www.artgGALLERY EAST has closed its doors in North Fremantle

After much deliberation and with extreme reluctance we decided that we had no choice but to close Gallery East gallery in North Fremantle.

After nearly twenty two years, the current art market conditions are such that we have to call it a day.

Trading conditions have been extremely tough in the last few years and, as we see it, the art market shows no sign of improving in the foreseeable future. The Federal Government's draconian regulations for investment in art for Self Managed Superannuation Funds have effectively put an end to sales of art for these funds (estimated at 15 – 20% of the market). Moreover, as is already happening, collections of art in existing SMSFs are likely to be sold off in the next few years as investors struggle to comply with the Regulations: a bonus for those who haunt auction houses, but bad news for artists and galleries in a flooded and depressed market. In Western Australia both private collectors and the public institutions have largely withdrawn from the market and members of the public are proving to be ultra cautious faced with rising utility prices, the forthcoming carbon tax and the economic turmoil in Europe.

This is not a good prognosis for galleries and artists alike who seek to exhibit meaningful contemporary art; nor, indeed, for the cultural life of Perth, to which we believe Gallery East, through our artists have made a significant contribution during the last two decades.

We will greatly miss the gallery, but we shall seek to be part of the ongoing visual arts scene here in Perth.

GALLERY EAST ART SERVICES will provide an on-line gallery for WA artists and Japanese prints, art consultancy and continue to do valuations, curate exhibitions, and provide a hanging service second to none in Perth.

Martin Heine

A major monograph on Martin Heine's work

"Now the Hard Part, the Work of Martin Heine 1989 - 2010",

by Dr. David Bromfield, published by Brown Art was launched at Gallery East on the evening of 21 October 2011

Price: $60.

Martin, who is represented by Gallery East, has been developing his unique 'reverse painting'

technique for nearly two decades. After many initial studies, both digital and hand drawn,

he works through a fine mesh canvas painting the design from behind.

This results in work with a remarkably complex expressive facture, of which,

thanks to his recent researches, he is now the complete master.

Martin Heine has also worked as a performance artist for over twenty years.

His performance work, whether involved and elaborate or immediate and iconic,

has long been concerned with the ongoing farce of art and its audience.

Martin Heine was born in Villingen in the Black Forest, Germany, in 1957.

He first arrived in Australia in 1987. He holds a PHD in art theory from Sydney University.

He currently divides his time between Europe and Perth, Western Australia.

 

 

CODES: The Art of Janis Nedela 1982 - 2007, by David Bromfield

 

David Bromfield 's fully illustrated book on the art of Janis Nedela , co-director of Gallery East, was launched on the evening of

Thursday 7September2008 at Planet Books, Mount Lawley.

The 192 paged book is fully illustrated in colour, text runs to approximately 75,000 words, and retails at $67.50.

To order please send a cheque for $73. 50 ($67.95 + $6 p&p) with your adress to Brown Consultants,

c/- Gallery East. 94 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle, 6159

Janis Nedela has exhibited widely both in Australia and overseas. He studied Printmaking (1987)

and Graphic Design (1977) at Perth Technical College and gained his Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts)

from Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, in 1990. In Perth , WA , he is represented by

Galerie Dusseldorf, with whom he has had a long and fruitful relationship; in Melbourne , Victoria , by Uber Gallery; in Riga ,

Latvia by Bastejis Gallery, and in Albany , WA by gorepaniART.

Janis is currently a full time artist and co-director of Gallery East in North Fremantle . In 2005 he was awarded a Creative Development

Fellowship from ArtsWA (Department for Culture and the Arts) which enabled him to undertake a two month artist's residency in

Riga , Latvia culminating in his exhibition . Books + Text As An Object #2. On his return at the end of July 2006,

Bunbury Regional Art Galleries mounted a comprehensive survey exhibition of his work over the last 15 years

( 21 August – 1 October 2006) and in September he exhibited Books + Text As An Object #3 at gorepaniART Gallery, Albany, WA.

In 2007 he exhibited Running Backwards at Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth , and Running Backwards # 2 at Über Gallery, Melbourne .

Books and text has been integral to Janis's two and three dimensional works, from their early development in 1983. Since 2001

he has added performance art and multi-media animation to his art practice.

Dr David Bromfield , academic, critic and writer is the author of Fakeology, 2004, a substantial account of the work of Perth sculptor

\ Stuart Elliott and NOW 2004, a study of the work of Gosia Wlodarczak. He is the author of a number of books,

exhibitions and catalogues on Australian artists and craft makers, including Mike Parr, Elise Blumann

, Brian Blanchflower, Tony Jones, Pippin Drysdale and Thomas Horeau, and innumerable articles and

academic papers. His research and publications formed the basis for the 2001 touring exhibition, Monet and Japan.
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