‘Howard Arkley’, Bellas, Brisbane, May-June 1994
‘Howard Arkley: “Black and White Paintings” and Works on Paper’, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, 24 May-11 June 1994
The invitation – reproduced here – is preserved in the artist’s archive.
No check-list appears to have survived (thanks to Hamish Sawyer of Milani Gallery, Brisbane, for checking on this, Nov./Dec.2008), and it remains uncertain how many Arkley canvases were included. However, Alison Burton has forwarded a copy she made at the time, listing all the works of paper exhibited (see below).
Many of these works were also listed in Arkley’s 1993-6 stock-book, as with Bellas in 1994, as marked # in the lists below.
Works on canvas shown probably included the following:
- Corner House 1994: possibly but not certainly in this exhibition (not listed in Arkley’s stock-book under 1994)
- Grace with Space 1994 # (now P/C Melb.; exh.Gould Melb.3/02)
- Icon Head (1994) # (recorded in 1993-6 stock-book as ‘Icon Impersonation’); now part of Icon Interior 1994-2001 [3/M] (Howard Arkley/Juan Davila)
- Suburban Allegory (1994?) # unidentified; but possibly = Untitled [‘Man Looking onto Cityscape’] (1994?)
- Tudor Village B/W (1994) # (listed in stock-book as ‘Tudor Village’); still in the artist’s collection at his death
- Two Gizmos (1994?) # unidentified; compare Ketoacidosis and Head (1995) [W/P], as shown in HA Tolarno 9/95
20 works on paper were shown, as follows – details via list in Alison Burton’s hand-writing. As she recalls, they were all monochrome, or largely so (correspondence, Dec.2014). Most of them seem to have measured approximately 76 x 56 cm. Although a number of these works remain unidentified, several may be identical with works shown under different titles in Arkley’s ‘White + Black’ show at Tolarno, Sept.1995.
- Ancestral Fronds (1994) [W/P] # unidentified
- As New (1994) [W/P] # (Artbank collection, purchased 1994)
- Brand New Villa # (listed in HA’s stock-book as a work on canvas, but that appears to be an error); almost certainly = Home Enclosed by Fence 1995 [W/P] (listed thus in the 1993-6 stock-book for 1995); later exh.Gould Melb.3/99
- Demo Space 1994 [W/P] # (Artbank collection, purchased 1994)
- Disco Cacti B/W (1994) [W/P] # unidentified
- Domestic Horticulture (1994) [W/P] # unidentified
- Face of an Icon (1994) [W/P] # unidentified; also exh. Bett Gallery, Hobart, 8/94
- Hooliganism (1994) [W/P] # unidentified
- Idiot Vision (1994) [W/P] # unidentified
- Illogical Graft (1994) [W/P] # unidentified
- Mask for Baudelaire (1994) [W/P] # (also exh.Bett Gallery, Hobart, 8/94; presumably identical with work shown in HA Tolarno 9/95 as ‘Head Baudelaire’, and then at John Buckley Gallery 5/07, as ‘Head of Baudelaire’)
- Picasso Head (1994) [W/P] # (later given to present owner, one of Arkley’s relatives)
- Shadow Factory B/W 1994 [W/P] # (work auctioned in August 2001)
- Strange Fruit B/W (1994) [W/P] # unidentified; also exh.Bett Gallery, Hobart, 8/94, and Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 11/95-1/96
- Tudor Village (1994) [W/P] # (listed in HA’s stock-book as ‘sold by Dick Bett’); also exh.Bett Gallery, Hobart, 8/94
- Twin Propogation (1994) [W/P] #; also exh.Bett Gallery, Hobart, 8/94; artist’s coll.; P/C Melb.
- Twin Propogation no.2 (1994) [W/P] # unidentified
- Walking Abstract (1994) [W/P] # unidentified; also exh.Bett Gallery, Hobart, 8/94
- Wigginsia (1994) [W/P] # unidentified
- Zappo Head for 1994 # = Zappo Head B/W 1994 [W/P] (later given to present owner, another one of Arkley’s relatives; NB this work is slightly larger: 82 x 63)