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Judith Van Heeren is exhibited in Groundswell at Castlemaine Art Museum until the 19th of July. In order to effect change, you need a groundswell, a groundswell of opinion, a surge of emotion, a desire for new thinking. This exhibition celebrates artists who want to build a groundswell for change whether that be environmental, cultural, personal or political. This exhibition has evolved from earlier projects celebrating the women who worked together to found the gallery in the early 20th century. Like them, any of the contemporary artists in this exhibition value networks, community connection and participation. Contemporary local artists include: Arkeria Armstrong,…
Antonia Sellbach is exhibited in ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’, opening at RMIT Gallery on 5 June 2026. Instigated and directed by Dr Irene Barberis (RMIT School of Art), this exhibition emerges from her long-term friendship and mentorship with the esteemed American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt. In the 1960s, LeWitt revolutionised the definition of contemporary art by presenting the simple but radical idea that a work of art’s concept is more important than its form. RMIT Gallery is delighted to centre this exhibition around a LeWitt wall drawing; the…
Nicole Kelly is a finalist in the 2026 Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales with her painting ‘Bird Hour’. “I have visited the arid zone of remote Fowlers Gap Research Station in NSW, 110 kilometres north of Broken Hill, continuously for the past six years. Bird hour is an accumulated response to these visits, celebrating the variety of bird life and visually shifting desert landscape. Reflecting on our binding relationships with the landscape and a love of the land, the painting reveals an ongoing attempt to portray reality in a way that liaises not with literal…
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Martin George is a finalist in the 2025 Kedumba Drawing Award. The Kedumba Drawing Award and Kedumba Collection were established by Jeffrey Plummer, with the support of the Blue Mountains Grammar School, in 1990. The award is one of the longest running, and most prestigious, drawing prizes in Australia. Image: Martin George “Spoke (Variations)” 2025 pencil and ink on paper CD jewel case 12 x 14cm Photograph Tim Gresham
Heidi Yardley’s ‘Untitled (woman in white)’ has been acquired by Bendigo Art Gallery. The work was exhibited in Nicholas Thompson Gallery’s presentation at this year’s Spring1883 Art Fair in the Dame Nellie Melba Suite at the Hotel Windsor. Bendigo Art Gallery is one of the oldest and largest regional galleries in Australia, established in 1887. The extensive collection has an emphasis on 19th century European art and Australian art from the 1800’s, alongside a strong collection of contemporary Australian art.
Tai Snaith’s work recently acquired by Bayside Gallery is exhibited in ‘Future past: recent additions to the Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection’ at Bayside Gallery, Brighton until 19 October. This exhibition presents a selection of artworks that have been recently acquired by Bayside City Council. A range of themes, styles and periods are represented and reflect the diversity of Bayside City Council’s Art and Heritage Collection. Image 1. Tai Snaith ‘Hierarchy of needs’ 2022 gouache, watercolour, ink and collage on paper, 87 x 67 cm
Kez Hughes’ painting Revolution of capital from her July exhibition has been acquired by Artbank. Artbank is part of the Australian Government Office for the Arts, in the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts. Established in 1980 by the Australian Government, Artbank’s two core objectives are to provide direct support to Australian contemporary artists through the acquisition of their work and to promote the value of Australian contemporary art to the broader public. Kez Hughes Revolution of capital 2025 oil on linen 112 x 87 cm
Tai Snaith was the August Artist-in-Residence at Jacky Winters Gardens and was photographed by Gavin Green: During her recent residency at Jacky Winter Gardens, Tai and her gentle giant hound Wally re-visited many places of her childhood (Tai grew up for many years in the hills), which has formed the research for two of her large paintings in her forthcoming show ‘Days Eye Opens’ at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in November 2025. She made sketches and took notes from nostalgic locations like the Mt Dandenong Arboretum, the Kalorama All Saints church and The Sherbrooke forest, where she spent much of her…
“For a while Kez Hughes was creating paintings of other artworks and sculptures from ancient and classical periods, but now her focus has enticingly shifted to temperamental landscapes and lightly surreal scenes. Partly inspired by a recent trip to Naples and the volcano Vesuvius, the paintings foremost hold a sense of time: that past moments, like volcanic eruption, linger through history, awaiting excavation in the present. In this sense, we live through the past in Hughes’s paintings. She delivers moments like the splash of raindrops as a person runs through the street in their towel; a horse in the moonlight;…
Tai Snaith is exhibited in the Women’s Art Register exhibition ‘UNSEEN’ until 27 September at ACU Melbourne Gallery, Australian Catholic University UNSEEN will showcase a collection of artworks by W.A.R members that have never before been exhibited or sold. Each artist has personally selected a piece, offering a rare glimpse into hidden creative narratives. This show feature works created across different time periods and in diverse range of mediums, spanning painting, sculpture, photography, textile art and more. By bringing these unseen works into public view, the exhibition challenges the historical underrepresentation of women in the visual arts and highlights the…
Virginia Cuppaidge is exhibited in Know My Abstraction at University Gallery at the University of Newcastle from the 19th of July to the 6th of September. Know My Abstraction offers a regional counterpoint to the National Gallery of Australia’s 2019 Know My Name initiative, extending its critical reckoning with gender imbalance into the the terrain of local practice shaped by place, process, and perception. As Linda Nochlin famously argued, the absence of “great women artists” reflects not a lack of talent but entrenched structural barriers. This exhibition addresses that disparity by amplifying the work of four Newcastle-based women abstractionists; Virginia Cuppaidge, Belinda Street,…
Heidi Yardley’s paintings ‘The door’ and ‘Psychique’ are currently exhibited in the 20th – 21st Century Australian Art Gallery at the National Gallery of Victoria’s Ian Potter Centre, Federation Square. Both works were exhibited at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in 2022 and acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria for the Melbourne Now exhibition in 2023. 1. Heidi Yardley ‘The door’ 2021 oil on linen 144 x 116 cm 2. Heidi Yardley ‘Psychique’ 2021 oil on linen 140 x 110 cm