REMINDER: this Saturday afternoon @ The Depot Gallery, Sydney

Rupert Betheras

Old Sydney Road

new paintings

featuring ceramic works by Anne Betheras

OPENING EVENT AND MEET THE ARTIST:

Date: Saturday 16th October 2010
Time: 2 - 4pm
Place: The Depot Gallery, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo, Sydney

To RSVP please call the gallery on 03 9418 6444 or email us at rsvp@alcastongallery.com.au

The exhibition is online! To view artworks and details, click here to go to the Alcaston Gallery website.

Exhibition dates: Tuesday 12th October – Sunday 24th October 2010


It is with great excitement that Alcaston Gallery presents new paintings by Rupert Betheras in his third solo exhibition.

Rupert Betheras’ style is fast, furious and intensely focused, with a passion for life and art; this passion and focus emanates from his work. He had the benefits of fostering his early creative pursuits, which was the art of mark making, joining his brothers in pursuing street art. His attentions were to be captured by a burgeoning graffiti art scene in Melbourne during the 1980s and the concept of making marks on surface; an action both primal and direct.

He was also very fortunate that his family’s interests lay with the creative arts; his mother, Anne Betheras, is a gifted ceramicist and we are delighted to showcase four of her unique hand-formed clay pieces, together with her son’s paintings.

It is clear that creativity flows through the Betheras family; we are thrilled to see Rupert Betheras powerfully emerge on to the Australian contemporary art scene, and pay tribute to Anne Betheras in the creative process.

This exhibition’s new body of work salutes the development of colour, place and an innate desire to capture the passion and energy through painting. Old Sydney Road refers to the location of his studio near Broadford in country Victoria. Works in the show were also created in Alice Springs, NT and in coastal hideaways on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne.

Yours Sincerely



Beverly Knight