VIRGINIA CUPPAIDGE IN CONVERSATION WITH ARTLINK EDITOR UNA REY AT SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY PUBLISHED ON ‘ARTLINK’ ONLINE

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…

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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,…

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VIRGINIA CUPPAIDGE NEWCASTLE SURVEY EXHIBITION REVIEWED BY UNA REY FOR ‘ARTLINK’

Virginia Cuppaidge: The Nature of Abstraction https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4770/virginia-cuppaidge-the-nature-of-abstraction/ Virginia Cuppaidge, Mauve River, 1972, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist The forty-year chronology traced in Virginia Cuppaidge: The Nature of Abstraction begins with Mauve River (1972) and ends with Bee Map (2012). This survey is a coup for Newcastle Art Gallery and curator Sarah Johnson, with nineteen paintings and a single vitrine of archival…

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