Aspects of Abstraction: Charles Nodrum Collection

The Town Hall Gallery at Hawthorn Arts Centre presents ‘Aspects of Abstraction: Charles Nodrum Collection’, a major new exhibition. The show is curated from Charles Nodrum’s extensive collection, which is a singular, Melbournian viewpoint for Australian mid-century abstraction across its iterations. With works spanning from the 1950s to the 1990s, the exhibition offers insight into the evolution and diversity of Australian abstraction, surveying the principal movements within the genre, including gestural, colour field, geometric, textural, and symbolic abstraction. Nodrum began collecting in the early 1970s while working at the influential Joseph Brown Gallery and then at the Melbourne office of Christie’s. He opened his own gallery in 1984, the same year the McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art was re-published with updates he contributed. He has since been the leading advocate of mid-century Australian abstraction. Aspect of Abstraction: Charles Nodrum Collection marks the 40th anniversary of the Charles Nodrum Gallery in Richmond and celebrates his unique perspective as a collector, gallerist and contemporary of key figures in Australian abstraction. Featuring: David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Ralph Balson, Mike Brown, Debra Dawes, James Gleeson, George Johnson, Michael Johnson, Roger Kemp, Victor Majzner, Tony McGillick, John Nixon, John Olsen, John Passmore, John Peart, David Rankin, Norma Redpath, Guy Stuart, Edwin Tanner, Aida Tomescu, Peter Upward, and more.