CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Jon Eiseman

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Adrift, 2018

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.

Sharing Secrets, 2018

'At the edge of the desert ripples the ocean, which, for Eiseman, echoes our vast subconscious sea of thoughts and dreams. Standing solemnly in boats ill-equipped for a voyage, figures drift toward the unknown, absorbed in contemplations of spirituality, the state of the world and the future of mankind. In these poetic compositions, the trope of the bird alludes to myths and legends about spiritual guides, while the feather and the egg emblematically locate death and life as ever-present companions in our search for meaning. Precarious pilings of figures, birds and objects perched amidst gnarled leafless trees carves a space for ontological questions that cannot be answered. Eiseman considers how as humanity departs from nature, we lose part of our very being in the process.'
Excerpt from essay by Elli Walsh, 2020

Jon Eiseman, Crossing The Border, 2018 (left), Anne Conron, Crossing The Border, 2018 (right)

Sanctuary, 2014 (centre)

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

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.

Anne Conron, Storyteller, 2018 (left)

Eiseman has completed several public, corporate and private commissions throughout Australia. His sculptural work features 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, the Point Leo Sculpture Park in Victoria, Whitehorse Art Collection and in private collections in New Zealand, USA, Asia and Europe.

Anne Conron, After The Rain, 2018 (left), Surveying Lake Heart, 2018 (right)

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

EISEMAN'S PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

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Media Highlights

I See You In My Dreams 2020
unique bronze
53cm x 40cm x 15cm
$13,500 AUD

Lost Dreams 2020
unique bronze
57cm x 46cm x 26cm
$15,000 AUD

New Horizons 2020
unique bronze
38cm x 29cm 11cm
$8,500 AUD

Waiting for the Wind 2020
unique bronze
81cm x 38cm x 25cm
$10,000 AUD

Floating Landscape 2020
unique bronze
41cm x 40cm 20cm
$12,000 AUD

Petrified Landscape 2019
unique bronze
36cm x 28cm x 17cm
$9,500 AUD

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

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

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

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 - 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 - Trespassing 2020
archival cotton rag paper, unframed
56cm x 84cm , edition of 5
$950 AUD

ANNE CONRON - Resurrection Project 2020
archival cotton rag paper, unframed
84cm x 56cm , edition of 5
$950 AUD

ANNE CONRON - After the Rain 2018

100cm x 133cm
Ed of 5, ($2,400 framed)
(IN ARTIST'S STUDIO)
$1,800 AUD

ANNE CONRON - Worship 2020
archival cotton rag paper, unframed
84cm x 56cm , edition of 5
$950 AUD

ANNE CONRON - Listen To My Heartbeat 2020
archival cotton rag paper, unframed
84cm x 56cm , edition of 5
$950 AUD

ANNE CONRON - Seeking Forgiveness 2020
archival cotton rag paper, unframed
84cm x 56cm , edition of 5
$950 AUD

ANNE CONRON - I Give You My Heart 2020
archival cotton rag paper, unframed
84cm x 56cm , edition of 5
$950 AUD

ANNE CONRON - Bush Church 2020
archival cotton rag paper, unframed
56cm x 84cm
$950 AUD

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 - Muster 2020
archival cotton rag paper, unframed
84cm x 56cm , edition of 5
$950 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

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,
$950 AUD