fresh and smelling that resin smell that only new Doug Bartlett's emit)! The first release of NEW Doug Bartlett works in Australia since September 2009. Ans they are really great works.

Check out their artist profile and new works here...

We also have a fantastic special auction (silent of course) on the last remaining number 99/100 of our set of three limited edition prints and see a video on their work coming to life on the Hoodoo Gurus new album cover Read more...

This new series of fantastic landscapes created by Stephen Phibbs is some of the best work he has done in the last 20 years. Unfortunately these web images do little justice to the intricacies and detail that lie beneath the surface of his paintings.

Cornelia has delighted us all with this fantastic commission she painted for Iain Carmichael. It is super large for her 1000 x 1200mm. Keep tuned for her upcoming show Once Upon a Time...

Check out her artist profile and new works here...

Check out the great new works that have arrived in the Gallery including a fresh take on the love them by Shane Martin... with the arrival of love tattoos. This work of art positively lights up the front of the gallery at the moment. Hand ground into aluminum panels, this truly is a great work of art, and Shane is very happy with the detail he has achieved in this piece.

Shane's work has literally been jumping off the walls as fast as he can make them, and a few clients wanting commissions now have to wait six weeks for new work.

Check out the great new works that have arrived in the Gallery including another stunning circus inspired collaboration from artists Michelle Dawson and Hilary Herrmann. This wonderful new work is called Circus Tricks II. Click here to see more details on the work.

Check out the great new works that have arrived in the Gallery including one of Ross Tamlin's illusive sculptural paintings. This was done as a commission for some fantastic clients in New Zealand. Congratulations on your new piece!

We are very excited by the wild new direction that Jan's work is taking, once again it is a visual feast for the senses!

View other new work by Jan

Another fantastic cow from the stable of Cornelia Burless...

View more work by Cornelia

After the sell out of her french cars, we are excited to have some new work that focuses on ships. In this work Emma has painted the unicorn, a tall ship used to carry spices across the seas back in the last century.

View more of Emma's work

Local artist and graphic designer Rick Shearman continues to explore his interest in old cars. These cars have been recorded from various streets and neighbourhoods all around the world. "I was living in Hamburg when I encountered the BMW Isetta – I was sitting at an outdoor café when this immaculate red and tan 'thing' came and parked on the street beside me, the driver exiting from the door where any normal car … [show full description]would have a bonnet... I couldn't believe my eyes".

View more cars in this series

Retrospect is literally bursting with exciting new works this month, including lots of miniature pieces on display as part of our Petits Travaux show. We’re particularly excited about a new series of images by artist/photographer Alberto Sanchez, created using photos taken around Byron Bay over the past few years, with each piece individually manipulated and marked to create unique fine art with a vintage/surf feel.

View more of Alberto's new work

Nikky has been continuing her exploration into water and bathing rituals in some of her new work that is travelling down to Art Sydney. This work is titled '5 baths a day in shades of magenta'.

View more of her work

Again some great monoprints, by the works on paper goddess

In this new series of work, Anna Nordstrom is exploring contemporary Chinese culture through memorabilia  collected while on a visit to Shanghai in 2007.

Cigarette packets have been cut into the shapes of buildings. Photographs have been printed out on tissue paper and  embedded in encoustics. Business cards, tickets and advertising have been placed at random amongst painted Chinese landscapes. Glimpses of Mao propaganda pops its head up here and there - revealing the starting point of each work

The painted imagery are mainly taken from exhibition catalogues of  contemporary Chinese artist Xue Song who in his turn has taken his imagery from Feng Zikai – a modern cartoonist who has made a unique mark in Chinese fine arts history. Feng Zikai's work either borrow from the classics to hint what is in reality, or reveal profoundness in something common and trivial.

Xue Song's work appear to be the spitting image of Feng's original cartoons with the addition of calligraphy, brush painting and memories of colonial Shanghai as well as his signature usage of paper ashes to mark outlines.

Anna Nordstrom borrow her imagery at random from Xue Song's work. One part of a mountain, a river, houses, trees – are pulled from Xue Song's work and placed on Nordstrom's canvas where ever she finds it fitting. The additional painted imagery are copied from advertising or Nordstrom's own photography.

In these works Nordstrom is reflecting on contemporary society where nothing is really 'new' and the notion of openly borrowing from other artists, thinkers and shakers are accepted and even embraced. This concept is not new for Anna Nordstrom who, for the past 10 years has utilized used, found objects in her work to reflect on past ideas, events and actions that are affecting our contemporary society..

