Q U I R K
Detail ‘Fecund quest’ recycled wood & tin, paint & succulents. 2025 1620x380x380cm
‘Nascent font’ Recycled mild steel grain auger, slumped glass bowl & paint. 2025 1150x740x650cms
Annabel Nowlan
Eve Sullivan
Jane O’Neill
John Doggett-Williams
Opening 6-8 pm Thur 25th Sept 2025
25 Sept - 5 Oct.
Closing event Sunday 5th Oct 3-5pm
at
ONE STAR GALLERY
301-303
Victoria St, West
Melbourne 3003
Gallery
hours: Thur-Fri: 3-7 pm, Sat 1-7pm, Sun 1-5pm
The initial concept for Quirk emerged as an opportunity to
breathe life into our more unconventional works—to showcase the unique,
experimental, and audacious pieces that might otherwise remain hidden in studio
corners.
These mixed-media works draw from multiple reference points:
a rural childhood, experiences with farm animal husbandry, critical
reflections on Catholic doctrine, and explorations of gender
dynamics and relationship structures.
‘Fecund quest’ Recycled timber and tin, paint & succulents 2025 1620x380x380cms
‘Nascent font’ Recycled mild steel grain auger, slumped glass bowl & paint. 202 1150x740x650cms
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‘Hybrid vigour’ Vintage crutches, Metal plate, plumb bob, paint & kokedama 2025 1500x400x400‘Trouble child’ Perforated copper, tin, pencil text, paint 2025 2250x500x500cms
‘Once was a wetland’ mixed media on aluminium panels on wood 2025 trypich 60x165cms
Trouble series’ 1-2 Mixed media on tarpaulin panel on canvas 2010 - 2024 30x25cms
‘Trouble series’ 2-4 Mixed media on tarpaulin panel on canvas 2010 - 2024 30x25cms
‘Trouble series’ 5-6 Mixed media on tarpaulin panel on canvas 2010 - 2024 30x25cms
‘Horses’s cock’ Oil & acrylic on canvas 2022 25x30cms
‘Crotch watching’ Mixed media on tarpaulin on canvas 2015 25x30cms
‘Bulling’ Oil & acrylic on canvas 2020 25x30cms
‘Man’s best friend’
Mixed media on tarpaulin on canvas 2017 25x30cms
‘Vicous habits’ mixed media on canvas 2010 25x30cms
‘Teasing the nuns with laddered stockings’ Mixed media on old weatherboard 2018 17x44cms
Newstead Art, Sydney
14th - 29th March 2025
More Unfinished Maps
Mixed media and engraving on aluminium on ply 2024 90x90cms
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Quest, swaggie route. 2025 Mixed media on old tarpaulin. 84x124cms
It was common to have swagmen arrive at our farmhouse when we were kids. There was a stone placed on top of the boundary fence post that allegedly, was an indication of a friendly place for travellers.
Against the odds 2024 Mixed media on hessian 90x120cms
Planting tress on farms, barricading them against maurading animals and caring for them through dry times
takes persistance. The black and white markings in this painting are also symbolic.
‘Its certainty not doubt that causes madness’ Neitszche quote
2021
Oil & mixed media on aluminium on ply 84x103cms
Genius loci series Mixed media on tarpaulin 30x 25cms 2020-2024
Genius loci series Mixed media on tarpaulin 30x 25cms 2020-2024
Genius loci series Mixed media on tarpaulin 30x 25cms 2020-2024
Genius loci series Mixed media on tarpaulin 30x 25cms 2020-2024
Genius loci series Mixed media on tarpaulin 30x 25cms 2020-2024
Genius loci series Mixed media on tarpaulin 30x 25cms 2020-2024
Genius loci series Mixed media on tarpaulin 30x 25cms 2020-2024
Genius loci series Mixed media on tarpaulin 30x 25cms 2020-2024
Parched creekbed Mixed media on tarpaulin 50x43cm 2022
Just another gold mine 2023 Oil & mixed media on aluminium on ply 90x122cms
Slippery slope. 2023 Oil and mixed media on alumimium on ply. Dyptych 60x110cms
The inevitable spill 2024 Mixed media on aluminium on ply 60x55cms
Swaggie symbols. Oil & pigment on aluminium 60x55cms 2023
These are all recent works, there are others in the exhibition
Landscape Design
Annabel Nowlan’s Landscape Design is based on sustainable principles with an expertise in low maitenance native gardens and productive vegetation.
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