DOUGLAS CHAMBERS

THEN and NOW : Recent Paintings

Galerie Düsseldorf

18 April - 9 May 2004

This Exhibition has two main themes. Then, as a child, I experienced the devastation of London, during the bombing Blitz. Now, as a mature adult I have had the very different experience of living in Western Australia. This has allowed me to look at my past and revisit and restate some stylistic directions, but the visual impact of the work is always the main concern. Douglas Chambers November 2004 Born east end of London 1935. Phoney War - evacuated to Weymouth Returned to London. Brothers evacuated and I remain with parents during Blitz, sleeping in underground stations. Evacuated to Oxford. Father's business bombed. Returned to outer London. Evacuated again to Hereford, Wey Valley. Returned to London. Church adjacent to Primary School destroyed by V2 Buzz Bomb. Evacuated again to Norfolk. Returned to London, Woodford Essex. Local School and adjacent Church struck by V2 rockets using incendiary bombs which destroyed part of our house and car. War ends. VE (Victory Europe) and VJ (Victory japan) celebrations. Part of a letter from my brother: "It seems odd now to recall standing on the front porch. Morrison shelter in the dining room (this was a steel box the family lived in during air-raid. Watching the German planes caught in search lights, flourescent shells being fired at them and fighters zooming over towards the Thames. The house as hit by incendiary bombs, parachuted down. Dad had to push a blazing car out of the garage, all part of home guard duties" Douglas Chambers 2004 After gaining a National Diploma in Design, Douglas Chambers served his obligatory two years national service before attending The Royal College of Art in London from 1959-61, alongside Ron Kitaj, David Hockney, Peter Phillips and Allen Jones. In 1963 he took up a teaching post in Jamaica where he lived for seven years before arriving in Perth in 1970 to teach in Art and Design at The Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University). A survey exhibition of his work was held at The Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1991. In 2004 he will be a visiting Scholar at The University of Tasmania, Launceston.

View Artist's Biographical information updated 2004 View Installation Images View Exhibition Catalogue and Work from : New Paintings and Constructions : 2 - 23 April 2000 View Exhibition Catalogue and Paintings : Recent Paintings : 12 July - 2 August 1998

Read Exhibition Review by Simon Blond The West Australian 1 May 2004

Read Interview with Ron Banks The West Australian

1

Then and Now 2003
Oil + Collage on Board
125 x 120 cm
$ 5,000

2

3

Evacuation - Country Life I 2003
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 138 cm
$ 4,500

4

Evacuation - Child’s Night 2003
Acrylic, Oil + Collage on Canvas
112 x 120 cm
$ 4,000

5

Evacuation - Red Plane 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
110 x 110 cm
$ 4,000

6

Evacuation - Country Life II 2004
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
76 x 112 cm
$ 3,000

7

Evacuation - End of Summer 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
127 x 127 cm
$ 5,000

8

English Man 2003
Oil + Acrylic on Canvas
127 x 127 cm
$ 5,000 (Acquired Private Collection)

9

10

Blue Birds Over 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
110 x 110 cm
$ 4,000

11

London I 2004
Oil + Collage on Canvas
127 x 112 cm
$ 4,000

12

White Cliffs of Dover 2004
Oil on Canvas
112 x 127 cm
$ 4,000

13

Parachute 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
102 x 76 cm
$ 2,500

14

Bombs I 2004
Oil + Collage on Board
48 x 64 cm
$ 2,200

15

Bomber I 2002
Oil on Canvas
63 x 59 cm
$ 1,500

16

17

Twilight 2000
Oil + Collage on Canvas
61 x 46 cm
$ 1,500

18

Changing Times 2001
Oil + Collage on Canvas
Triptych each panel 25 x 30 cm
$ 1,500

19

The Spring 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
93 x 96 cm
$ 3,000

20

Art School I 2003
Oil + Collage on Board
40 x 30 cm
$ 950

21

Art School II 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
40 x 30 cm
$ 950

22

Art School III 2003
Acrylic + Collage on Canvas
84 x 46 cm
$ 2,000

23

24

Returning Flight 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
25 x 31
$ 900

25

Raining Bombs 2003
Oil + Collage on Board
40 x 31 cm
$ 900

26

Fighters and Prey 2004
Oil + Collage on Board
25 x 32 cm
$ 800

 

27

Bombers 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
20 x 15 cm
$ 450

28

29

Target 2003
Oil + Collage on Board
11 x 13 cm
$ 450

30

Night Raid 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
12 x 17 cm
$ 450

31

Bombers 2003
Oil + Collage on Board on wood
13 x 17.5 cm
$ 450

32

Encircled 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
31 x 41 cm
$ 950 (Acquired)

33

Bomber 2003
Acrylic + Collage on Board
10 x 10 cm
$ 300

34

Night Fighter 2003
Oil + Collage on Board
17.5 x 13 cm
$ 450

35

Between Targets 2003
Acrylic + Collage on Board
10 x 6 cm
$ 400

36

Flying Over 2002/04
Oil + Collage - 4 Units
8.5 x 7.5, 7.5 x 5, 7.5 x 4.5, 6 x 5.5 cm
$ 450

37

Returning 2003
Oil on Canvas
10 x 15 cm
$ 450

38

Fighters 2003
Oil on Canvas
20 x 25 cm
$ 700

39

Fighter 2003
Oil + Collage on Board
15 x 18 cm
$ 450

 

40

Fighters 2003
Oil + Collage on Board
10 x 13 cm
$ 400

41

Bomb 2003
Oil + Collage on Board
19 x 15 cm
$ 450

42

Bombs 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
12 x 17 cm
$ 450

43

Country Life, England 2003
Oil + Collage on Wood
25 x 22 cm
$ 900 (Acquired Private Collection)

44

Cornfield 2003
Oil on Wooden Blocks
8 x 15 cm
$ 450

45

Dog of London 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
15 x 11 cm
$ 450

46

Dog of London II 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
17 x 10 cm
$ 450 (Acquired Private Collection)

47

London 2003
Oil + Collage on Canvas
Triptych each panel 15 x 11 cm
$ 950

48

Time in the Country 2001
Oil + Collage on Card
7 Panels each 10 x 15 cm
$ 1,200

49

Hereford Wheat 2001
Oil + Collage on Board
10.5 x 10.5 cm
$ 500

50

Wye Valley 2001
Oil + Collage on Board
8.5 x 10 cm
$ 500

51

Aerodrome 2002
Oil + Collage on Wooden Blocks
18 x 30 x 4 cm
$ 850

52

Sea Wall 2003
Oil + Collage 9 Units
Approx. 12.5 x 30 x 2 cm
$ 850