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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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Artist Profile have published online Louise Martin-Chew’s 2018 feature on Gordon Shepherdson (1934 – 2019) as a tribute to the artist . VALE Gordon Shepherdson . ‘His sensitivity and quiet introversion pervades each painting. Each one represented ‘hunks of me’, intended for an ‘audience of one’ he once said…’ extract from Louise Martin-Chew for Artist Profile @artistprofile .
Gordon Shepherdson ‘one of the major artists of Australia’s figurative tradition’* passed away on the 18th of July 2019 . Gordon Shepherdson ‘A small survey of recent work’ was the first solo exhibition held at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in 2015. A painter’s painter, it is wonderful that Gordon’s images, from the powerful to the subdued, have continued to resonate with so many artists, especially younger generations. His friendship, support and kind nature will be greatly missed and always remembered. . Gordon Shepherdson (1934 – 2019) attended classes with Caroline Barker of the Royal QLD Art Society (1951-52), Arthur Evan Read…
Virginia Cuppaidge: The Nature of Abstraction https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4770/virginia-cuppaidge-the-nature-of-abstraction/ Virginia Cuppaidge, Mauve River, 1972, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist The forty-year chronology traced in Virginia Cuppaidge: The Nature of Abstraction begins with Mauve River (1972) and ends with Bee Map (2012). This survey is a coup for Newcastle Art Gallery and curator Sarah Johnson, with nineteen paintings and a single vitrine of archival material occupying the ground floor of the two-level gallery. Opened in 1977, the brutalist building was the first custom-designed regional art gallery in Australia and its internal spaces were conceived for exactly the kind of big painting that Cuppaidge dreamed of in her youth. In…
KEVIN CONNOR VISUAL ARTS REVIEW (NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY, MELBOURNE) By W H Chong June 25, 2019 This show of paintings and drawings has the fervour of an artist in their youthful prime, but Connor is 87 this year. He is one of the grandest old painters in Sydney with many works in the Art gallery of NSW. Reproductions of his earlier work in the books at the gallery, consistent in feeling and expression, prove these late works as even looser, painted with more velocity. There is nothing to understand, you look and “get” it, like a knack. It’s all in…
‘The ‘St Stephen’ paintings of the late 1980s provided the artist with a motif which allowed a personal vision to merge with an event of historical and mythical significance. These works are some of the very few examples of narrative painting by Shepherdson’ extract from David Burnett’s catalogue essay for ‘Marks + Moments: Paintings by Gordon Shepherdson’ Queensland Art Gallery, 1997
James Drinkwater: the sea calls me by name 30 May 2019 | Chloe Mandryk In speaking with James Drinkwater ahead of a major survey show at Newcastle Art Gallery we explore his porous approach to painting where an intriguing conceptual and material web is crafted, it’s a structure with space for transience, like a dream-catcher. His paintings possess an associative aesthetic that invites the audience to join, or complete an emotional journey. You very eloquently describe your personal relationship with painting as a ‘long eternal conversation with the past’. But, making or creating is generative, so what are you hoping…
Art review: Virginia Cuppaidge, the nature of abstraction, Newcastle Art Gallery Jill Stowell Virginia Cuppaidge is an Australian artist who has also been an international figure for the last 40 years, though unlike the Francophiles Rupert Bunny and John Russell in an earlier generation, she has regularly exhibited her vibrant abstract paintings in Australia as well as in New York, where she has lived since 1969. It may at first seem surprising to find in Newcastle a survey exhibition covering the entirety of her long and successful career, but for Virginia Cuppaidge, the nature of abstraction has largely come about…