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SUZANNE ARCHER EXHIBITED IN ‘FEMME-MAISON: IMAGINED BOUNDARIES – WOMEN ARTISTS FROM THE COLLECTION AND BEYOND’ AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY UNTIL 29 APRIL

March 26, 2024

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 Women’s Art Movement in Australia in Macquarie University’s 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 Women’s Art Movement in Australia we have tapped into the collection by reappraising those shifts and generational legacies.…

KEZ HUGHES FINALIST IN 2024 BAYSIDE PAINTING PRIZE

March 20, 2024

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 ‘𝙉𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙠𝙤 𝙉𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙢𝙪𝙧𝙖, 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙, 𝙎𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝙂𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙮 2016’ 2023 oil on linen 64 x 79 cm

MARTIN GEORGE FINALIST IN 2024 BAYSIDE PAINTING PRIZE

March 20, 2024

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 𝙑𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙮 2024 acrylic on linen 76 x 101.5cm Photo Photographic Record, Melbourne

ALUN LEACH-JONES NOUMEMON BLUE IKON IN ‘PUBLIC WORKS’ BRONWYN WATSON IN ‘THE AUSTRALIAN’

May 7, 2020

Alun Leach-Jones, Noumenon XI blue ikon, 1967. Collection Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria. Gift of the Benalla Apex Club, 1967. The work can be viewed online at https://benallaartgallery.com.au/benallacollection/collection-view/1052789/ When Alun Leach-Jones, at the age of 23, decided to leave England, it was because, he said, he was feeling “hemmed in”. He was also keen to escape the possibility of an “easy, middle-class life of a provincial lawyer or doctor”. Instead he chose to emigrate to what he considered the furthest point away from his homeland — and that was Australia. He arrived in Adelaide in 1960 where, while studying at the…

JAMES DRINKWATER IN NEWCASTLE HERALD ‘HUNTER IDENTITIES REVEAL WHAT THEY’RE DOING WITH THEIR TIME AS CORONAVIRUS HITS HOME’ BY SCOTT BEVAN

April 24, 2020

MARCH 28 2020 – 6:00AM Hunter identities reveal what they’re doing with their time as coronavirus hits home Scott Bevan  ESCAPE: Artist James Drinkwater at Myall Lakes. Picture: Supplied It is far better to be alone than in bad company,” the first US President, George Washington, famously advised. And right now, among the worst company you can keep is coronavirus. To prevent the disease from spreading, we’re being told to stop keeping company with each other. Our lives as social animals feel like they are being sealed and boxed away. Our world is shrinking by the day. Here we are,…

RHYS LEE ON JUXTAPOZ ‘ART IN UNCERTAIN TIMES: RHYS LEE REPORTS FROM DOWN UNDER’ BY SASHA BOGOJEV

April 23, 2020

Art In Uncertain Times: Rhys Lee Reports From Down Under April 22, 2020 | in Studio Time Continuing our mission to check with friends and favorite artists around the globe, we virtually traveled all the way to Victoria, Australia, to check on what’s happening with Rhys Lee. Based in a small coastal town located southwest of Melbourne, the artist is a whirl of activity as he intensively works on new paintings.   “It’s pretty much business as usual in the studio,” Lee kicks off his report from Down Under. “My studio is in my backyard so I’m lucky there is no travel involved.”…

ELEANOR LOUISE BUTT IN ISSUE 92 OF ART COLLECTOR MAGAZINE

April 21, 2020

ELEANOR LOUISE BUTT ON ‘THE DESIGN FILES’ IN STUDIO VISIT BY SASHA GATTERMAYR

April 15, 2020

Sunshine-Tinted Paintings By Eleanor Louise Butt STUDIO VISIT In these late autumnal days heading firmly into winter, the shift between seasons is most noticeable. Daylight savings slips away, temperatures drop into distinctly icier territory, and nature’s fragility begins to flake into nothing. Eleanor Louise Butt’s paintings remind us of this seasonal shift. Her latest body of work, created whilst on residency in Cornwall, England late last year, combines a brilliant balance of bark-like textures, earthy tones and, perhaps most noticeably, deep yellows – a colour that has become a distinctive hallmark of Eleanor’s paintings over the past few years. Now…

ELEANOR LOUISE BUTT PROFILED ON A-OK

April 10, 2020

Eleanor Butt What led you to choose painting as a medium? (Or did painting choose you?) Painting is the medium that allows me to speak my own language. When I was very young, my mum was at university and doing an art subject, I remember clearly being interested in the research, images, and stories behind the works she was studying. I have always loved looking at paintings, and started painting with oils when I was a teenager. At art school I experimented across various modes of practice and actually left painting for a while, only to re-discover it in my…

JAMES DRINKWATER VIDEO-INTERVIEW BY TAI MITSUJI FOR ART COLLECTOR ON FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION AT NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY

April 9, 2020

HEIDI YARDLEY FINALIST IN THE 2020 PERCIVAL PAINTING PRIZE AT PERC TUCKER REGIONAL GALLERY FROM 22 MAY TO 19 JULY WITH HER WORK ‘GARETH SANSOM – GRAND GUIGNOL’

April 6, 2020

VIRGINIA CUPPAIDGE EXHIBITION REVIEWED BY JANE ECKETT FOR ‘MEMO’

April 4, 2020