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Charles Nodrum first opened his gallery in Richmond in 1984 and has since been the leading advocate of mid-century Australian abstraction. Born in England in 1947, Charles moved to Australia in the early 1970s and began working for the eminent Melbourne art dealer Joseph Brown (artist). From 1975-78 he was the Melbourne Representative for Christie's Australia and from 1979-1983 he was Research Assistant to Alan McLeod McCulloch on the 1984 edition of the Encyclopaedia of Australian Art. In 1984 he opened a gallery in Church Street, Richmond and moved to the current premises at 267 Church Street in 1988. An accredited valuer for all periods of Australian art with the Federal Government's Cultural Gifts Program since its inception in 1978, Nodrum has completed major corporate and public valuations including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Brisbane), Allan, Allan and Hemsley (Sydney), The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 1980s (Melbourne), The Arts Centre Melbourne, The Holmes a Court Collection (Perth), Gippsland Art Gallery Collection, La Trobe Regional Gallery Collection, Hamilton Gallery Collection, and Warrnambool Art Gallery.

Artists & Exhibitions
Early exhibitions included work by Peter Upward, John Olsen (artist), Mike Brown, George Johnson (artist), David Aspden and John Peart (artist). Group exhibitions, variously titled Modern Australian Painting, included works by mid-century figurative painters like Godfrey Miller, Ian Fairweather, John Passmore, Charles Blackman, Joy Hester and George Bell (painter), through to the textured and expressionistic works on Frank Hodgkinson, Stan Rapotec, Roger Kemp, Peter Kaiser and Elwyn Lynn. Since 2000 his yearly group shows titled Abstraction have showcased historical and contemporary Australian abstract artists including Ron Robertson-Swann, Norma Redpath, Sydney Ball, Paul Partos, Trevor Vickers, Jonas Balsaitis, Leonard Brown, Richard Dunn, David Harley and Don Laycock. Other major group shows include Australian Surrealist Paintings, 1991, Central Street, 1990, The Changing Face of Melbourne, 1993, and The Hutchinson Collection, 2014. Since the late 1990s Nodrum has held regular exhibitions of Australia's leading surrealist painter James Gleeson. His stable also includes a group of contemporary figurative painters; Kristin Headlam, Tom Alberts, Sadie Chandler, and sculptor Clive Murray-White.

Personal Collection
Exhibitions of Charles Nodrum's personal collection include Fresh Fields: 1960s-70s Abstraction from the Charles Nodrum Collection, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 6 February - 28 March, 2004 & Benalla Art Gallery, 8 May - 6 June, 2004 and Unearthed: Fifty years of Australian Landscape Art from the Charles Nodrum Collection, La Trobe University Art Museum, 16 July- 29 August, 2010.