CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Jon Eiseman

REVIEW: Jon Eiseman and Anne Conron's August 2018 exhibition After the Rain reviewed in the Daily Review

Jon Eiseman’s sculptures extends beyond the physical, encompassing notions of time, spirituality and emotion. Cast in bronze his figurative sculptures have a whimsical and poetic quality in which the common man - often represented as a suited figure or solitary head - is fused with iconic symbols of the vessel, fish, bird, tower, tree, flag and ladder to suggest contemplation, humour and internal struggle. Drawn from the shadow world of dream and the inner landscape of the unconscious, his work creates an intriguing open-ended sense of narrative.

'Eiseman’s bronzes express facets of a private mythos developed over a long and successful career. This iconography Eiseman has encapsulated as “the lone figure on a journey through dreamlike landscapes, sometimes with strange companions and sometimes in strange situations”. With this thematic organising principle in mind, the scale of Eiseman’s works takes on a special significant. It is as though through them we are seeing ourselves from above as if we are in the swoon-like state between sleep and wakefulness.'
Excerpt from essay by Simon Caterson, 2018

Jon Eiseman has been a practicing artist since 1985, receiving a Bachelor of Arts Honours [Fine Arts] from Monash University in 1998 and a Master of Fine Arts from Monash University in 2000. In 2014 Eiseman exhibited in the Lorne Sculpture Biennale and in 2013 he was a finalist in the McClelland Small Sculpture Fair. In 2010 he was part of the McClelland Sculpture Survey Exhibition and was also a finalist in the Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, the Deakin University Small Sculpture Award and the Alice Art Prize.

Eiseman's sculptures feature in the permanent collections of The Constable & Hershon Vineyard & Sculpture Garden, Hunter Valley, NSW, La Trobe University Collection, Parliament House, Hobart, Tasmania, Geelong Regional Gallery, Burnie Regional Gallery, and Point Leo Sculpture Park in Victoria and in private collections in New Zealand, USA, Asia and Europe. He has completed several public, corporate and private commissions throughout Australia.

CATALOGUE ESSAYS
After the Rain, by Simon Caterson 2018
Shifting Landscapes, by Melanie Caple 2016
Other Realities, by Marguerite Brown 2014

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Media Highlights

Adrift 2018
Unique Bronze
27cm x 19cm x 16cm
$7,000 AUD

Sharing Secrets 2018
Unique Bronze
39cm x 20cm x 14cm
$8,500 AUD

Waiting for the Rain 2018
Unique Bronze
44cm x 20cm x 16 cm
$9,000 AUD

Guardian Angel 2017
Unique Bronze
34cm x 32cm x 13 cm
$8,500 AUD

After the Rain 2018
Unique Bronze
44cm x 17cm x 16cm
$8,500 AUD

Crossing the Border 2018
Bronze, Ed of 5
33cm x 17cm x 13cm
IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$4,500 AUD

Sanctuary 2014
unique bronze
67cm x 24cm x 18cm
(IN ARTIST'S STUDIO)
$12,500 AUD

Sleepwalker 2013
unique bronze
34cm x 35cm x 33cm
(In Artist's Studio)
$10,500 AUD

ANNE CONRON - Surveying Lake Heart 2018
Type C printed on archival photographic paper
mounted on aluminium composite board (Dibond)
100cm x 67cm
ed of 5, ($1,650 framed)
(IN ARTIST'S STUDIO)
$1,150 AUD

ANNE CONRON - Storyteller 2018
Type C printed on archival photographic paper
mounted on Kappa board
100cm x 67cm (unframed $950)
(IN ARTIST'S STUDIO)
$1,650 AUD

ANNE CONRON - Engineering Lake Heart 2018
Type C printed on archival photographic paper mounted on aluminium composite board (Dibond)
67cm x 100cm
ed of 5, ($1,650 framed)
(IN ARTIST'S STUDIO)
$1,150 AUD

Dreaming of Wings 2012
unique bronze
36cm x 20cm x 11cm
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ANNE CONRON - Dancing in My Dreams 2018
Type C printed on archival photographic paper mounted on aluminium composite board (Dibond)
67cm x 100cm
ed of 5, ($1,650 framed)
IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$1,150 AUD

ANNE CONRON - Little House in the Desert 2018
Type C printed on archival photographic paper mounted on aluminium composite board (Dibond)
67cm x 100cm
Ed of 5, ($1,650 framed)
(IN ARTIST'S STUDIO)
$1,150 AUD

ANNE CONRON - Crossing the Border 2018
Type C printed on archival photographic paper mounted on aluminium composite board (Dibond)
67cm x 100cm
Ed of 5, ($1,650 framed)
IN ARTIST'S STUDIO
$1,150 AUD

ANNE CONRON - After the Rain 2018
Type C printed on archival photographic paper mounted on aluminium composite board (Dibond)
100cm x 133cm
Ed of 5, ($2,400 framed)
(IN ARTIST'S STUDIO)
$1,800 AUD

Waiting for the Future 2016
Type C photograph mounted on aluminium composite board
100cm x 67cm ed of 5,
In collaboration with Anne Conron
(IN ARTIST'S STUDIO)
$1,100 AUD

Lightness Of Being 2014
C-Type photograph, unframed. In collaboration with Anne Conron
100cm x 67cm ed of 5, (framed $1350)
$950 AUD