John Nixon

Painting and sculpture

John Nixon's third solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.

Exhibition Dates: 28 October – 15 November 1986

It is Simple

From 1968 on, Nixon's art, which is strongly self-referential, 'abstract', opposition and romantic points to an art which harks back ideologically to the spiritual, revolutionary and psychological fervour of another era - that of Constructivism as well as to Arte Povera, Minimalism and Conceptualism.

Life Blood

The drama, the catharsis is always present in Nixon's work - unrepenting thirst for freedom, autonomous expression and a longing for truth and purity expressed through the simplest emblem like forms - paintings, etchings, drawings, sculpture and monuments - using the cross, the rectangle, the circle, the square, the oval, the vertical and everyday objects from the world of culture, labor and nature.

The Long Journey

These 'self portraits', these 'culture of materials' - they are simple and forthright works - a journey dealing with the 'Abstract' and the 'Real'.

John Barlycorn. 17.10.85. Melbourne.

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Akademic Painting (1986), 1984-86
enamel and acrylic

Self Portrait (Non Objective Composition), 1984-86
enamel and acrylic

Self Portrait (Non Objective Composition), 1984-86
enamel and acrylic

Self Portrait (Non-Objective Composition), 1985
acrylic, oil, canvas board, felt, cardboard, masonite
81.5 x 46.5 cm

Self Portrait (Non Objective Composition), 1984-86
enamel and acrylic

Self Portrait (Non Objective Composition), 1984-86
enamel and acrylic

Akademic Painting (1986), 1984-86
enamel and acrylic

Akademic Painting (1986), 1984-86
enamel and acrylic

Self Portrait (Non Objective Composition), 1984-86
enamel and acrylic

Self Portrait (New Objective Composition), 1984-86
enamel and acrylic

Self Portrait (Non Objective Composition), 1984-86
enamel and acrylic

Self Portrait (Non-Objective Composition) Akademic Painting, 1986
enamel on masonite
91 x 61 cm

Akademic Painting, 1984-86
enamel and acrylic

Self Portrait (7 Monuments), 1984-86
wood and readymade objects

Self Portrait (Monument), 1984-86
wood and readymade objects

Self Portrait (Monument), 1984-86
wood and readymade objects

Self Portrait (Monument), 1984-86
wood and readymade objects

Self Portrait (Monument), 1984-86
wood and readymade objects

Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1992

John Nixon
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1992

Group Show, Christmas show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1991

John Nixon Experimental painting and object workshop
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1991

Group Show, The 1980–1990 show, A Selection of Work from our Stockroom
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1990-91

Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1990

John Nixon
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1990

Group Show, The Cocktail Party (All Gallery Artists)
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1988

John Nixon Twenty years of monochrome painting
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1988

Group Show, 7th Biennale of Sydney
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1988

John Nixon
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1987

John Nixon Painting and sculpture
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1986

Group Show, The Forbidden Object
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1986

John Nixon Self portrait (non-objective composition)
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1985

Group Show, Australian Visions
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1984

Group Show, Dreams and Nightmares
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1984

Group Show, D'un autre continent: l'Australie, le reve et le reel (From another continent : Australia, the dream and the real)
Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1983

John Nixon
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1983