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Artist: John RWalker Title: Ian's Hill Date: 2005 Medium: gouache on paper Dimensions:55 x 85cm Reserve price: $800 Artist:J RWalker Title: Tallaganda gully Date: 2005 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions:100 x 85cm Reserve price: $1500 JOHN R WALKER Born in Sydney and now a Braidwood resident, John R Walker, a four times Archibald finalist, is a professionally practising artist who has exhibited regularly for more than 25 years, both nationally and internationally. Utopia Art Sydney has represented his work since 1989 and he has had a number of solo exhibitions in the USA. Over the past eight years, Walker's work has increasingly focussed upon painting signs for the experience of walking in the landscape. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia (currently in the watercolour show, Moist), most major state and regional gallery collections and in private collections in Australia, UK and the USA. His most recent solo exhibition will be on show at Utopia Art Sydney from 22 October until 16 November, 2005.

Artist: Euan MacLeod Title: (Summit) Road Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 40 x 50 cm Date: 2004 Reserve price: $1,000 Bio: 1999 Archibald winner and 2001 Sulman Prize winner, Euan MacLeod is a major Australian artist known for his beautiful 'figure in the landscape' works of a sublime and tragic quality. His work is in most major private and public collections. MacLeod, Robba and Walker often paint as a group, en plein air. MacLeod is represented by major galleries in Australia and New Zealand, including Watters Gallery in Sydney and Niagara in Melbourne.

Artist: Leo Robba Title: Five, Braidwood Medium: acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 40 x 50 cm Date: 2004 Reserve price: $1,000 Bio: Born in Brisbane in 1962, Leo Robba is an artist whose landscapes, both urban and rural, explore a sense of place. Robba's paintings objectify and create a sense of nobleness that belongs to a long tradition. This nobleness is not built on some grand notion but the daily lives of the wonderfully ordinary and our tentative relationship to nature. This work was painted 18 months ago when he and MacLeod visited Walker to go on a painting trip in the landscape around Braidwood. It is the line of five Cyprus pines which define the boundary of Ian Wright's house, Walker's neighbour in Elrington Street. Robba is represented by Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney.

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn was born in Laos in 1971 and came to Australia in 1979. She began painting in 1991, while still in her second year at art school. Since graduating, she has exhibited widely and has been included in important survey shows of Australian art, including "Spirit and Place: Art in Australia 1861-1996" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and "Uncommon worlds: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art" at the National gallery of Australia. Courtesy of Martin Browne Fine Art "Bpao" 2005 colour etching, edition of 15, 34cmx28cm, Printed by Viridian Press, Melbourne and Canberra. Reserve price $500

Artist: Helen Geier Title: Cottage Blind I Date: 2001 Medium: drawing of mixed media with silk thread overlay sewn on paper (handmade) Dimensions: 60 x 50 cm Photography: Georgina Smith Reserve price: $250 Biography: Helen Geier lives and works in Braidwood. For many years she has been involved in an artistic exploration of issues of space, cross cultural assumptions and history. Layering materials, patterns and geometry, Helen's imagery is built up from a diverse range of visual resources including the local natural and built environment. Cottage Blind I is one of a pair of drawings with sewn elements based on the farm environs at "Lisdaleen", and pays homage to the cottage crafts of the first farm there. Helen exhibits her work nationally and internationally and has wors in natoinal, state and regional galleries and numerous private collections.

Tulu rug from Karapinar in central Turkey (handspun wool and handknotted oriental carpet) Size: 156 x 107 cm The term tulu means 'unshorn' and is generally applied to these longer piled rugs from central and eastern Anatolia with minimal or no design motifs. This Piece is from Karapinar in Cappadocia, central Anatolia (old Asia Minor). This is the area into which the turkmen nomads migrated and settled during the 10th and 11th centuries. There are still yurts (the turkmen circular felt tent) to be seen in the region and most have been given status as national heritage items. Karapinar is also at the centre of what is known as the 'yoruk triangle'. The yoruk are the mountain nomads of mixed ethnic origins scattered throughout Anatolia. Some pieces, like this one, are knotted using the conventional symmetrical or Turkish knot, others use a kind of looped pile. reserve $400 www.nomadicrugtraders.com

1980  Grange Hermitage one of the great years reserve $450 many thanks to phill

Olivier Bernadoff size medium oil on canvas Olivier Bernadoff has been painting since 1985 . Her work focuses upon the everyday, the pedestrian and ordinary; be it wine glasses , cigarrette lighters or as in this case, the grid of freeways crossing a dark city and makes, out of this quotidian ordinaryness, art of great poetry. reserve $1500

Peter Crisp

Indian handpainted, double bed, calico throw Reserve Price: $150 A graduate of modern languages and sociology from Cambridge University, Asha Sarabhai returned to India and realised that the rich textile and craft traditions were quickly disappearing. She felt indignant about the way skilled craftsmen were being turned into mass producers. Her concern led her to start workshops in the compound of her husband's family in Ahmedabad. She now employs and cares for over a hundred craftsmen and their families. Her vegetable dyeing, handblock printing, hand and machine sewing produce unique household textiles and clothing of exquisite simplicity.

Newly whispered Berlang Brumby Age: Details: Reserve Price: $400 Bio: A magnificent specimen, this newly whispered Berlang Brumby is a descendant of a number of superb racehorses that were released into wild over 120 years ago by the O'Hare family. Some of these include Sir Don, Sir Grundy, Midstream and Star Pilot and bred from this fine stock was the magnificent local, Berlang Boy. The present owner of the property is a descendant of the original breeder of Archer, a fine local stallion, and winner of the 1st Melbourne Cup. there are 5 horses to chose from stallion mares and ponies

the watercolour

Artist: julie harris Title: head of a girl Date: 2005 Medium: ink on paper Dimensions: 15cm x 15cm Reserve price: $350