Virginia Cuppaidge

Virginia Cuppaidge is exhibited in Know My Abstraction at University Gallery at the University of Newcastle from the 19th of July to the 6th of September. Know My Abstraction offers a regional counterpoint to the National Gallery of Australia’s 2019 Know My Name initiative, extending its critical reckoning with gender imbalance into the the terrain of local practice…

Virginia Cuppaidge ‘Singing in Harmony’ with Chris Capper is current at Maitland Regional Art Gallery until June 22 ‘Singing in Harmony’ brings together the colourific artistic voices of Chris Capper and Virginia Cuppaidge in a dynamic exhibition that explores the interplay between abstraction, perception, and nature. Capper’s powerfully restrained and coloured compositions offer a sense…

In Conversation: Virginia Cuppaidge and Una Rey at Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 2023. Virginia Cuppaidge (at left) and Una Rey at Nicholas Thompson Gallery’s booth, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, 2023. Photo: Lisa Slade Una Rey_After an illustrious career in New York, artist Virginia Cuppaidge chose to make Newcastle, Australia, her home. I was…

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,…