Works
  • Michaye Boulter, A Sense of Departure, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    A Sense of Departure, 2020
    oil on board
    35.5 x 28 cm, 36.5 x 29 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, And of Memory and Going Back, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    And of Memory and Going Back, 2020
    oil on hand-beaten steel
    42 x 29 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Becalm, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Becalm, 2020
    oil on hand-beaten steel
    57 x 62 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Beliefs, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Beliefs, 2020
    oil on blackwood
    9 x 9.5 x 3 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Brilliant Darkness, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Brilliant Darkness, 2020
    oil on linen
    122 x 153 cm, 125 x 156 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, By Night, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    By Night, 2020
    oil on linen
    153 x 183 cm, 156 x 186 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Disappearing, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Disappearing, 2020
    oil on hand-beaten steel
    72 x 89 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Edging Toward, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Edging Toward, 2020
    oil on hand-beaten steel
    39 x 56 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Embedded Darkness, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Embedded Darkness, 2020
    oil on linen
    92 x 112 cm, 95 x 115 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Endeavour, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Endeavour, 2020
    oil on hand-beaten steel
    60 x 65 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Far Becoming Further Still, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Far Becoming Further Still, 2020
    oil on linen
    153 x 122 cm, 156 x 125 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Gather, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Gather, 2020
    oil on board
    35.5 x 28 cm, 36.5 x 29 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Hidden Silence, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Hidden Silence, 2020
    oil on linen
    92 x 112 cm, 95 x 115 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Holding, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Holding, 2020
    oil on blackwood
    6 x 7.5 x 3.5 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Keeping, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Keeping, 2020
    oil on blackwood
    7 x 11 x 4 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Liminal, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Liminal, 2020
    oil on linen
    153 x 122 cm, 156 x 125 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Lost, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Lost, 2020
    oil on board
    28 x 35.5 cm, 29 x 36.5 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Mystify, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Mystify, 2020
    oil on hand-beaten steel
    36 x 44 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Ode, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Ode, 2020
    oil on hand-beaten steel
    30 x 25 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Other Than Memory, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Other Than Memory, 2020
    oil on hand-beaten steel
    29 x 42 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Recede, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Recede, 2020
    oil on board
    56.7 x 45.7 cm, 60 x 49 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Reconnect, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Reconnect, 2020
    oil on board
    28 x 35.5 cm, 29 x 36.5 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Reflective, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Reflective, 2020
    oil on board
    56.7 x 45.7 cm, 60 x 49 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Reinvent, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Reinvent, 2020
    oil on board
    35.5 x 28 cm, 36.5 x 29 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Relic, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Relic, 2020
    oil on hand-beaten steel
    16 x 21 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Rising, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Rising, 2020
    oil on board
    28 x 35.5 cm, 29 x 36.5 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Secrecy, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Secrecy, 2020
    oil on board
    56.7 x 45.7 cm, 60 x 49 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Secret, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Secret, 2020
    oil on blackwood
    6 x 7.5 x 3 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Shaded Memory, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Shaded Memory, 2020
    oil on linen
    153 x 183 cm, 156 x 186 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Their Beginning, Time and Place, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Their Beginning, Time and Place, 2020
    oil on linen
    92 x 112 cm, 95 x 115 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Thinness of Being, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Thinness of Being, 2020
    oil on linen
    153 x 183 cm, 156 x 186 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Towards Elsewhere, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Towards Elsewhere, 2020
    oil on linen
    153 x 183 cm, 156 x 186 cm (framed)
  • Michaye Boulter, Treasured, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Treasured, 2020
    oil on blackwood
    7 x 7 x 3 cm
  • Michaye Boulter, Untamed, 2020
    Michaye Boulter
    Untamed, 2020
    oil on hand-beaten steel
    44 x 56 cm
  • Jon Eiseman, Adrift in the Southern Ocean, 2020
    Jon Eiseman
    Adrift in the Southern Ocean, 2020
    unique bronze
    50 x 50 x 28 cm
  • Jon Eiseman, After the Storm, 2020
    Jon Eiseman
    After the Storm, 2020
    bronze
    77 x 33 x 25 cm
    Edition of 6
  • Jon Eiseman, Angels, 2020
    Jon Eiseman
    Angels, 2020
    unique bronze
    23.5 x 14 x 11.5 cm
  • Jon Eiseman, Castaway, 2020
    Jon Eiseman
    Castaway, 2020
    unique bronze
    48 x 26 x 21 cm
  • Jon Eiseman, Dancing Till the End of Time, 2020
    Jon Eiseman
    Dancing Till the End of Time, 2020
    unique bronze
    45 x 36 x 20 cm
  • Jon Eiseman, Dreaming With Fish, 2016
    Jon Eiseman
    Dreaming With Fish, 2016
    unique bronze
    24 x 28 x 14 cm
  • Jon Eiseman, Into the Silent Sea, 2020
    Jon Eiseman
    Into the Silent Sea, 2020
    unique bronze
    44 x 40 x 25 cm
  • Jon Eiseman, Lovers, 2020
    Jon Eiseman
    Lovers, 2020
    unique bronze
    30 x 24 x 14 cm
  • Jon Eiseman, Night Passage, 2020
    Jon Eiseman
    Night Passage, 2020
    unique bronze
    27 x 44 x 24 cm
  • Jon Eiseman, Sanctuary, 2020
    Jon Eiseman
    Sanctuary, 2020
    unique bronze
    68 x 25 x 19 cm
  • Jon Eiseman, The Collector of Lost Memories, 2020
    Jon Eiseman
    The Collector of Lost Memories, 2020
    unique bronze
    67 x 30 x 25 cm
  • Jon Eiseman, The Enigma of Dreams, 2020
    Jon Eiseman
    The Enigma of Dreams, 2020
    unique bronze
    22 x 17 x 12 cm
  • Jon Eiseman, The Quiet Awakening, 2020
    Jon Eiseman
    The Quiet Awakening, 2020
    unique bronze
    43 x 39 x 20 cm
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Exhibition Text

