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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 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 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
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Elyss McCleary is exhibited in ‘Harmonious Eccentricity’ with Emma Ovenden from 25 January to 7 March at Correspondences, Brunswick. The collaborative residency project features painting by Elyss McCleary alongside live music, improvisation, video, quilting and beading practice by musician/composer/visual artist Emma Ovenden. The project is presented over six weeks and features five different displays. Alongside the exhibitions, community-making and a range of events have been planned. Image: Elyss McCleary Golden sherbet waves pash, I want to be on a beach with you with a pine lime splice 2018 oil on linen 140cm x 125.5cm
Wendy Stavrianos ‘Cage Fragment’ 1976 is currently exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in the exhibition ‘Significant Others’ until 11 February 2024 The exhibition celebrates connections between artists and their works in the Gallery’s outstanding Collection, exploring a range of different relationships between pairs of artists – as partners, family members, teachers, mentors or friends. . Wendy Stavrianos ‘Cage Fragment’ 1976 ink on canvas 152.9 x 119.7 cm 2. Wendy Stavrianos, 1978
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
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