Shona Nunan
1997
Pastel on Paper
128.5 x 128.5 cm framed
100 x 102 cm unframed
Shona Nunan
1997
Pastel on Paper
128.5 x 128.5 cm framed
100 x 102 cm unframed
Shona Nunan
2014
pastel on paper
57 x 77 cm
Shona Nunan
2014
pastel on paper
57 x 77 cm
Shona Nunan
1997
Pastel on Paper
1285 x 1285 mm Framed
1000 x 1020 mm Unframed
Shona Nunan
1996
Pastel on paper
128.5 x 128.5 cm framed
100 x 102 cm unframed
Michael Francis Cartwright
Artist
Australian
Born 1959
Started working as an artist in 1974
General
Michael Cartwright is used to his freedom. His art is the voice of freedom. His work, whether it is sculpture or painting or drawing or printmaking, has always been that way. He alternates between inventive delightful play, where what he makes is a quirky reference to life, to serious tough and uncompromising judgement on man and nature, and then to pure luscious sensuousness when only the colour matters or forms and textures are created to abstractly convey beauty. His work is not sequential. He doesn’t care that the work is not sequential. It is the freedom of being that counts in his work and in his personal life, a life that also declares his freedom. His philosophy is about a journey in life that is inspired and connected to his inner yearnings to grow as a creator. Despite the several nuances of his nature, Cartwright over the years has developed his own signature that defines his work as his own, “I create in an attempt to destroy personal borders.” Now Cartwright lives in the Tuscan hills beyond Lucca. He paints in his studio on the green Lima River in Bagni di Lucca and goes to his studio in Pietrasanta where he carves marble or casts his work in bronze.
Exhibitions
2016 Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2015 Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2014 Sandra Walters exhibition at the Sai Kung and Aberdeen, HK
Sandra Walters Consultancy exhibition, HK
La Rondine Gallery, Drawing exhibition with Shona Nunan
La Rondine Gallery, group exhibition
2013 La Rondine Gallery Pop Up Exhibition, Sheung Wan Art Precinct, Hong Kong
La Rondine Gallery, Tuscany, Italy
2012 La Rondine Gallery, Tuscany, Italy
2010 Gallicano, Tuscany, Italy
2009 Gallicano, Tuscany, Italy
2008 Gallicano, Tuscany, Italy
2004 Art 2 Gallery, Mita Building, Singapore
2001 Art 2 Gallery, Mita Building, Singapore
2001 Sandra Walters – Rotunda, Exchange Square, Hong Kong.
2000 Lindenderry, Red Hill, Australia
2000 Sheraton Sukhumvit, Bangkok, Thailand
1999 Willums Art Foundation, Provence, France
1997 Sandra Walters, Hong Kong
1997 Ian Rogers, Melbourne, Australia
1997 Fort Canning Park, with the Shona tribe sculptors of Africa. Singapore.
1995 Solander Gallery, ACT, Australia
1995 Art 2 Gallery, Singapore
1994 Meridian Gallery, traveling show to China, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong Art Fair
1994 Meridian Gallery, collaborative exhibition with artist Tony Scott. Vic. Australia
1994 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Meridian Gallery
1993 Meridian Gallery, Vic. Australia
1992 Qdos Gallery, Lorne, Australia
1992 Castlemaine Gaol, Vic. Australia
1992 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Meridian Gallery
1991 Alchemy Gallery, Vic. Australia
1990 Castlemaine gaol exhibition, Castlemaine, Australia
1989 Wallace Bros. Gallery, Vic. Australia
1988 Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Vic. Australia
1988 Barossa Sculpture Symposium, SA. Australia
1987 Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1986 Bitumen River Gallery, ACT, Australia
1984 Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Vic. Australia
Artist Residencies
2015 Montsalvat artist in residence, Melbourne Australia
2015 Kunstler Bei Wu, Wesenberg, Germany
2013 Cill Rialaig Art Project, County Kerry, Ireland
CIS, Chinese International School Hong Kong
2011 Yew Chung Foundation, Hong Kong.
1999 Willums Art Foundation, Provence, France
1998 Cill Rialig Art Project, County Kerry, Ireland
1996 Willums Art Foundation, Provence, France
1991 Port Moresby College of Art, PNG
1990 3rd street , New York. USA
Selected commissions and projects
2016 Private commission,
‘Fishing Over Uluru’ bronze 250 x 200 cm
2013 Created hand carving marble sculpture symposium, Bagni di Lucca Arts Festival
2011 Yew Chung Foundation, Hong Kong
`Setting free the Golden Carp’ 250 x 500cm, painting for the Gallery entrance at Yew Chung, Hong Kong
Yew Chung Foundation, Hong Kong
‘Lost in the Cosmos’ 200 x 240cm venetian (smalto) glass mosaic, entrance at Yew Chung, Hong Kong
2010 Golden Metrolpolis Polo Hotel, Tianjin, China
‘Sunset’ 200 x 496cm oil on eight chestnut panels, commissioned for the Presidential suite.
2010 Morgan Stanley, head office-ICC tower, Hong Kong
`The Bank’, 810cm long, three panels, oil on linen,
2008 Capital M Beijing, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China
`Journey’ 50 meters long x varying heights, (2.2 – 5.4), oil on linen
1999 Singapore Expo building
`Passage’, 5 x 3 x 1.5 meters, bronze, granite and concrete, VIP entrance,
Private Commission
‘Reclining Figure’ black marble on granite, apprx. 200 cm tall by 250cm x 150cm
1997 Grand Plaza Hotel, Singapore
`Journey’, 2.8 x 2.5 x 1.0 meters, bronze
1996 Willums Art Foundation, Provence, France
A collection of cast bronze and steel sculptures
1993 Private commission
Memorial sculpture, ‘Boat’.
1988 Sculpture symposium Tanunda, South Australia – donation of large marble sculpture to The local council
1978 Environmental work at Portsea Bay beach, Victoria, Australia. Documented on the front page of `The Herald’, the Melbourne daily newspaper.
Michael Francis Cartwright
1998
Bronze sculpture
United Square, Singapore
Michael Francis Cartwright
1995-1996
lime stone, found steel, found wood
Artist’s collection
Shona Nunan
pastel on paper drawing
1997
AU$ 9,800
100 x 102 cm
catalogue #SND68
Michael Francis Cartwright
1999
bronze, unique cast
99 x 20 x 50 cm
When Cartwright taught briefly in the Port Moresby University in Papua New Guinea in 1991, he saw in a museum, a painting by a local artist depicting Prince Charles arriving by plane into Port Moresby. It was titled, ‘Arrival of an Important Person’. He was enamoured with the whole concept of someone arriving and being important, being given consequence, but without name. The title signified acknowledgement of all the great people arriving throughout history on their own great journeys. The simple elegant cross like forms of this sculpture seem to have a reference to Christian stories of Jesus arriving on his fishing boat, however Cartwright’s own interpretation is that anyone who arrives at your door, is important.