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Amber Wallis is a finalist in the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, current 10 August to 3 November at Geelong Gallery The 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize continues a long tradition of acquisitive award exhibitions presented by Geelong Gallery, through which the permanent collection has grown substantially. The first painting prizeโthe Geelong Centenary Art Competitionโwas held in 1938, and in the more than 80 years since, the Gallery has awarded acquisitive prizes variously for paintings, watercolours and prints, generously sponsored by individuals, philanthropic and corporate supporters committed to contemporary art. Image Amber Wallis ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ค๐ง ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐๐ค๐ก๐๐จ 2023 oil on…
Eleanor Louise Butt is a finalist in the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, current 10 August to 3 November at Geelong Gallery The 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize continues a long tradition of acquisitive award exhibitions presented by Geelong Gallery, through which the permanent collection has grown substantially. The first painting prizeโthe Geelong Centenary Art Competitionโwas held in 1938, and in the more than 80 years since, the Gallery has awarded acquisitive prizes variously for paintings, watercolours and prints, generously sponsored by individuals, philanthropic and corporate supporters committed to contemporary art. Eleanor Louise Butt ๐๐ช๐ง๐๐ (๐๐๐จ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ก๐ก๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ) 2024 oil…
Eleanor Louise Butt’s 2020 painting ๐พ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ง๐๐จ๐จ๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ข (๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ช๐ข๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐๐) has been acquired by Gippsland Art Gallery Established in 1965, the first public art venue to open east of Melbourne, the Gippsland Art Gallery plays a vital role in the arts and culture of the region. Eleanor Louise Butt’s current exhibition ‘Slippages and Tensions’ opens 4 to 6pm this Saturday 22 June and continues to 6 July Image Eleanor Louise Butt ๐พ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ง๐๐จ๐จ๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ข (๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ช๐ข๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐๐) 2020 oil on linen 200 x 179 cm Photograph Matthew Stanton
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It is with much sadness that Nicholas Thompson Gallery marks the passing of Guy Warren (1921 – 2024). Guy Warren was born in 1921 and celebrated his 100th birthday in April 2021. Melbourne painter Peter Wegner’s portrait of the artist was awarded the Archibald Prize in 2021, the 100th anniversary of the prize. Guy Warren exhibited regularly since 1955. Following war service with the AIF from 1941-46, he studied at the National Art School from 1947 to 1949 under the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Training Scheme. He was the Principal lecturer and Head of Painting at the Sydney College of Arts from…
Amber Wallis is a finalist in the 2024 Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales โMy mother spent a large portion of her life living and working in Central Australia. I see her sometimes, walking the desert as a ghost in my dreams, a transparent yet protective force. This work abstractly portrays my matrilineal line: women and ghostly apparitions that exist within landscapes, architectural forms and interior spaces of my past. Iโm interested in notions of care, in womenโs experiences of steadfastness, protection and guardianship; and simultaneously our invisibility. My broader practice often references my…
Sally Anderson is a finalist in the 2024 Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales โHow do you hold a hurricane? How do you hold close things that are spiralling out of your control? Can you contain the sea in a quilt? How do we measure domestic, creative and maternal labour? With time? How does one get more time in a day? How do we hold households, partners, children, paintings, parents and ourselves simultaneously? This painting speaks to the ways motherhood, domesticity and creative practice are, for me, reciprocal and ultimately entangled. Each informs and…
โIt is with deep consideration that Hughes reimagines objects, challenging the relationships that exist between the original artist, the viewer and herself. The act of looking is integral. We are left wondering which of these three protagยฌonists holds the position of main voyeur: what is Hughes looking for? By considering objects of the past, transmuted through the mistrans-lations and slippages of history, Hughes has found a way to encounter herself in the present.โ extract from Josephine Mead โStudio: Kez Hughesโ in โArt Guide Australiaโ, May/June 2024 p 76 to 81
Nicole Kelly is a finalist in the 2024 Goulburn Art Award . The Goulburn Art Award began in 1992 and is held every two years. The Award represents the talent and diversity of artists working within the region. The Gallery encourages submissions from artists at all stages of their careers. The 2024 Goulburn Art Award will be judged by Bree Pickering, Director, National Portrait Gallery. . Image Nicole Kelly ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฝ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ค๐ช๐ง 2023 oil on polyester 131.5 x 117cm
Congratulations to Eleanor Louise Butt who has been awarded the 2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize for Painting. The $50,000 acquisitive award will see Eleanor’s work added to the Muswellbrook collection, which includes previous winners such as David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Richard Larter and Fred Williams. . Established in 1958, the Muswellbrook Art Prize is one of the most celebrated prizes for painting in regional Australia. Astute adjudication of the Prize over the years has yielded an excellent collection of modern and contemporary Australian paintings, works on paper and ceramics from the Post War period of the 20th Century and into the…
Suzanne Archer is exhibited in ‘Femme-Maison: Imagined Boundaries – Women artists from the collection and beyond’ at Macquarie University Art Gallery until 29 April Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Womenโs Art Movement in Australia in Macquarie Universityโs 60th anniversary Macquarie University Art Gallery is proud to present this two-venue exhibition program in partnership with Gallery Lane Cove A collection can reveal multiple viewpoints and conceptions, nuanced by its history of continuity and gaps. In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Womenโs Art Movement in Australia we have tapped into the collection by reappraising those shifts and generational legacies.…
Kez Hughes is a finalist in the 2024 Bayside Painting Prize Established in 2015, the Bayside Painting Prize is one of the most generous non-acquisitive painting prizes in the country. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting in Australia today. Image: Kez Hughes ‘๐๐ค๐ง๐๐ ๐ค ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ง๐, ๐๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐ก๐๐ฃ๐, ๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ง๐ฎ 2016’ 2023 oil on linen 64 x 79 cm
Martin George is a finalist in the 2024 Bayside Painting Prize . Established in 2015, the Bayside Painting Prize is one of the most generous non-acquisitive painting prizes in the country. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting in Australia today. . Image: Martin George ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ฎ 2024 acrylic on linen 76 x 101.5cm Photo Photographic Record, Melbourne