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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 began by saying “throughout my practice I engage with the Metaphysical”. The works present an abstract and poetic exploration of psychological states of mind in relation to the experiences and representations of the body and nature. She writes: ‘Tracks through the landscape, threads that connect…
Nicole Kelly is a finalist in the Grace Cossington Smith Art Award 2024 . The award is sponsored by Abbotsleigh school and commemorates one of its alumnae, Grace Cossington Smith, who is known as a pioneer of modernist painting in Australia. The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is a public gallery developing a collection with a focus on learning about art and through art. . Nicole Kelly ‘Into blue’ 2023 oil on polyester 117 x 107 cm
Sally Anderson is a finalist in the Grace Cossington Smith Art Award 2024 . The award is sponsored by Abbotsleigh school and commemorates one of its alumnae, Grace Cossington Smith, who is known as a pioneer of modernist painting in Australia. The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is a public gallery developing a collection with a focus on learning about art and through art. . Sally Anderson ‘Nat Silk’s Seatown Still Life, PB Nude Quilt, Bromeliad Washdown’ 2023 acrylic on polycotton 153 x 137cm
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How Broken Hill’s unique light has drawn generations of artists to the NSW far west ABC Broken Hill / By Coquohalla Connor Peter Sharp, a senior lecturer in painting and drawing at the University of New South Wales, made the same trip in the 1990s. “I was drawn out there because it was a romantic adventure to paint the landscape,” he said. “That place will sink its teeth into you. Everyone boomerangs, everyone goes back to it.” Light like nowhere else Broken Hill, the silver city, sits on the edge of the South Australian and New South Wales border, over…
Nicholas Thompson Gallery, until October 21 Within the tremendous visual power of her flora paintings, their vivacity and particularity, Karla Marchesi gives us nature in all its beauty and potential monstrosity. Across 14 oil paintings, the Berlin-based, Brisbane-born artist has created still life floral scenes that have the uncanny shock of a dream. They are delightful but also skewed and mutating. Across a hazy pastel background (Marchesi is a master of using colour to convey a strange sense of weather) is a monumental amalgamation of flowers, petals and leaves. Other paintings depict sprouting growths akin to coral; delicate pansy-like flowers…
Karla Marchesi is a finalist in the 2023 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at Bendigo Art Gallery Held every two years, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize attracts some of Australia’s most accomplished artists. The Prize provides Bendigo Art Gallery with the opportunity to survey a breadth of contemporary painting by established and emerging artists from across Australia. Exhibition current 25 November 2023 to 18 February 2024 Image Karla Marchesi Pleasure Garden 2022 Oil on linen 180 x 150 cm
Peter Sharp is exhibited as a finalist in the 2023 Mosman Art Prize The Mosman Art Prize is the longest running and most prestigious municipal art prize in Australia. Winning entries form the basis of the Mosman Art Collection, a valuable and historic collection that surveys Australian painting since 1947. Exhibition current to the 29th of October Peter Sharp ‘Outlier’ 2022 oil and acrylic on linen 45 x 35 cm
Hayley Arjona is exhibited as a finalist in the 2023 Mosman Art Prize The Mosman Art Prize is the longest running and most prestigious municipal art prize in Australia. Winning entries form the basis of the Mosman Art Collection, a valuable and historic collection that surveys Australian painting since 1947. Exhibition current to the 29th of October Hayley Arjona Suspended Potential 2023 oil on board 120 x 120 cm
Nicole Kelly is exhibited as a finalist in the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2023 The biennial Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award is a significant national exhibition that aims to elevate the status of work on paper while supporting and promoting artists working with this medium. Exhibition current to the 12 of November Image Nicole Kelly ‘Notes from the desert’ 2023 oil monotypes 172 x 198.5 cm
Suzanne Archer is exhibited as a finalist in the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2023 The biennial Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award is a significant national exhibition that aims to elevate the status of work on paper while supporting and promoting artists working with this medium. Exhibition current to the 12 of November Image Suzanne Archer “Three Faces of Fear from the Mistaken Identity Series” 2022 Paper, acrylic paint, foamcore 75 x 40 x 40cm
PROCESS: Karla Marchesi It’s funny that there is a psychological divorce as soon as my paintings leave the studio. My mind is already bubbling with beginnings of what to make next; what will follow from what came before. I’ve long held the view: work begets work – through the practice itself is where meaning resides. I hold the rigour of daily practice closely. For me it’s a promise of a life-long relationship, born of forgiveness. acknowledging that not all aims can be achieved in one painting, or one exhibition. My commitment is to material curiosity and time. Through an art…
All That Which Sings | Eleanor Louise Butt 7 Oct – 19 Nov | Burrinja Gallery ‘As the image pulls me deep inside of it, a special kind of silence descends, trapping me in its dark spaces and channels of light; releasing its secrets as it carries me across surfaces and down through layers. And then that eternal struggle, as I try to pull back from its hold (its trance-inducing revelry, its devilry).’ Dr Jan Bryant, 2022 Eleanor Louise Butt is a Kallista-based contemporary artist whose practice is grounded in studio experimentation. Taking painting as her primary medium, she employs…