WENDY 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…

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WENDY 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…

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SUZANNE ARCHER, SU BAKER & WENDY STAVRIANOS INCLUDED IN ANNE MARSH ‘DOING FEMINISM: WOMEN’S ART & FEMINIST CRITICISM IN AUSTRALIA’ PUBLISHED BY THE MIEGUNYAH PRESS

“A bold and strikingly illustrated record of women’s art and feminism in Australia, ‘Doing Feminism’ represents over 220 artists and groups with 370 colour illustrations punctuated by extracts from artists’ statements, curatorial writing and critique. Tracking networks of art practice, exhibitions, protest and critical thought over several generations, Marsh demonstrates the innovation and power of…

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WENDY STAVRIANOS FEATURE BY SASHA GRISHIN IN ISSUE 54 OF ‘ARTIST PROFILE’

Wendy Stavrianos: Paintings from a room Wendy Stavrianos has a distinctive artistic vision – an artistic personality that is authentic, unique and identifiable from twenty paces and one that is impossible to confuse with the work of any other artist. Her art is deeply autobiographic and consists of symbols and motifs that she has gathered…

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WENDY STAVRIANOS FEATURED ON ART GUIDE AUSTRALIA’S ‘THE LONG RUN’ PODCAST

The Long Run #2: Wendy Stavrianos on landscape, nature and gender barriers PODCAST Tiarney Miekus, 4 September 2020 What does it mean to create and innovate over six decades? Art Guide Australia’s newest podcast series The Long Run considers this question with three artists who have had careers spanning sixty years, each reflecting on their…

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WENDY STAVRIANOS IN ‘VAULT’ EXTRA’S HIGHLIGHTS OCTOBER 2019

WENDY STAVRIANOS AT NICHOLAS THOMPSON The abstraction of Wendy Stavrianos’ recent body of work results from the artist’s psychological and physical observations of the inescapable effects of contemporary climate catastrophe. The outcome is a collection of paintings, characterised by sharp contrasting pastels and deep black tones that reflect on the harsh reduction of the Australian…

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WENDY STAVRIANOS ‘THROUGH THE WINDOW OF AN INNER ROOM’ PREVIEWED BY JOHN MCDONALD IN ‘THE AGE & SYDNEY MORNING HERALD’ 20 SEPTEMBER

Art: Wendy Stavrianos By John McDonald September 20, 2019 — 11.44pm Wendy Stavrianos. Lives: Walmer, VIC. Age: 78. Represented by: Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne; no Sydney gallery Her thing. Expressive, semi-abstract landscapes of the imagination. Our take. Wendy Stavrianos’s new works explore that borderline between the studio and the external world, between observation and memory, landscape and invention. It’s been…

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WENDY STAVRIANOS SURVEY EXHIBITION PREVIEWED ON ARTIST PROFILE

Wendy Stavrianos By Lucy Stranger | September 14, 2017 Nicholas Thompson presents an exhibition that marks the fiftieth anniversary of Wendy Stavrianos’ first solo exhibition in 1967. To mark this significant point in Stavrianos’ career, the exhibition ‘Rage, Memory & Desire: Revisiting the 1980s’ looks to a powerful and potent period of the artist’s career. Charged…

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