Lemon Hill Gallery will show the work of Nathan Robertson during the month of November in an exhibition he has named
Unused Unusual.
Nathan makes industrial punk. He has never thought of himself as an artist and, in fact, considers himself a jack of all trades.
Nathan is currently working for Dandenong Council on road and drain maintenance, but in 2023 Lemon Hill Gallery curator, Elizabeth Blakeman, saw two pieces of his work and thought they were clever, original and attractive in a strange way, so she took a gamble and invited him to mount an exhibition in her gallery.
This unusual collection is the result, and Nathan is now having his first solo exhibition as an industrial punk artist.
He says he “repairs, modifies, re-creates and re-purposes an extensive range of materials, machinery and gadgets and then welds, melts, and in other ways assembles pieces that wouldn’t normally
go together”.
Over the years he has been a saviour of other’s unwanted items and has enjoyed using his “salvaged stash” to create slightly eccentric imaginative objects, some functional, some quirky.
Nathan has invited his daughter’s mother-in-law, Kim Sherry, to also exhibit some of her paintings.
She has serious Motor Neurone Disease, so this special part of the exhibition is important on many levels.
In the absence of the usual band, Saxy Beats, live music will be provided by some members of the Stringybark and Greenhide group, playing Australian folk music.
“All are welcome to this final exhibition at Lemon Hill Gallery before it closes its doors permanently, after five remarkably successful years,” Elizabeth said.
“I will be wearing my version of a punk outfit at this last opening, and I invite anyone attending to do the same.”
Details of the time and place are in the public notice section of the classified advertisements.
