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Tai Snaith’s work ‘Affirmative Animals’ is a finalist in this year’s Shelley Simpson Ceramics Prize. The Shelley Simpson Ceramics Prize (SSCP) was established in 2020 by Mud Australia Founder and Creative Director, Shelley Simpson, to support and champion the next generation of Australian ceramicists. Presented in partnership with Craft Victoria, the annual prize is open to ceramic artists working across functional ware, fine art, handcrafted objects and broader commercial ceramic practices. Alongside a $10,000 cash prize, shortlisted finalists will be exhibited at Craft Victoria as part of a dedicated exhibition celebrating contemporary Australian ceramics. The finalists’ work will be exhibited…
Judith van Heeren is a finalist in the 2026 Maldon Landscape Prize with her work ‘Pink moon’. The 2026 Maldon Landscape Prize, themed “Essence of Place,” is a national art award in Australia presented by the Maldon Artist Network and Cascade Art Gallery, encouraging diverse, inventive interpretations of the landscape. The finalist exhibition runs from September 26 to October 24, 2026, at the Cascade Art Gallery. “Essence of Place” invites artists to capture their personal, figurative, spiritual, impressionistic, or abstract responses to the environment and land. The Prize is generously supported by the Hillary Merkus Recordati Foundation.
Judith van Heeren is a finalist in the 2026 R & M McGivern Prize with her painting ‘Old Moon’. The R & M McGivern Prize was established by the will of the late Muriel Evelyn McGivern, a local resident and artist of Maroondah, as a legacy of Muriel’s support of the arts in Maroondah. The Prize is awarded every three years by the Trustee for outstanding, original artwork in the medium of painting in oil and watercolour (including gouache). The R & M McGivern Prize is an acquisitive award and the winning artworks will become the property of the Maroondah…
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Vale: Alun Leach-Jones Once you start to realise you can become a painter, the only way you can become really major, is to just keep working, working, working – and he did. Alun Leach-Jones in his studio; Photography Michel Brouet, image supplied courtesy Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne Born in 1937 in Lancashire, UK, Alun Leach-Jones has spent the past half-century passionately devoted to his own language of abstraction, recognised as one of Australia’s leading painters and printmakers in the genre. He presented more than 82 solo exhibitions since 1964 when he first started showing, with his work really coming to…
Celebrated Australian abstract artist Alun Leach-Jones passed away on the 24th of December 2017 . One of Australia’s most significant abstract artists, Leach-Jones was born in Wales in 1937, and arrived in Australia in 1959. From his early training in manuscript illumination in Liverpool and interest in geometric abstraction “Leach-Jones adapted the cool and detached traditions of illumination and developed a peculiar and idiosyncratic style for his own concept of nonfigurative painting” (Sasha Grishin, 2017). He held more than 80 solo exhibitions and was included in significant group exhibitions including ‘The Field’ at the National Gallery of Victoria (1968) and…
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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 and intense, the bringing together of this series is an insight to a time of change and personal challenges for the artist. Speaking of the period, Stavrianos reflected, “Looking back, the 1980s was for me an incredible creative time, although a period of great upheaval. There…