One of Seven great works going to Art Sydney

How beautiful is this.. One of her fantastic limited edition prints

 A fantastic new Servil by Michelle going to Sydney

We sold two of Conelia's wonderful pink cows to a lucky collector from Victoria last week. But do not despair, we still have two more available. The wonderful Hanelore and Cow Zero. Check out her gallery here for more details on the work.

Has brought in a wonderful work depicting endangered animals and plants. Its called Parrot Seed 900, and is one of the last pieces from her series of 60's pressed steel.
Check out her artist gallery here.

Birgit has been experimenting with a new technique - Acrylic on plaster. Here is one of these interesting works titled 'I Dare You'.

Click here to view her profile

Kareena Zerefos's  work continues to delight us! It evokes a delicate balance between isolation and companionship, as well as yearning and delight in long lost moments of escape to the whimsical world of make believe.

Click here to view her profile

It's great to have some new and very different work by Stephen Phibbs. He created 2 new works specifically for the 'Revolution of Art' Show.

Stephen's work 'End of the Empire' is  all about our "Obsessed with consumption and growth, the rulers of this world are prepared to use all of the world's resources at any cost".

Click here to view his profile

Artist and printmaker Sarah Harvey is currently exploring the endless possibilities of monoprinting techniques in her latest work. These works are printed with an etching press and are each unique - therefore creating one off artworks.

 Click  here to see her profile

We had two great paintings last year from American Urban artist Kelsey Brookes for our Where Mighty Giants Dwell exhibition and congratulations on the couple from Brisbane who bought one of his masterpieces, and now we have three new paintings, (one is actually a triptych- so does that make it 5-) I am so excited to get some of Kelsey's new work and so should you be, you will have to come to the Revolution of Art exhibition to see them in the flesh and you will know what I am talking about. They are almost hallucinogenic, three dimensional and thought provoking.

This painting is called the Birth of Garuda and is my favourite peice of the works coming from Kelsey, the other two are fantastic too, you will have to check out his gallery page for 'Between a forgotten Beginning' and a secret ending and 'Fine Feathers."

Click here to see his artist profile

Donna Malone grew up in Sydney, raised her 4 children in the Byron Shire, and is a now, a full time practising and exhibiting artist, based in Brisbane.

Well her new work speaks for itself and has been getting a great response, we at Retrospect love the moodiness of her work and her depth of emotion. Donna brought in this great work, ink on Saunders Waterford paper for us called "I can't keep track of each fallen robin..."a mysterious watery figure freefalling through time and place. It lasted about five days on the wall, but you all deserve to have a look at it so we are posting it anyway..

Donna says "I have always responded to life by Drawing. Drawing daily is a necessity for me and keeps me connected to myself. I am an instinctual artist who uses a diverse range of materials and techniques in a compelled and impulsive way. I am interested in spontaneity, paradox, the liminal (spaces between), indigenous culture, anamorphism and the human form." 

Click here to see Donna's artist profile

Hilary is motivated to paint by the need to express her thoughts and imagination. The figures, creatures and visual references often reflect a wide-ranging curiosity and reference. A diverse range of sources that include fragments and abstractions from world mythologies, the kabbalah, poetry, novels, current affairs and personal memory.

Hilary brought in this delightful series of five gorgeous 200 x 300mm paintings (only three left now) and we are really happy with how they have turned out. They are called voices in my head, internal flight, small blue thoughts, thoughts of a blue bird and many shapes form my dreams. This series of work relates to the place where we collect our hopes, fantasies, anxieties and fears… They are part of us, and filter out in everyday connections with the world. Sometimes there is an inability to control these feelings and urges. Sometimes these are acceptable social norms but sometimes they are not. They can be as harmless as a daydream and this work is about safe places to escape.

Click here to see her new work and artist profile..

For those of you waiting for new Mia Taninaka paintings and for those of you who don't know who she is because her work sells out so fast don't worry, we have three new paintings  In the true style of Mia, who mixes shamanistic elements, nature and anthropomorphism these delight the senses taking us to a world where the sea is reclaiming what was once its own...

This painting is called The Mothership, and the photo does little justice to the intricate detail and texture of her work, but you can get an idea.

Check out Mia's artist profile and see her other available works of art.