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Antonia Sellbach’s ‘Unstable object 11’ has been acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria. Antonia Sellbach has held exhibitions in Victoria and Tasmania since 2010, including solo exhibitions at Heide Museum of Modern Art (2016-17), Schoolhouse Gallery (2022), BUS Projects (2015), C3 Contemporary Art Space (2014) and Faculty Gallery, RMIT (2011). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria; RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo; SVPA Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston; M16 Artspace, Canberra; Counihan Gallery, Melbourne and Bundoora Homestead Art Gallery, Bundoora. Sellbach’s work is held in prominent private and…
Tai Snaith is exhibited as a finalist in the Maquette: Sculpture Award at McClelland Gallery with her sculpture Black dog slippery dip until 22 February. The inaugural Maquette: Sculpture Award brings together 61 sculptures by contemporary Australian artists. One entry will be awarded $20,000 and will become part of McClelland’s renowned permanent collection, which is focused on modern and contemporary Australian sculpture. The title of this new sculpture prize refers to the scale of the entries—no more than 50 centimetres in any dimension. Finalists were selected by artist Lisa Roet and McClelland’s Artistic and Executive Director Lisa Byrne, with the winning work…
Heidi Yardley’s ‘Femme en fourrure’ is exhibited in ‘Synchron City’ at Gippsland Art Gallery from 6 December to 22 February. Curated by special guest Cassie May, Synchron City leads visitors on a strange and immersive journey through contemporary art where artworks disrupt and question everyday life. The concept of ‘synchronicity’, according to Carl Jung (1875–1961), suggested that coincidences could be related to unconscious processes, mirroring internal states and potentially offering guidance or insights. Through our collective unconscious, memories, dreams and reflections bubble beneath the surface. In this world of inner and outer space, our relationship to the environment is…
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NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY, RHYS LEE IN ‘THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW’ ARTICLE ON SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
“New at the fair this year are Melbourne’s Nicholas Thompson Gallery, which opened in March and is taking work by painter Rhys Lee” Link to article here: www.afr.com/…/a-lot-riding-on-the-success-of-sydney-contemporary-2015
NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY & RHYS LEE FEATURED IN ‘ART COLLECTOR: SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY SPECIAL EDITION’
Bright Futures for Young Galleries …Nicholas Thompson Gallery, which opened in Melbourne early 2015 is one such gallery exhibiting in the Future Contemporary sector. “I am very excited to be involved with the fair, which is emerging as one of the most significant in our region”, says gallery director Nicholas Thompson ahead of the fair. “I am looking forward to presenting my new gallery to a new audience.” Thompson, who has over a decade’s experience working with several of Australia’s most prominent galleries, is showing work by artist Rhys Lee. Lee works with an unpredictable and intuitive freedom that is…
RHYS LEE IN GROUP EXHIBITION ‘LOVE MORE HOURS’ AT THE IAN POTTER MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Rhys Lee’s work is included in ‘Love More Hours: Contemporary artists and craft’ at the Ian Potter Muesum, University of Melbourne. Wednesday 22 Jul 2015 to Sunday 11 Oct 2015 Curator: Suzette Wearne More love hours brings together selected works by thirteen contemporary Australian artists who use craft media, techniques or processes in their practice. While the works reflect significant stylistic and thematic diversity, the exhibition demonstrates how artists use ‘traditional’ forms of creativity—ceramics, embroidery, weaving, paper-craft—to express contemporary values and complex ideologies. More love hours than can ever be repaid is the title of a 1987 work by the late…
REVIEW IN ‘THE AGE’ BY DAN RULE OF SHOTS OFF THE DICES CURATED BY RHYS LEE
It’s downright refreshing to witness a curator – albeit a painter doing a one-off shift as a curator – frame his curatorial logic in terms of his mateship with the selected artists. While nepotism is a rampant, relatively unchecked and certainly unadmitted ailment of the art world, Shots off the Dices sees organiser and artist Rhys Lee use friendship (and painting) as the show’s binding thread. That’s all it needs, for Lee’s sensibilities as an artist creep out nicely amid this densely populated show of works. There’s plenty in the way of arcane, blurred and bled figuration here. American artist…
ARTICLE ON ‘SHOTS OFF THE DICES’ CURATED BY RHYS LEE IN ‘THE AGE’
The internet, and Instagram in particular, has radically reshaped the way the art world operates. Just as collectors will often purchase works they’ve only seen on Instagram, artists such as Rhys Lee are swapping artworks with artists they’ve never met, and who live halfway round the globe. “Sometimes they arrive in one piece and sometimes they don’t,” Lee jokes. The principle extends to a new group exhibition Lee has curated, Shots Off the Dices, opening at Nicholas Thompson Gallery on Saturday. “The Australians in it are my friends … and the internationals are new friends that I’ve met on Instagram,”…
ALUN LEACH-JONES WORK IN ’21ST CENTURY HEIDE: THE COLLECTION SINCE 2000′ AT HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Alun Leach-Jones ‘Untitled’ collage in ’21st Century Heide: The collection since 2000′ at Heide Museum of Modern Art until June 14 2015 Link to Heide exhibition page here
OPENING EXHIBITION REVIEW IN THE AGE
Link to Dan Rule’s article ‘In the galleries: what to see in Melbourne this weekend’, here text version below: “If the debut exhibition at new Collingwood space Nicholas Thompson Gallery is anything to go by, the young art dealer – who has spent time at Australian Galleries and John Buckley Gallery – has an eye for no-nonsense painting, with significant works from artists of all generations, including senior painters Gordon Shepherdson and Alun Leach-Jones and mid-career artists Sarah Faulkner and Craig Waddell. A monumental work by John Firth-Smith, which stands at more than 2.7 metres, is a highlight, his abstract motifs…
GALLERY IN UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ALUMNI NEWS
Read article here – text version below: UQ Art History graduate opens his own commercial gallery 24 March 2015 Nicholas Thompson, an Honours graduate in Art History from the University of Queensland, has opened his own commercial gallery in Melbourne. Nicholas completed his Honours thesis on Australian Indigenous Art at UQ and has worked at some of the most esteemed galleries in Australia. Mr Thompson said his experience in galleries including Australian Galleries and John Buckley Gallery in Melbourne and Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane was where he honed his skills in the commercial sector of the art world. “I had…
GALLERY IN THE AGE AND SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Read the article online here, text version below: Nicholas Thompson’s new Collingwood gallery sparks dialogue between artists young and old Dylan Rainforth Published: March 17, 2015 – 2:32PM Nicholas Thompson opens a new, eponymous gallery in Langridge Street, Collingwood, this Saturday, only a stone’s throw from Australian Galleries where he was gallery manager for the past three years. Before that he worked for John Buckley and, in his hometown of Brisbane, Philip Bacon Galleries. “I’d been working for galleries for about a decade and it was kind of just time to do my own thing,” Thompson says. “I’m opening with15 artists…