Having spent her life on the sea, Michaye Boulter explores the reciprocity between landscapes and the human psyche. Devoid of human imprint, Boulter’s virginal vistas engage with the traditions of colonial painting to critically question the idea(l) of discovery. These pristine unpeopled scenes appear as revenant visions from a time long ago, precipitating the urgency of environmental conservation. Pulsing through each beguiling seascape is the distant horizon, like a void of receding recollection or emerging consciousness, conjuring a rare unfolding moment of synergy between us and the land. Boulter’s new series explores what is contained in the silence of evening when consciousness loosens and the world becomes a little quieter. ‘They reflect my experience of form dissolving’ says the artist, ‘In the half-light, what sustains and what depletes us? In the darkness, what forgotten aspects of self are restored, reawakened and realised?’. In her brooding compositions, she captures the emotional resonances that emerge in the space between light and dark, subtlety and strength, intimacy and distance.

 

Just as Boulter taps into these existential chasms, Jon Eiseman explores man’s search for meaning in the netherworld between rationality and the subconscious. With a career spanning over three decades, Eiseman has developed a fascinating private mythology that sees solitary figures embark on strange voyages through surreal landscapes, as if distilled directly from a dream. Masterfully cast in bronze, these characters – stand-ins, perhaps, for the artist himself – drift toward the unknown in a vast subconscious sea of possibilities. They are tropes for the future of mankind, as we too drift towards an indistinct horizon. Within Eiseman’s enigmatic iconography of bird masks, suitcases, nests and boats, we catch glimpses of the finite self-striving against the continuum of existence. The tactility and weight of bronze anchors them to the earth or buoys them in ocean, and yet there is the sense that these mystical personae might take flight or sail into oblivion the second you turn away.

 

In the complex merging of opposites – day and night, dreams and reality – Boulter and Eiseman together contemplate the environmental and cultural timbres of the present landscape. A subtle, shadowy consideration in these works is the colonial ingestion of the natural world. In their shared focus on the voyage – personal and historical – both artists look towards the darkness, opening up dialogues about what our journey forward into uncharted waters might look like. Positioning us on the cusp of new beginnings, there is an offering of hope in these psychological landscapes as we confront the nexus at which dark and light meet, where one can take flight towards the light or penetrate deeper into the shadows.

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