Boutwell Draper Gallery

Established in 2001, Boutwell Draper Gallery is committed to the promotion of both emerging and established contemporary artists. The artists shown in the gallery work in a broad range of media, from painting and photography to sculpture, installation, video and digital arts.

Susan Boutwell grew up in Duseldorf (Germany) and graduated from the University of Cologne in the mid-1980s. She has had 21 years of commercial gallery experience in Australia, Europe and the United States. In Sydney, at Australian Galleries and Rex Irwin Art Dealer, artists she worked with included Arthur Boyd, John Coburn, Henry Moore, Justin O'Brien, Jeffrey Smart, Tim Storrier, Ann Thompson, Brett Whiteley, Fred Williams and John Wolseley. Before coming to Australia Susan worked at Pat Hearn Gallery (New York), Claudio Guenzani Gallery (Milan) and Jule Kewenig Gallery (Cologne), dealing with some of America and Europe's most famous contemporary artists: Georg Dokoupil, James Ellington, Mary Heilman, Salvo and Philip Taaffe, in New York; Arcangelo, Stefano Arienti, and Franz Wanner, in Milan; Curtis Anderson, Christian Boltanksi, Marcel Broodthaers, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Magdalena Jetelova, Guiseppi Penone, Ulrich Rueckriem and Niele Toroni, in Cologne.

James Draper is a graduate of the University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts (1981), where he studied visual arts and interior design. An accomplished sculptor, his works were exhibited at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Macquarie Galleries and Christine Abrahams Gallery in the 1980s.