James Smeaton

Exhibitions

Artist Exhibition 1185

Summer Exhibition

Scott Livesey Galleries, 01/12/2023 to 23/12/2023

“Summer Exhibition”A rotating Group ExhibitionON VIEW NOW610 High Street, Prahranand OFFSITE at Compendium Gallery(909a High Street, Armadale)Please contact the gallery for further information... Read More >

Artist Exhibition 1175

Summer 2022-23

Scott Livesey Galleries, 13/12/2022 to 21/12/2022

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Artist Exhibition 1165

Love Letter

Scott Livesey Galleries, 23/04/2022 to 14/05/2022

From a fog of international and state border closures, lockdown restrictions, five-kilometre radiuses, and separation from loved ones appeared a group of paintings that spoke of magic. This was a place where black and white created colour. I found it shocking that from the depths of winter arose works of such joyous sublimation. Suddenly alive was a sway, a yearning, a realm of perfumed shadows, warm winds, ocean birds soaring, pelagic currents, a mysterious littoral, low hanging moons, the sun, breaking dawns, dreams and dreamers, earthquakes and a land alive. It seemed these paintings were love letters to a place, a time, to so... Read More >

Artist Exhibition 1158

Twenty One

Scott Livesey Galleries, 15/07/2021 to 21/08/2021

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Artist Exhibition 1156

Autumn Selection

Scott Livesey Galleries, 14/04/2021 to 08/05/2021

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Artist Exhibition 1146

WINTER SALON 2020

Scott Livesey Galleries, 04/07/2020 to 22/08/2020

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Artist Exhibition 1129

CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION

Scott Livesey Galleries, 14/12/2018 to 22/12/2018

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Artist Exhibition 1118

WINTER SALON 2018

Scott Livesey Galleries, 16/06/2018 to 21/07/2018

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Artist Exhibition 1114

The Wallace Line

Scott Livesey Galleries, 19/04/2018 to 12/05/2018

James SmeatonHeadland is the title James Smeaton has given to a large composition that features prominently in a recent series of otherwise untitled, though lusciously painted acrylic on canvas works. To describe these paintings as abstract would be to ignore the figurative, aquatic and terrestrial motifs that emerge from this haptic and gestural mode of painting. Headland is a notable case in point, for it features a centralised mass that is both geographical headland surrounded by turbulent waters, and what may easily be read as the artist’s own head in repose. Possibly the subject is rising from beneath the waves in a determine... Read More >

Artist Exhibition 1100

WINTER SALON

Scott Livesey Galleries, 22/07/2017 to 12/08/2017

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Artist Exhibition 1093

SUMMER SALON

Scott Livesey Galleries, 14/12/2016 to

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Artist Exhibition 1082

From the Stockroom

Scott Livesey Galleries, 06/04/2016 to 30/04/2016

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Artist Exhibition 1076

Summer Salon

Scott Livesey Galleries, 19/12/2015 to 19/01/2016

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Artist Exhibition 1070

The Salon

Scott Livesey Galleries, 13/06/2015 to 25/07/2015

'The Salon'This unique exhibition will showcase a large and diverse collection of artworks and artefacts by artists that we represent, private collectors and works in stock and will rotate throughout June/July.Please note that the website will continue to be up-dated over the next few days.'The Salon' will be on view between 13 June to 25 July 2015... Read More >

Artist Exhibition 1069

Sweeping Water

Scott Livesey Galleries, 09/05/2015 to 30/05/2015

JAMES SMEATON: SUBMERGING ARTIST... James Smeaton has been painting consistently now for more than three decades… The aqueous and Zen-like title Sweeping Water is well matched to these canvases, for they contain sweeping ‘one stroke’ brush marks that conjure the vigorous dynamics of the seas…Despite the crisp delineations, the paintings have been created through a series of complex and indeed haptic layers of acrylic. In many of Smeaton’s canvases a dark impasto layer is buried like sediment beneath a sun-bleached topcoat of seductive pale pink or blue. Once these veneers have dried the artist sets to work, excavating wi... Read More >

Artist Exhibition 1058

TWENTY FOURTEEN

Scott Livesey Galleries, 23/08/2014 to 26/09/2014

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Artist Exhibition 1044

Summer 2013

Scott Livesey Galleries, 16/12/2013 to 23/12/2013

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Artist Exhibition 1008

Ceremony

Scott Livesey Galleries, 06/03/2013 to 28/03/2013

James Smeaton’s highly charged ink works on paper literally and metaphorically leave the West in their wake.The connection to the sea which infuses so much of his work is still there but gone are the obvious references to empty vessels, maritime flags and structures, colonial mapping and the journeys of ancient seafarers as they made their way by stealth across the seas. Smeaton substitutes this knowledge and passion for the distinct island cultures of Java, Bali, Lombok and Sumba. These are places he now knows intimately through regular residencies and has been immersed in the colour and diversity of Indonesian art and culture.Of... Read More >

Artist Exhibition 1026

Voyage

Scott Livesey Galleries, 06/04/2011 to 30/04/2011

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Artist Exhibition 1054

The Red Sea / Birds of Devilbend

Scott Livesey Galleries, 29/04/2009 to 27/05/2009

James SmeatonThe Red SeaAs great as an ocean, and as rude, within.― Charles Cotton, The Tempest, 1869The drama of painting is enacted … in flatness against depth, skin wrapping the body, bones and pearls, rich and strange, at the thresholds of abstraction and narrative, but neither one or the other.The title of Full Fathom Five unites Shakespeare and Jackson Pollock, in a tempestuous maritime key. In The Song of the Sea Solomon’s columns are cast in both concrete and poetic form. Pier and Ocean invokes Mondrian, lurking in the background, extending beyond the frame, but rendered in an antiquated archival register. Blurry, blac... Read More >

Artwork 8042
James Smeaton
Love Letter

2020

acrylic on canvas

180.00 x 240.00 cm (overall, diptych)

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Artwork 7469
James Smeaton
Mountain

acrylic on canvas

180.00 x 242.00 cm (overall, diptych)

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Artwork 7075
James Smeaton
Untitled 2 (The Wallace Line)

2016

acrylic on canvas

130.00 x 120.00 cm

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Artwork 7073
James Smeaton
Headland (The Wallace Line)

2016

acrylic on canvas

160.00 x 180.00 cm

$22,000.00

Artwork 6735
James Smeaton
Frame

acrylic on canvas

167.50 x 198.00 cm

$18,000.00

Artwork 6303
James Smeaton
Fairweather's Raft

2015

acrylic on canvas

120.00 x 100.00 cm

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Artwork 6524
James Smeaton
Fairweather's Raft No.2

2015

acrylic on canvas

120.00 x 100.00 cm

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Artwork 5913
James Smeaton
Maelstrom

2015

acrylic on canvas

180.00 x 120.00 cm

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Artwork 5501
James Smeaton
Ceremony

2013

ink on paper

100.00 x 70.00 cm (each)

installation image



Artwork 5206
James Smeaton
Waterwitch 1854

2010

ink on paper

76.00 x 56.00 cm

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Artwork 5201
James Smeaton
Sisters 1865

2010

ink on paper

76.00 x 56.00 cm

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Artwork 5199
James Smeaton
Mystery 1850

2010

ink on paper

76.00 x 56.00 cm

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Artwork 5196
James Smeaton
Hope 1827

2010

ink on paper

76.00 x 56.00 cm

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Artwork 5186
James Smeaton
Voyage

2010

acrylic on linen

120.00 x 240.00 cm

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Artwork 5184
James Smeaton
Cave

2010

acrylic on linen

109.00 x 109.00 cm

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