Judge Lynne Seear commented -" this is a a beautifully executed work, from his well-known series of lino paintings. Reynolds has had one of the most consistent careers in contemporary Australian art as a practitioner and educator, and his works are held in major public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery and the Museum of Brisbane. A much earlier work by Bruce Reynolds came into the Gold Coast City Art Gallery Collection via the art prize in 1989 but Certainty represents this senior artist at his painterly best. As befits the medium, it is a modest but intensely evocative work, one that engages the viewer on a human level, but is also intelligently connected to the contested histories of modernism and abstraction."  Reynolds has said about his work - "I'm rather surprised to be still using lino as if it were the natural stuff of pictures...It remains a vehicle offering specific histories and spaces, patterns and pigments for formally integrating the actual and the virtual, the anonymous, the communal, the personal while evoking the archaic and apparently inevitable materialism which has brought us to this point"

Bruce Reynolds was born in Canberra in 1955 and studied at Canberra School of Art and Victorian College of Art. He has lectured in Painting , Photography Intermedia and Interdisciplinary art practices at Queensland College of Art since 1986 and has been an influential teacher for many students at both the Brisbane and Gold Coast campus of QCA. He has been awarded the Australia Council Studio in Los Angeles in 1995 and an Arts Queensland Grant for a publication and exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art n 2000. He is represented by Ryan Renshaw Gallery Brisbane.

Two additional purchases were made for the Gold Coast City Art Gallery Collection.

Peter ALWAST - Spill 2008, archival digital print and oil on canvas

and

Sam LEACH - Peacock robot arm 2008, oil and resin on wood

Exhibition continues until 8 Feb. All works for sale