JOHN TESCHENDORFF

- Drawing -

Galerie Düsseldorf

14 April - 5 May 2002

John Teschendorff was born in Melbourne in 1942 and moved to Perth in 1985. He studied at the Caulfield Institute of Technology (now Monash University), the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the Royal College of Art London. He has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle (NSW), Perth (WA) and Oxford (UK) He has participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions; representing Australia at the 36th Concorso Internazionale della Ceramic D’Arte, Faenza, Italy (1978) and in Contemporary Australian Ceramics at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington USA (1981). In 1995 he was selected for Australian Ceramics 1830-1995 a major survey exhibition presented at the Museo Internazionale della Ceramiche, Faenza Italy. His work is represented in major Australian & international public and institutional collections. Since the early 1980’s Teschendorff has been working with constructed forms and works on paper whilst holding a number of senior academic appointments in Melbourne (Melbourne State College), Perth (Curtin University) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysian Institute of Art & Limkokwing Institute of Technology). John Teschendorff currently lives and works in Fremantle.

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Catalogue of Works

The History of Ideas Series II Fremantle 1999 – 2002.

Drawings from The History of Ideas Series II
(I-X on Arches Paper)

(All works on paper are conservation framed using museum board mounts)


1

Drawing I 1999 (Watercolour/Graphite & Wax) Image Size 29 x 46 cm


2

Drawing II 2000 (Watercolour/Acrylic/Oil/Graphite & Wax) Image Size 29 x 46 cm (Sold)


3

Drawing III 2000 (Conte) Image Size 42 x 46 cm (Sold)


4

Drawing IV 2001 (Oil/Acrylic) Image Size 49 x 67 cm (Sold)


5

Drawing V 2001 (Oil/Acrylic) Image Size 49 x 67 cm (Private Collection)


6

Drawing VI 2001 (Oil/Acrylic/Watercolour/Graphite/Wax) Image Size 44 x 67 cm (Sold)


7

Drawing VII 2001 (Oil/Graphite/Wax) Image Size 42 x 61 cm (Sold)


8

Drawing VIII 2001 (Oil/Graphite/Wax) Image Size 47 x 67 cm (Sold)


9

Drawing IX 2001 (Watercolour/Acrylic/Oil/Graphite/Wax) Image Size 42 x 62 cm (Sold)


10

Drawing X 2001 (Oil/Acrylic/Graphite/Wax) Image Size 42 x 62 cm

 

Terricola I - VI (Latin: earth – dweller) 1999 - 2002:
Observations & meditations on the matter of an Australian landscape
(Pencil/Acrylic/Oil/Graphite & Wax on Canson Paper Each 110 x 75 cm)


11 - 16

 

11

I ‘Peninsular’ 1999 (Sold)


12

II ‘Shaft’ 1999 (Sold)


13

III ‘van Rijn’s Burial Platform’ 2001 (Collection National Gallery of Thailand)


14

IV ‘Arnhem’ 2001/2002


15

V ‘Beach’ 2001 (Collection National Gallery of Thailand)


16

VI ‘Forest’ 2002 (Acquired private Collection)

 

More Drawings from The History of Ideas Series II


17

‘Canto XI’ 2000
Acrylic/Oil/Graphite & Wax on Canvas
(Triptych) 88 x 194 cm (Details of centre panel are shown left and right)
(Acquired BankWest Collection)


18

‘Canto XII 2001
Acrylic/Oil/Graphite & Wax on Canvas
(Triptych) 88 x 193 cm (Details of centre panel are shown left and right)
(Private Collection)


19

‘Kingdom/Power/Glory/Memory’ 2002
Acrylic/Graphite/Plastic Lettering & Wax on Arches Paper
4 panels Each 108 x 106 cm)
(All saints College Collection, Perth)

 


20

‘Some things are not easy to understand’ 2001/2002
Acrylic/Enamel/Wax/Canvas/Wood/Zinc Screws & Wooden Chair
126 x 190 cm (Other dimensions variable)

 

-The assistance of Annette Seeman and Mark Darcey & Peter Lane of Art Presentations is gratefully acknowledged -