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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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I was fortunate enough to meet Alun Leach-Jones for the first time in July 2017 when I interviewed him in his Sydney studio for Art Guide Australia. The English born painter was softly spoken, but gregarious, and our conversation ranged from the discipline of his daily painting routine and his passion for abstraction and colour to his plans for the future which included a solo show of new work at Sydney Contemporary in September 2017. Leach-Jones immigrated to Australia in 1960 and he came to national prominence when his work was included in the now iconic 1968 exhibition The Field at the National Gallery of Victoria. I…
Vale: Alun Leach-Jones Once you start to realise you can become a painter, the only way you can become really major, is to just keep working, working, working – and he did. Alun Leach-Jones in his studio; Photography Michel Brouet, image supplied courtesy Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne Born in 1937 in Lancashire, UK, Alun Leach-Jones has spent the past half-century passionately devoted to his own language of abstraction, recognised as one of Australia’s leading painters and printmakers in the genre. He presented more than 82 solo exhibitions since 1964 when he first started showing, with his work really coming to…
Celebrated Australian abstract artist Alun Leach-Jones passed away on the 24th of December 2017 . One of Australia’s most significant abstract artists, Leach-Jones was born in Wales in 1937, and arrived in Australia in 1959. From his early training in manuscript illumination in Liverpool and interest in geometric abstraction “Leach-Jones adapted the cool and detached traditions of illumination and developed a peculiar and idiosyncratic style for his own concept of nonfigurative painting” (Sasha Grishin, 2017). He held more than 80 solo exhibitions and was included in significant group exhibitions including ‘The Field’ at the National Gallery of Victoria (1968) and…
DRAWING TREES AND DRINKING TEA WITH PETER SHARP November 2, 2017 Kate Swinson / Art Contributor It is midmorning, a beautiful Spring day and I am weaving through carved blocky wooden sculptures in varying states of completion. They are sitting somewhat randomly leading up to the entrance of the studio I am visiting. I notice that the beautiful grey wood is undergoing its own natural process being weathered by the sun and rain. I manoeuvre past one final sculptural work and enter the airy spacious studio of Sydney artist Peter Sharp. Peter creates breathtaking artwork and maintains wonderfully simple and…
Rhys Lee Shares ‘10 Paintings and 100 Drawings’ ART ‘I always want to show everything that I make… get it out there! Otherwise it just sits in a studio pile or gallery stockroom,’ tells artist Rhys Lee. In his current, epic exhibition at Nicholas Thomson Gallery, he’s certainly been able to showcase a great deal of his most recent output – a rich and brilliantly perturbing exploration of the human condition. 20th October, 2017 Rhys Lee at Nicholas Thompson Gallery, with works for his new show, 10 Paintings amd 100 Drawings’. Photo – Makiko Ryujin courtesy of Nicholas Thompson Gallery. The exhibition is currently on…
Rhys Lee: Ten Paintings and One Hundred Drawings 29 September 2017 | Elli Walsh Rhys Lee’s painted protagonists slide between shapes and species like hallucinatory projections of subliminal currents. Bestial snouts and anthropoidean faces flicker with the familiar and strange, knocking humanity off its evolutionary throne into a shadowy subterranean world where renegade cowboys and carnivalesque outcasts lurk with predatory stealth. Rhys Lee, Untitled, 2017, oil on canvas, 97 x 80cm. Courtesy the artist and Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne This year Lee has been working on two shows, in Cologne and Melbourne, amassing a total of 40 medium to large…
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