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WENDY STAVRIANOS EXHIBITION REVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER HEATHCOTE

March 19, 2026

Wendy Stavrianos’s ‘Gathering’ series fills the exhibition space at Nicholas Thompson Gallery over in Collingwood. In recent years this gallery has been dipping into old canvases stored in her studio, then presenting shows which review aspects of this senior artist’s career. Stavrianos is known as a project based artist, each of her many shows amounting to an integrated body of visual work on a specified theme. There are 15 interlinking paintings in oil executed between 2003 and 2025 in the present exhibition, including one piece which was a chosen finalist for the AGNSW’s Sulman Prize in 2007. The ‘Gathering’ series was prompted by an…

HEIDI YARDLEY EXHIBITED IN ‘NEW OLD SCHOOL’ AT MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY

March 14, 2026

Heidi Yardley is exhibited in ‘New Old School’ at Maitland Regional Art Gallery until 28 June.   Curated by Chelsea Lehmann and Luke Thurgate, ‘New Old School’ brings together seven contemporary painters – Rob Cleworth, Nicholas Ives, Kate Kurucz, Chelsea Lehmann, Jordan Richardson, Luke Thurgate & Heidi Yardley – who treat art history as a living companion rather than a distant legacy. Engaging in a “conversation across time”, the artists reimagine historical forms, materials, and figures to explore how the past persists within the present. Balancing reverence and reinvention, the exhibition celebrates painting’s enduring vitality and complex history.   Image:…

ANTONIA SELLBACH SCHOOLHOUSE STUDIOS RESIDENCY EXHIBITION

March 12, 2026

Schoolhouse Studios is proud to present ‘Comet Logic: Pedagogical Trails’, a new body of work by Antonia Sellbach. The artworks in the exhibition ‘Comet Logic: Pedagogical Trails’ were developed during a three-month residency at Schoolhouse Studios, Coburg (January–March 2026). As I worked, emergent and recurring forms persisted: circular, globular shapes initially resembling rocks, stars, planets, eyes, eggs, or cells. Through the repeated depiction of these forms, further observations began to surface. Many shared a similar internal structure: a dense nucleus surrounded by halos, or comas. I began to consider how the inner mechanics of a comet might echo the forms…

Celeste Chandler included in Andrew Frost’s ‘Critics Choice’ in the current issue of Art Collector

July 14, 2017

NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY INCLUDED IN THE DESIGN HOARDER’S GUIDE TO MELBOURNE ART SPACES ON TOWNSKE

June 16, 2017

https://townske.com/guide/18438/melbourne-art-spaces-

Karla Marchesi finalist in the 2017 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at Bendigo Art Gallery

June 7, 2017

LINK TO PRIZE BELOW: http://www.bendigoartgallery.com.au/prizes_scholarships/arthur_guy_memorial_painting_prize

Celeste Chandler featured in Jane Howard’s review of the Ramsay Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia in ‘The Guardian’

June 3, 2017

LINK TO ARTICLE BELOW: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jun/02/sheep-bones-glitter-and-shaving-cream-the-bold-divergent-art-of-the-under-40s

Wendy Stavrianos ‘Silent Rooms and Portals to Uncertain Shores’ opens tonight at Glasshouse Regional Gallery Port Macquarie, current to 25 June 2017

May 19, 2017

Wendy Stavrianos ‘Silent Rooms and Portals to Uncertain Shores’ opens tonight at Glasshouse Regional Gallery Port Macquarie, current to 25 June @glasshousepmq . “This exhibition is a distilled statement of Stavrianos philosophy of life and art making, it is a statement about the oneness of our being with a warning that we, as a civilisation, are playing with forces that may lead to our complete destruction.” – Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA Australian National University http://www.glasshouse.org.au/Whats-On/Wendy-Stavrianos-May-2017

CELESTE CHANDLER ONE OF 21 FINALISTS IN THE INAUGURAL RAMSAY ART PRIZE 2017 AT THE ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

May 7, 2017

MORE INFORMATION ON RAMSAY ART PRIZE BELOW: https://ramsay.artgallery.sa.gov.au/artist/celeste-chandler/

KARLA MARCHESI PROFILED IN ‘THIS WILD SONG’

April 22, 2017

LINK TO STORY BELOW: http://thiswildsong.com.au/KarlaMarchesi.html

CELESTE CHANDLER’S COMMISSIONED PORTRAIT OF PROFESSOR NALINI JOSHI FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY UNVEILED AT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY EVENT, DISCUSSED IN SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

March 12, 2017

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-subtle-trap-for-female-academics-is-still-an-enduring-reality-20170310-guve8o.html

NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY INCLUDED IN ROSS COULTER’S ‘AUDIENCE’ PROJECT AND BOOK, TO BE EXHIBITED AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA IN MARCH 2017

February 6, 2017