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Charles Nodrum first opened his gallery in Richmond in 1984 and has since been the leading advocate of mid-century Australian abstraction. Born in England in 1947, Charles moved to Australia in the early 1970s and began working for the eminent Melbourne art dealer Joseph Brown (artist). From 1975-78 he was the Melbourne Representative for Christie's Australia and from 1979-1983 he was Research Assistant to Alan McLeod McCulloch on the 1984 edition of the Encyclopaedia of Australian Art. In 1984 he opened a gallery in Church Street, Richmond and moved to the current premises at 267 Church Street in 1988. An accredited valuer for all periods of Australian art with the Federal Government's Cultural Gifts Program since its inception in 1978, Nodrum has completed major corporate and public valuations including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Brisbane), Allan, Allan and Hemsley (Sydney), The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 1980s (Melbourne), The Arts Centre Melbourne, The Holmes a Court Collection (Perth), Gippsland Art Gallery Collection, La Trobe Regional Gallery Collection, Hamilton Gallery Collection, and Warrnambool Art Gallery.

Artists & Exhibitions

Early exhibitions included work by Peter Upward, John Olsen (artist), Mike Brown, George Johnson (artist), David Aspden and John Peart (artist). Group exhibitions, variously titled Modern Australian Painting, included works by mid-century figurative painters like Godfrey Miller, Ian Fairweather, John Passmore, Charles Blackman, Joy Hester and George Bell (painter), through to the textured and expressionistic works on Frank Hodgkinson, Stan Rapotec, Roger Kemp, Peter Kaiser and Elwyn Lynn. Since 2000 his yearly group shows titled Abstraction have showcased historical and contemporary Australian abstract artists including Ron Robertson-Swann, Norma Redpath, Sydney Ball, Paul Partos, Trevor Vickers, Jonas Balsaitis, Leonard Brown, Richard Dunn, David Harley and Don Laycock. Other major group shows include Australian Surrealist Paintings, 1991, Central Street, 1990, The Changing Face of Melbourne, 1993, and The Hutchinson Collection, 2014. Since the late 1990s Nodrum has held regular exhibitions of Australia's leading surrealist painter James Gleeson. His stable also includes a group of contemporary figurative painters; Kristin Headlam, Tom Alberts, Sadie Chandler, and sculptor Clive Murray-White.

Personal Collection

Exhibitions of Charles Nodrum's personal collection include Fresh Fields: 1960s-70s Abstraction from the Charles Nodrum Collection, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 6 February - 28 March, 2004 & Benalla Art Gallery, 8 May - 6 June, 2004 and Unearthed: Fifty years of Australian Landscape Art from the Charles Nodrum Collection, La Trobe University Art Museum, 16 July- 29 August, 2010.

References

McCulloch, Alan, Susan & Emily, The New Encyclopedia of Australian Art, The Meigunyah Press, 2006 (Fourth Edition), p 1134

Blouin Modern Painters, 500 Best Galleries Worldwide 2015, Vol XXVII, No 8, p 88

Fabris, Ariana, (2016), ‘Something Old, Something New, The Period Home Renovator, p 2 - 7

Fraser, Suzanne, ‘Charles Nodrum Gallery at 30, The Melbourne Review, March, 2014, p 26

Wilson, Ashleigh, ‘Dealers hang art levy out to dry’, The Australian, 31 May, 2010, p 1 & 4

Crawford, Ashley, (2002, Issue 22, October-December), ‘Countercyclical Charles’, Art Collector Magazine, p 76-78

Reviews

Allen, Christopher, ‘Abstraction Anchored in History’, The Australian, 10 November, 2011

Smee, Sebastian, The Weekend Australian, 10-11 November, 2007

Makin, Jeff, ‘Autumn brings out the mods’, Herald Sun, 27 March, 2006, p 86

Ingram, Terry, ‘Abstracts unappreciated’, The Australian Financial Review, 12-14 December, 2003, p L6

External links

www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au

www.artsy.net/charles-nodrum-gallery

Charles Nodrum: Appreciates Abstraction, Art Collector

Charles Nodrum Gallery celebrates 30 years, Art Almanac

George Johnson, 30 Years with this gallery, Art Collector