Exhibition 17^th September to 12^th October 2008

Copyright  © 2004 Pollock Gallery

Rhonda Goodall - Kirk

“The Greatest Show on Earth”

A small traveling circus from the 1930’s dust bowl era or the dirty thirties; through this subject matter I wish to depict the emotional struggle we all face everyday. In the 1930’s the world was engulfed in poverty and running toward the Second World War. Today the gap between the haves and the have-not’s is bigger and growing, not unlike in the thirties. Homelessness is on the rise and we are stripping the earth bare of it’s natural resources.

Like the clowns and circus performers we all have a face we show to the world and a face we wear in private. Often the faces are poles apart. Pigeon holed, society doesn’t see the man behind the mask.

A selection of the catalogue follows:

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The Singing Clown Oil on canvas 87 x 61 cm
Incubation Oil on canvas 120 x 180 cm
After the Show Oil on canvas 120 x 165 cm
Strange and Savage People Oil on canvas 100 x 130 cm
Amazing Bareback Riders Oil on canvas 165 x 120 cm
Beautiful Graceful Arenic Queen Oil on canvas 100 x 145 cm
Death Defying Acts Oil on canvas 165 x 120 cm
Two Tents and Three Stages Oil on canvas 180 x 120 cm
Divertissement Oil on canvas 120 x 165 cm
Ease and Grace Oil on canvas 200 x 75 cm
Extra Ordinary Oil on canvas 165 x 120 cm
Harlequinade Oil on canvas 165 x 120 cm
Hilarious Novelty Oil on canvas 145 x 90 cm
Linctus Oil on canvas 145 x 110 cm
Into Your Eyes Oil on canvas 180 x 100 cm
Intricate Feats Oil on Canvas 130 x 140 cm
Living Statues Oil on canvas 165 x 120 cm
Pay Day Oil on canvas 145 x 40 cm
Succour Oil on canvas 165 x 100 cm
Mysterious Fortune Oil on canvas 115 x 80 cm
Nothing But The Best Oil on canvas 200 x 75 cm
Off Duty Oil on canvas 100 x 145 cm
The Amazing Tall man Oil on canvas 200 x 75 cm
World’s Smallest man Oil on canvas 180 x 80 cm
Most Strikingly Novel Oil on canvas 180 x 100 cm
Strongman Extraordanaire Oil on canvas 80 x 145 cm
Tattooed Lady Oil on canvas 145 x 80 cm
Pay Day Oil on canvas 145 x 80 cm
Interstice Oil on canvas 115 x 80 cm
Mid…Air Oil on canvas 130 x 100 cm
Incommunicado Oil on canvas 110 x 145 cm
Will Amaze You Oil on canvas 165 x 100 cm
Moratorium Oil on canvas 120 x 200 cm
Pause Oil on canvas 125 x 90 cm
Entertainment Oil on canvas 200 x 80 cm
Smoke Screen Oil on canvas 165 x 140 cm
Parasol Oil on canvas 165 x 100 cm
Spectacular Oil on canvas 180 x 75 cm
Tragicomedy Oil on canvas 165 x 90 cm
The Wonder Show Oil on canvas 100 x 130 cm

RHONDA GOODALL-KIRK

SOLO SHOWS

2007 "Peripateticienne" Pollock Gallery Richmond

2005 Jackman Gallery Melbourne

2003 Jackman Gallery Melbourne

2003 'Our Interim' Span Gallery Melbourne

2000 'Flesh of War Theatre' Roar Studios Fitzroy

1999 'Love, a cigarette and the horse and carriage' Chiara Goya Fitzroy

1999 'Censorship' Roar Studios Fitzroy

1998 'Insensibility' 69 Smith Street Fitzroy

1997 'Life Space in Carrion State -The City' Roar Studios Fitzroy

1996 Oil on Canvas Roar Studios Fitzroy

GROUP SHOWS

2005 Hidden Faces of the of the Archibald, Crown Towers Melbourne

2005 Mosman Art Prize Finalist

2004 Salon des Refuses, Crown Towers Melbourne

2004 “Pet Project”, 69 Smith Street

2004 "Works on Paper" Jackman Gallery Melbourne

2003 "Blue Show" Jackman Gallery Melbourne

2003 The Inaugural Vic Salon des Refuses, The Barn Gallery, Monsalvat

2003 Goya Gallery, Melbourne

2001 Group Show Goya Galleries, Melbourne

2000 Christmas Show, Goya Galleries Melbourne

2000 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery St. Kilda

1999 Christmas Summer Collection, Goya Galleries Melbourne

1999 Penultimate, 69 Smith Street Fitzroy

1999 Roar for Sale, Roar Studios Fitzroy

1999 Mosman Art Show, Mosman Art Gallery Sydney

1999-2000 Group Show-Permanent Exhibit, Chicioâs Cafe St. Kilda

1999 Group Show, Chiara Goya Fitzroy

1999 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery St. Kilda

1998 Primary, 69 Smith Street Fitzroy

1998-1999 Christmas Show, Chiara Goya Fitzroy

1998 Batteries for the Torch Bearer, Gallery High Northcote

1997 Bond, Roar Studios Fitzroy

PUBLICATIONS

Australian Art Collector . January – March 2001 . Issue 15

‘Australia’s most collectable artists’ . Page 124: Bruce James on

Rhonda Goodall: Images from the Front Line.