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Charles Nodrum Gallery Charles Nodrum Gallery presents regularly changing solo and group exhibitions of modern and contemporary Aus art with a strong focus on 1960s abstraction.

Parking: 2 Hour in surrounding streets (Church St, Abinger St, Hodgson Terrace, Coles)

Charles Nodrum is a qualified valuer for all periods of Australian art with the Federal Government Cultural Gifts Scheme. The gallery provides advice on collection management, valuations, conservation, restoration, framing and installation. The gallery also deals extensively on the secondary market – both selling work on consignment for clients and dealing on its own account. Prior to opening the gallery in 1984, Charles Nodrum worked at the Joseph Brown Gallery (1971-5), managed Christie's Melbourne office (1975-8), and was a principal researcher for Alan McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art (1984 edition). Gallery Manager Kate Nodrum is full time.

Jan MurrayRAPT10 - 31 OctoberPlease join us for opening drinks with the artist on Saturday 10th October, 3-5pmOur thanks...
24/09/2026

Jan Murray
RAPT
10 - 31 October

Please join us for opening drinks with the artist on Saturday 10th October, 3-5pm

Our thanks to Sean Lowry for his masterful overview of Jan's career "The Art of Looking Twice: Jan Murray’s Exacting Pleasures" which will appear in the next issue of Art Collector

Here's a taste:

"Jan Murray’s paintings open a suspended moment in which certainty slips and looking becomes irresistible. Initially, an object may seem to literally occupy the wall before us. Then the eye catches up. What appeared to be an ordinary object reveals itself as a meticulously painted image. Then, what briefly seemed flat acquires volume as an image-object, while what looked instantly legible turns strangely elusive. Murray’s art might begin with seduction, but its real subject is the unstable relationship between an image, an object and the person beholding both... In Rapt, Murray’s latest series to date, her long engagement with painting’s theatre takes another compelling turn. On one level, her work asks the deceptively simple question: what is real here? Yet the answer keeps playfully oscillating between surface and object, recognition and doubt, meticulous discipline and pleasure. Murray does not simply trick the eye. She rewards it for returning and staying in a place that suspends literal interpretation."

Text courtesy Art Collector Magazine, 2026
Photography by Christo Crocker

Fully illustrated and priced catalogue online now

Image:
Rapt (turquoise), 2026, oil on linen, 61 X 61cm

George Johnson: Centenary Exhibition15 August - 5 SeptemberPlease join us for opening drinks with the artist’s family on...
31/07/2026

George Johnson: Centenary Exhibition
15 August - 5 September
Please join us for opening drinks with the artist’s family on Saturday 15th August, 3-5pm
The exhibition will be opened with words from David Hurlston, former Senior Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Victoria

Our thanks to Carolyn Barnes, Associate Professor
Academic Director, Research Training in the School of Design and Architecture, Swinburne University of Technology for her catalogue essay. It can be read in full online now, and begins:

"George Johnson’s (1926-2021) career spanned across the rise of modern art, its dissolution into postmodernism and then the diffusion of visual art into pluralistic, post-medium contemporaneity. Across these shifts, Johnson maintained an unwavering commitment to abstraction as a reflective practice through which he sought to give form to human experience and social relations."

https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exhibitions/george-johnson-centenary-exhibition/

David Rankin & Port Jackson Press 18 July - 8 AugustThe list of artists who worked with PJP include John Olsen, Lloyd Re...
07/07/2026

David Rankin & Port Jackson Press
18 July - 8 August

The list of artists who worked with PJP include John Olsen, Lloyd Rees, David Aspden, John Peart, Brett Whiteley, Fred Cress, Victor Majzner, Keith Looby, and many more.

Here are just a small selection of works by other artists which David acquired, often by exchange, during his time running PJP in Melbourne.

We’re sorry that David and Lily won’t be able to make it to Australia for this exhibition as planned, and so won’t be holding an opening event for the show. But we look forward to welcoming visitors to enjoy this small slice of Australian printmaking history.

Fully illustrated catalogue now online: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exhibitions/david-rankin-and-port-jackson-press/

David Rankin & Port Jackson Press 18 July - 8 AugustIn 1975 David Rankin established Port Jackson Press (PJP) in Sydney,...
07/07/2026

David Rankin & Port Jackson Press
18 July - 8 August

In 1975 David Rankin established Port Jackson Press (PJP) in Sydney, then in 1983 relocated it to Melbourne where he and his first Melbourne employee - Inara Johnston - ran it from premises in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. In 1989 Rankin moved to live in New York, leaving behind several folios of his own and other artists’ prints that had been produced at PJP, along with further works of his own from the period and works by other artists he’d acquired through exchange. After decades of generous storage by Inara, the works have come into the gallery for cataloguing and sale.

