Posts by Nicholas Thompson
VIRGINIA CUPPAIDGE RESTORATION PROFILED IN ‘ART GUIDE AUSTRALIA’ BY BRIONY DOWNES
The art of restoration with Virginia Cuppaidge Making art since childhood, as a teenager Virginia Cuppaidge set her sights on travelling to New York City to see the Abstract Expressionist paintings of Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman in person. In 1969 she touched down in New York with a suitcase and a pink mini skirt,…
Read MoreNICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY SPRING1883 EXHIBITION REVIEWED FOR MEMO BY AMELIA WINATA
… the spirit of Spring: the mix of kitsch… and old-world luxury… Downstairs at Nicholas Thompson, for example, the suite was excessively crammed with works—to good effect. Heidi Yardley’s sexy lady paintings (Babylon and Design for Scandal, both 2023) were placed on chairs that had been draped with the room’s silky curtains. Think sleazy boudoir.…
Read MoreNICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY SPRING1883 EXHIBITION IN ART GUIDE’S TOP PICKS OF THE FAIR
At the sneak peak of Spring1883 at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel, one gallerist declared the event “the art fair that artists love”. Rather than meaning something insular, they meant the spirit of fun and community when around 30 of Australia’s top commercial galleries (and a couple from New Zealand), situate artwork within the old grandeur of…
Read MoreNICOLE KELLY EXHIBITED IN SALON DES REFUSÉS 2023 AT S.H. ERVIN GALLERY
Nicole Kelly is exhibited in the Salon des Refusés 2023 at S.H. Ervin Gallery until 23 July . The Salon des Refusés was initiated by the S.H. Ervin Gallery in 1992. Each year the selection panel is invited to go behind the scenes of the judging process for the annual Archibald Prize for portraiture and…
Read MoreHEIDI YARDELY EXHIBITED IN ‘MELBOURNE NOW’ AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA
Heidi Yardley is exhibited in the National Gallery of Victoria’s landmark exhibition ‘Melbourne Now’, with an installation of three paintings – including two acquired by the NGV from her 2022 exhibition at the gallery . The inaugural 2013 ‘Melbourne Now’ exhibition was an unprecedented survey of some of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners. Ten…
Read MoreELYSS MCCLEARY FEATURED IN ‘ARTIST PROFILE’ ISSUE 62
My art practice explores the spaces that shift between representation and abstraction, with a focus on painting and drawing. Working predominantly in oil paint, I use colour, gesture, materiality, compositional rhythms, and intuition to create spaces that are both a reflection of the everyday and something that expands from it. My upcoming show, at Nicholas…
Read MoreELYSS MCCLEARY EXHIBITION PREVIEWED IN ‘ART COLLECTOR’ ISSUE 103
For her forthcoming exhibition at Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Elyss McCleary will present a sequential suite of medium to large paintings depicting rainbow spectrum scenes of colour luminosity. The works amalgamate notions of grounding and lightness, as well as interconnected human relationships, abstracted through vivid and hovering compositional colour plays. “McCleary’s initial fresh fast drawing is…
Read MoreKARLA MARCHESI PROFILED IN VAULT MAGAZINE ISSUE 40, ARTICLE BY LOUISE MARTIN-CHEW
. Karla Marchesi is profiled in the current issue of VAULT magazine, feature by Louise Martin-Chew . “Living in Berlin, and approaching the age of 40, Karla Marchesi has found a strong female voice and the gift of time, fuelled by painterly liberation and a gutsy libido. Her new works exploit scale, humour and conceptual…
Read MoreKARLA MARCHESI AWARDED THIRD PRIZE IN REDLAND ART AWARDS 2022
Redland Art Awards is a biennial contemporary painting competition open to all Australian artists, presented by Redland Art Gallery, Queensland Image: Karla Marchesi ‘The Crane Wife’ 2022 Oil on linen 180 x 150cm
Read MoreHEIDI YARDLEY EXHIBITED IN FORTHCOMING 2023 ‘MELBOURNE NOW’ AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA
Celebrating new and ambitious local art and design, Melbourne Now will cross a range of contemporary disciplines including fashion and jewellery, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, video, performance, printmaking and publishing. The inaugural 2013 exhibition was an unprecedented survey of some of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners. Ten years on, Melbourne Now 2023 will again highlight the…
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