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SUZANNE ARCHER EXHIBITED IN ‘FEMME-MAISON: IMAGINED BOUNDARIES – WOMEN ARTISTS FROM THE COLLECTION AND BEYOND’ AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY UNTIL 29 APRIL

March 26, 2024

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 FINALIST IN 2024 BAYSIDE PAINTING PRIZE

March 20, 2024

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

MARTIN GEORGE FINALIST IN 2024 BAYSIDE PAINTING PRIZE

March 20, 2024

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 𝙑𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙮 2024 acrylic on linen 76 x 101.5cm Photo Photographic Record, Melbourne

RHYS LEE ‘WHISTLE WORLD’ OFFICIAL MELBOURNE ART WEEK EVENT

August 2, 2018

Rhys Lee: Whistle World Friday, 3 August, 2018 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Nicholas Thompson Gallery, 155 Langridge Street, Collingwood   Whistle World is an exhibition of nine new paintings by Victorian-based artist, Rhys Lee. With a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Graphic Design from the Queensland College of Art (1997), Lee has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and internationally in New York. Lee’s work has also been included in group exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne (2015), the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2012), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (2001), The University…

ALUN LEACH JONES TRIBUTE ESSAY BY IAN GRANT IN ‘ARTIST PROFILE’ ISSUE 48, 2018

July 14, 2018

SUZANNE ARCHER IN JOHN MCDONALD’S REVIEW OF RAW WEDDERBURN IN THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

July 10, 2018

Survey of work from one of Sydney’s most notable artists’ colony By John McDonald There is no fixed definition of an “artists’ colony” although there are numerous examples spread across the globe. Some are run like businesses, others are no more than clusters of like-minded bohemians. The prototype of the modern artists’ colony is probably Worpswede​, 28 kilometres from Bremen in northern Germany, which has been a haven for creative types since the 1880s. Australia’s best established example is Montsalvat​ on the outskirts of Melbourne, started by Justus Jorgensen in 1934. Second in line is Dunmoochin​, at Cottles Bridge, 50 kilometres…

SUZANNE ARCHER’S ‘UTANGO’ 1992 EXHIBITED IN ‘RAW WEDDERBURN’ AT DELMAR GALLERY, NSW

June 21, 2018

Suzanne Archer’s ‘Utango’ 1992 included in the exhibition ‘RAW Wedderburn’ opening this Saturday 23 June at Delmar Gallery, Ashfield NSW . An exhibition of the work of Wedderburn artists including Suzanne Archer, Elizabeth Cummings, Robert Hirschmann, Roy Jackson, Ildiko Kovacs and John Peart. Curated by Sioux Garside, current to 5 August . Suzanne Archer will exhibit new work at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in September 2018

VIRGINIA CUPPAIDGE PAINTINGS EXHIBITED AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA AUSTRALIA

June 18, 2018

Virginia Cuppaidge’s large scale paintings ‘Estuary’ 1971 and ‘Sasafras’ 1972 are on view at the National Gallery of Victoria Australia in an installation of work by Australian women abstract artists of the late 60s and early 70s, current to the 26th of August . . Both paintings were acquired through Nicholas Thompson Gallery in 2017. Virginia Cuppaidge will exhibit ‘Trailing the Perimeter’: A survey exhibition of paintings from the 1980s at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in November of this year

SU BAKER MADE A MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA (AM) IN QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY 2018 HONOURS

June 11, 2018

Congratulations to Professor Su Baker who was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) today in the Queen’s Birthday 2018 Honours for significant service to tertiary education in the visual and creative arts, particularly through advancing scholarship and research opportunities

CELESTE CHANDLER’S EXHIBITION REVIEWED IN ‘THE AGE’ BY ROBERT NELSON

May 29, 2018

Shape shifting At Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Celeste Chandler also makes me think of riotous rituals of shape shifting, albeit in the demure language of realist painting. Her Ladies’ night shows the artist with male masks over her face or false limbs in front of her body; and a suite of photographs shows the artist with further foamy props, smothered in shaving cream, at times looking like some Greek philosopher from antiquity. These works have the same balance of solemnity and farce, candour and masquerade, bravura and banality that one sees in fibre, painting and video media in Mexico City, a place where…

ALUN LEACH-JONES EXHIBITION PROFILED BY JOHN MCDONALD IN THE AGE & SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ‘GOOD WEEKEND’ MAGAZINE

May 12, 2018

Art: Alun Leach-Jones   Artist: Alun Leach-Jones. Lived: North Sydney, NSW. Age: Died December 2017, aged 80.Represented by: Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne (no Sydney representation). His thing: Abstract paintings, hard-edged and colourful. The Country Beyond the Stars (2017), 97 x 72cm, by Alun Leach-Jones. Photo: Alun Leach-Jones Our take: In 2003, Alun Leach-Jones painted a large canvas called The Country Beyond the Stars, drawing his title from a poem by Henry Vaughan (1621-95). In 2017 he returned to this work as the basis for a new series. These eight paintings ended up being the last of his career. The works were intended for a show to coincide with The Field Revisited at…

ALUN LEACH-JONES PREVIEWED BY JANE O’NEILL IN ‘UPFRONT: NOT TO BE MISSED’ IN ISSUE 84 OF ‘ART COLLECTOR’

May 1, 2018
ALUN LEACH-JONES PREVIEWED BY JANE O’NEILL IN ‘UPFRONT: NOT TO BE MISSED’ IN ISSUE 84 OF ‘ART COLLECTOR’