Tonee Messiah
SUZANNE ARCHER, ELEANOR LOUISE BUTT, JAMES DRINKWATER, TONEE MESSIAH AND AMBER WALLIS IN THAMES AND HUDSON PUBLICATION ‘AUSTRALIAN ABSTRACT’ BY AMBER CRESWELL BELL
A vivid survey of over forty contemporary Australian abstract painters by curator and bestselling author Amber Creswell Bell ‘There is an internal monologue, and a world of decisions and possibilities behind each work that the viewer does not see. Abstraction is akin to learning a new language.’ ANA YOUNG There is no single neat definition…
Read MoreTONEE MESSIAH AWARDED 2022 WAVERLEY ART PRIZE AT BONDI PAVILION
Tonee Messiah has won the 2022 Waverley Art Prize for her painting ‘Accounting for Archetypes’. . “Messiah, a sessional painting lecturer at UNSW Art and Design and the National Art School, Sydney, was a Waverley Art Prize finalist in 2019 and this year launched a collaborative collection with Melbourne fashion label Gorman. . She describes…
Read MoreTONEE MESSIAH COLLABORATING ARTIST FOR GORMAN FEBRUARY 2022 COLLECTION
Gorman has previously worked with Australian artists including Rhys Lee and Miranda Skoczek. In 2019, ‘Gorman: Ten years of collaborating’ was exhibited at Heide Museum of Modern Art featuring work by collaborative artists and Gorman textiles.
Read MoreTONEE MESSIAH IN NEW ISSUE 51 OF ARTIST PROFILE, FEATURE BY LEE-ANN JOY
Tonee Messiah By Lee-Ann Joy Tonee Messiah’s debut show at Nicholas Thompson Gallery, ‘In the Practice of Sitting’, explores three recurring themes – posture, place and sensation. Yet in her new work, familiar compositional movements and spatial relationships have been reanalysed by the unexpected confines of her home during the COVID-19 lockdown. Observation of spaces…
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