Read Kate Nodrum's full exhibition introduction and view the fully illustarted catalogue online now: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exhibitions/david-rankin-and-port-jackson-press/

Works on Paper from the Charles Nodrum Collection20 June - 11 JulyThe works in this exhibition may cause some surprise. ...
12/06/2026

Works on Paper from the Charles Nodrum Collection
20 June - 11 July

The works in this exhibition may cause some surprise. As both dealer and collector the central focus is late 20th century and here you will find graphics from the voyages of discovery, a few late 19th century landscapes, watercolours from the 20s and 30s including examples of the “blotting paper” school – as well as a number of artists you have never even heard of.
The first painting I bought was a Passmore drawing and the second was a Mike Brown – both from Joseph Brown; these were followed by a Philips Fox and a Tom Roberts and a Russell from France, but it soon became clear that finances were not sufficient to continue along that path. I sold the Passmore to Gary Anderson to help start my gallery, followed by the Roberts, the Russell and the Fox - probably to pay down mortgages.
With a few exceptions (Glover, Carse, Streeton) commercial interest in the traditional schools fell away and the more recent acquisitions of works by lesser- known artists derive from a short-lived aim to assemble a wide-ranging collection of works on paper - an enterprise abandoned as too time consuming and distracting.
For what it’s worth, the “Discovery” graphics were acquired while reading Bernard Smith’s mind-changing work European vision and the South Pacific, others by exchange (Whistler), by astonishment of the sheer quality of the work (Fizelle), nostalgia (Echuca was where I first met my Australian cousins), friendship (Daryl Lindsay nearly changed my career when he suggested I should apply for the position of director of the McClelland Gallery, of which he was the chair), but mostly out of curiosity to live with a work to see if my appreciation grew.
I have added brief notes to a number of individual works where appropriate. Feel free to ask any questions.
Charles Nodrum, June 2026

Fully illustrated and priced catalogue on works on our website: https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/

Exhibition Extended!JOHN PEART: EARTH & GLOWwill continue till 11 JulyAn exhibition of paintings from the Estate of the ...
12/06/2026

Exhibition Extended!
JOHN PEART: EARTH & GLOW
will continue till 11 July

An exhibition of paintings from the Estate of the Artist, to celebrate the publication of the artist’s monograph.

Edited by Sioux Garside, printed by Spitting Image and published by King Street Studios, the extensively illustrated 268 page publication includes contributions from
Chris Saines CNZM, Director, QAGOMA
Anne Ryan, Curator of Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Quentin Sprague, author, curator, arts writer
Joe Frost, artist, arts writer
Sioux Garside, curator, arts writer
Virginia Milson, collector

Copies available for purchase $80
Fully illustrated and priced catalogue of works online

JONAS BALSAITIS: Selected Works 1968-20012 - 23 MayPlease join us and the artist for the opening celebration on Saturday...
23/04/2026

JONAS BALSAITIS: Selected Works 1968-2001
2 - 23 May
Please join us and the artist for the opening celebration on Saturday 2 May, 3-5pm

This exhibition is composed of works belonging to the artist – and most of them were included in his highly impressive retrospective exhibition titled Analogue, held in Canberra at the Australian National University’s Drill Hall Gallery in 2025 and curated by Drill Hall Gallery curator, Oscar Capezio.

Copies of the extensive exhibition catalogue are now available, making an important addition to that published for his retrospective exhibition Through the surface: Jonas Balsaitis paintings 1968-1992, held at Monash University Gallery in 1994 and guest curated by author and academic Carolyn Barnes.

This exhibition covers much, but by no means all, of the varied work in the Canberra show and will give Melbourne visitors the opportunity to see them on the wall, not just on the page. This includes a suite of works not seen before – his Palette Paintings, produced in 1994. It is characteristic of the artist to think laterally in choosing to paint on Coreflute, a lightweight, durable, corrugated plastic sheeting usually associated with more practical uses such as signage.

Also on view during this exhibition will be the artist’s 1977 film Space Time Structures. C.N.

Our thanks to Oscar Capezia and Giles Fielke for their assistance on this show.

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Thursday 11am - 5pm
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