Above: Poor Pane | Acrylic on canvas |

910 x 1220mm | $5,650

Below: West Papuan Painting | Acrylic on

canvas | 1220 x 1820mm | $7,000

Touching Base 1-31 March

Stephen Buntrock studied painting at the

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,

finishing his Diploma of Fine Art in 1969.

He has worked as a visual artist in many

areas: television, film & theatrical sets and

props, graphic design and book illustration

and also worked as an art educator at

secondary, adult and university levels.

His main interest lies in the development of

his personal visual language, in

printmaking, works on paper and large

scale works on canvas. As a teacher, his

mission is to help students find their own

visual language.

About the show

Stephen Buntrock's exciting collection of

paintings work on many levels , layering

meaning as well as imagery, mixing up

ancient themes and pop-art, combining

sensitively drawn and beautifully rendered

human figures with abstract shapes and

vibrant colours - failing to comply with

convention even in the arrangement of his

large, assymetrical multi-panelled works.

The influence of Stephen’s years of living

and working in Papua New Guinea is

strongly felt.

Stephen

Buntrock

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Board Game with Buddha and Barbed Wire | Acrylic on canvas | 1880 x 2885mm | $13,000

Three Breath Dance V | Acrylic on canvas | 1500 x 2740mm | $10,600 Jazz Persons – Sarah | Acrylic on linen | 610

x 610mm |$1,650

Jazz Persons – Art | Acrylic on linen | 610

x 610mm | $1,650

Jazz Persons – all acrylic on canvas

| 510 x 510mm | $1250

Top: Monk

Centre: Trane

Bottom: Bird

Above: Bad Joke with

Curtains | Acrylic on

canvas | 1650 x

2760mm | $10,800

Below: Loverinth |

Acrylic on canvas |

1520 x 2800mm |

$10,600

Top: Angi with Kickboxers | Acrylic on Arches

paper 680 gms | Framed | 1560 x 2140mm | $7,900

Below: Paul with Kickboxers | Acrylic on Arches paper 680 gms | Framed | 1560 x 2140mm | $7,900

Above: Scattered Thoughts – Breaking Up is Hard to Do | Acrylic on canvas

| Overall 1730 x 3050mm | $10,600

Below Right: Beach Scene with Strange Encounter | Acrylic on canvas | 1220

x 1200mm | $6,000

STEPHEN BUNTROCK, also known as KAIWE Kaiwe began drawing and painting the people of Papua New guinea after living and working in the Highland provinces for most of the 1970s. Stephen Kaiwe Productions was established in the 1980s operating out of a private gallery in Mt. Hagen, WHP. From there many exhibitions were held throughout PNG. More than 700 paintings and sketches went to collections throughout the world, including the Royal Collection U.K. During the 1990s, Kaiwe, as Stephen Buntrock, lectured in painting, drawing and cultural studies at the Faculty of Creative Arts University of Papua New Guinea.