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Kylie Banyard ‘soft landing’ is current from 2 September to 5 October at Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, opening 5.30 Thursday 5 September “soft landing is a love song dedication to my two sons. Made in response to the challenges of raising boys within a violent world in deep social and ecological crisis, the works in this exhibition represent an urgent desire to shower my children in flowers and a sense of radical hope for their futures.” Kylie Banyard, 2024 Images Kylie Banyard ๐๐๐ก ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ฃ๐๐ก ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ง๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ค๐ ๐ 2024 acrylic and oil on cherry ballart dyed canvas 53 x 71…
How Melbourne artist Tai Snaith found unlikely inspiration in a derelict, haunted painting studio Byย Lisa Skerrett Melbourne artist Tai Snaith found unlikely inspiration for her current exhibition in the derelict, haunted worker’s cottage she occupied for almost a year.ย ย (Supplied: Virginia Cummins) Artist Tai Snaith didn’t believe in ghosts until she started collaborating with them. For the past year, her painting studio has been a dilapidated two-bedroom worker’s cottage in Fitzroy North, Naarm (Melbourne), which came replete with bygone fixtures including an old icebox fridge, Art Nouveau fireplace, and the spirits of the two previous owners. “Every morning when I open…
Amber Wallis is a finalist in the 2024 Len Fox Painting Award at Castlemaine Art Museum The Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize and is awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865โ1915), the uncle of Len Fox, partner of benefactor Mona Fox. The Len Fox Painting Award recognises and promotes the work of Australian artists pursuing the artistic interests and qualities of E. P. Fox. These include engagement with colour and light; ambitious connections with international developments in art; and an interest in travel and an…
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Amber Wallis is a finalist in the 2024 Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales โMy mother spent a large portion of her life living and working in Central Australia. I see her sometimes, walking the desert as a ghost in my dreams, a transparent yet protective force. This work abstractly portrays my matrilineal line: women and ghostly apparitions that exist within landscapes, architectural forms and interior spaces of my past. Iโm interested in notions of care, in womenโs experiences of steadfastness, protection and guardianship; and simultaneously our invisibility. My broader practice often references my…
Sally Anderson is a finalist in the 2024 Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales โHow do you hold a hurricane? How do you hold close things that are spiralling out of your control? Can you contain the sea in a quilt? How do we measure domestic, creative and maternal labour? With time? How does one get more time in a day? How do we hold households, partners, children, paintings, parents and ourselves simultaneously? This painting speaks to the ways motherhood, domesticity and creative practice are, for me, reciprocal and ultimately entangled. Each informs and…
โIt is with deep consideration that Hughes reimagines objects, challenging the relationships that exist between the original artist, the viewer and herself. The act of looking is integral. We are left wondering which of these three protagยฌonists holds the position of main voyeur: what is Hughes looking for? By considering objects of the past, transmuted through the mistrans-lations and slippages of history, Hughes has found a way to encounter herself in the present.โ extract from Josephine Mead โStudio: Kez Hughesโ in โArt Guide Australiaโ, May/June 2024 p 76 to 81
Nicole Kelly is a finalist in the 2024 Goulburn Art Award . The Goulburn Art Award began in 1992 and is held every two years. The Award represents the talent and diversity of artists working within the region. The Gallery encourages submissions from artists at all stages of their careers. The 2024 Goulburn Art Award will be judged by Bree Pickering, Director, National Portrait Gallery. . Image Nicole Kelly ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฝ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ค๐ช๐ง 2023 oil on polyester 131.5 x 117cm
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 Womenโs Art Movement in Australia in Macquarie Universityโs 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 Womenโs 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 ‘๐๐ค๐ง๐๐ ๐ค ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ง๐, ๐๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐ก๐๐ฃ๐, ๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ง๐ฎ 2016’ 2023 oil on linen 64 x 79 cm
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 ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ฎ 2024 acrylic on linen 76 x 101.5cm Photo Photographic Record, Melbourne
Sally Anderson 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: Sally Anderson ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐จ๐๐, ๐ฝ๐ง๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐จ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ, ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐จ๐๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ข๐, ๐๐ฝ ๐ฃ๐ช๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ช๐๐ก๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ก๐ค๐ฉ๐ 2024 acrylic on polycotton 168 x 137cm