Posts by Nicholas Thompson
TAI SNAITH EXHIBITED IN 2026 NGV TRIENNIAL
Tai Snaith will be exhibited in the forthcoming NGV Triennial from the 13th of December 2026 to 11 April 2027. Featuring more than eighty ambitious and thought-provoking projects, including major new commissions, the 2026 NGV Triennial offers a global journey through contemporary art and design. Unfolding across all four levels of NGV International, the fourth…
Read MoreWENDY STAVRIANOS EXHIBITION REVIEWED IN THE AGE
Wendy Stavrianos’ exhibition ‘Early Works from The Gathering Series’ has been reviewed in The Age today, Sat 4 April 2026, by Tiarney Miekus ‘Wendy Stavrianos has been painting for nearly 60 years. She empathically yet acutely grasps landscapes and has captured the reality and mortality of climate change while rendering scenes that are natural, psychological…
Read MoreBETRA FRAVAL FINALIST IN 2026 BAYSIDE PAINTING PRIZE
Betra Fraval is a finalist in the 2026 Bayside Painting Prize. Established in 2015, the Bayside Painting Prize is Melbourne’s premier annual painting prize. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists from across Australia, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of…
Read MoreWENDY STAVRIANOS EXHIBITION REVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER HEATHCOTE
Wendy Stavrianos’s ‘Gathering’ series fills the exhibition space at Nicholas Thompson Gallery over in Collingwood. In recent years this gallery has been dipping into old canvases stored in her studio, then presenting shows which review aspects of this senior artist’s career. Stavrianos is known as a project based artist, each of her many shows amounting to an integrated body…
Read MoreHEIDI YARDLEY EXHIBITED IN ‘NEW OLD SCHOOL’ AT MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY
Heidi Yardley is exhibited in ‘New Old School’ at Maitland Regional Art Gallery until 28 June. Curated by Chelsea Lehmann and Luke Thurgate, ‘New Old School’ brings together seven contemporary painters – Rob Cleworth, Nicholas Ives, Kate Kurucz, Chelsea Lehmann, Jordan Richardson, Luke Thurgate & Heidi Yardley – who treat art history as a…
Read MoreANTONIA SELLBACH SCHOOLHOUSE STUDIOS RESIDENCY EXHIBITION
Schoolhouse Studios is proud to present ‘Comet Logic: Pedagogical Trails’, a new body of work by Antonia Sellbach. The artworks in the exhibition ‘Comet Logic: Pedagogical Trails’ were developed during a three-month residency at Schoolhouse Studios, Coburg (January–March 2026). As I worked, emergent and recurring forms persisted: circular, globular shapes initially resembling rocks, stars, planets,…
Read MoreHEIDI YARDLEY EXHIBITION REVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER HEATHCOTE
Heidi Yardley’s brief, if attention catching show at the Melbourne Art Fair continues to run for an additional fortnight over in Nicholas Thompson Gallery. Yardley has produced twelve large erotic paintings of female nudes which, in a flamboyant application of visual references, allude to the high Surrealism of Paul Delvaux, Meret Oppenheim and Man Ray.…
Read MoreHEIDI YARDLEY IN ART COLLECTOR, ISSUE 115 ‘MELBOURNE ART FAIR – IF I COULD HAVE’
Heidi Yardley in current issue 115 of Art Collector – Melbourne Art Fair special edition ‘If I could have’ ‘Naarm/Melbourne-based Heidi Yardley has established herself as one of Australia’s most compelling figurative painters, mining imagery from vintage media, psychological archives and esoteric traditions to create evocative paintings that explore porous boundaries between memory, identity and…
Read MoreNICHOLAS THOMPSON INTERVIEWED IN BROADSHEET ON PICKS FOR THE MELBOURNE ART FAIR 2026
The Most Exciting Australian Artists Right Now, According to Top Gallerists Every February, the city’s art scene goes up a gear. For close to 40 years, the Melbourne Art Fair has brought together the most exciting and sought-after artists across Australasia. This year, 60 of the country’s leading galleries, Indigenous-owned art centres and design studios join…
Read MoreHEIDI YARDLEY IN MELBOURNE ART FAIR AMBASSADOR REBECCA HARDING’S MUST-SEE MOMENTS
“Each piece of Heidi’s work could be a snapshot from a film or a hazy memory. There’s so much beauty and mystery in every painting which invites us as viewers to imagine the narrative behind the work rather than read it explicitly.” Rebecca Harding
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