Posts by Nicholas Thompson
PIA MURPHY EXHIBITION FEATURED IN ‘THE DESIGN FILES’
See Pia Murphy’s ‘Garden Gravity’ Opening At Nicholas Thompson Gallery The artist’s indefinable oil paintings are on show at the Collingwood gallery until March 16. The oil paintings of Pia Murphy seamlessly combine abstract forms and recognisable figures across a vivid colour palette found in nature. Her latest body of work, Garden Gravity, is particularly inspired by…
Read MoreJAMES DRINKWATER IN ART GUIDE’S BEST OF THE MELBOURNE ART FAIR 2024
Best of Melbourne Art Fair 2024 What to see at this year’s Melbourne Art Fair, which features contributions from over 60 galleries. While on the topic of paintings, there are some great examples to mention this year, including Jan Murphy Gallery‘s (B2) presentation of Guida Maestri, accompanied by an array of red wax-cast elements as…
Read MoreELYSS MCCLEARY IN ‘HARMONIOUS ECCENTRICITY’ AT CORRESPONDENCE, BRUNSWICK
Elyss McCleary is exhibited in ‘Harmonious Eccentricity’ with Emma Ovenden from 25 January to 7 March at Correspondences, Brunswick. The collaborative residency project features painting by Elyss McCleary alongside live music, improvisation, video, quilting and beading practice by musician/composer/visual artist Emma Ovenden. The project is presented over six weeks and features five different displays. Alongside the exhibitions,…
Read MoreWENDY STAVRIANOS IN ‘SIGNIFICANT OTHERS’ AT ART GALLERY OF BALLARAT
Wendy Stavrianos ‘Cage Fragment’ 1976 is currently exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in the exhibition ‘Significant Others’ until 11 February 2024 The exhibition celebrates connections between artists and their works in the Gallery’s outstanding Collection, exploring a range of different relationships between pairs of artists – as partners, family members, teachers, mentors or…
Read MoreWENDY STAVRIANOS COLLECTOR’S DOSSIER BY ANNE MARSH IN ‘ART COLLECTOR’ ISSUE 106
Wendy Stavrianos campaigns for the soul of the earth and our embodied connection to it; exploring a psychological connection between nature, body and mind has sometimes been political, but mostly philosophical. When I emailed Wendy about this article asking for explanations from her that would assist an understanding of her practice over several decades, she…
Read MoreNICOLE KELLY FINALIST IN GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH ART AWARD 2024
Nicole Kelly is a finalist in the Grace Cossington Smith Art Award 2024 . The award is sponsored by Abbotsleigh school and commemorates one of its alumnae, Grace Cossington Smith, who is known as a pioneer of modernist painting in Australia. The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is a public gallery developing a collection with a…
Read MoreSALLY ANDERSON FINALIST IN GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH ART AWARD 2024
Sally Anderson is a finalist in the Grace Cossington Smith Art Award 2024 . The award is sponsored by Abbotsleigh school and commemorates one of its alumnae, Grace Cossington Smith, who is known as a pioneer of modernist painting in Australia. The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is a public gallery developing a collection with a…
Read MorePETER SHARP IN ABC ONLINE ‘HOW BROKEN HILL’S UNIQUE LIGHT HAS DRAWN GENERATIONS OF ARTISTS TO THE NSW FAR WEST’ BY COQUOHALLA CONNOR
How Broken Hill’s unique light has drawn generations of artists to the NSW far west ABC Broken Hill / By Coquohalla Connor Peter Sharp, a senior lecturer in painting and drawing at the University of New South Wales, made the same trip in the 1990s. “I was drawn out there because it was a romantic…
Read MoreKARLA MARCHESI ‘SLOW IS SMOOTH, SMOOTH IS FAST’ REVIEWED IN THE AGE BY TIARNEY MIEKUS
Nicholas Thompson Gallery, until October 21 Within the tremendous visual power of her flora paintings, their vivacity and particularity, Karla Marchesi gives us nature in all its beauty and potential monstrosity. Across 14 oil paintings, the Berlin-based, Brisbane-born artist has created still life floral scenes that have the uncanny shock of a dream. They are…
Read MoreKARLA MARCHESI FINALIST IN 2023 ARTHUR GUY MEMORIAL PAINTING PRIZE AT BENDIGO ART GALLERY
Karla Marchesi is a finalist in the 2023 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at Bendigo Art Gallery Held every two years, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize attracts some of Australia’s most accomplished artists. The Prize provides Bendigo Art Gallery with the opportunity to survey a breadth of contemporary painting by established and emerging artists…
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