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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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Wendy Stavrianos By Lucy Stranger | September 14, 2017 Nicholas Thompson presents an exhibition that marks the fiftieth anniversary of Wendy Stavrianos’ first solo exhibition in 1967. To mark this significant point in Stavrianos’ career, the exhibition ‘Rage, Memory & Desire: Revisiting the 1980s’ looks to a powerful and potent period of the artist’s career. Charged and intense, the bringing together of this series is an insight to a time of change and personal challenges for the artist. Speaking of the period, Stavrianos reflected, “Looking back, the 1980s was for me an incredible creative time, although a period of great upheaval. There…
https://visualarts.net.au/news-opinion/2017/q-future-contemporary/ Is this your first year at Sydney Contemporary and what kind of work will you be presenting? Nicholas Thompson, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne: This is my second year at Sydney Contemporary. I am presenting a solo exhibition of new paintings by Alun Leach-Jones. The exhibition is significant as it coincides with the artist’s eightieth year and the fiftieth anniversary of his first exhibition in Sydney. The exhibition catalogue includes a commissioned essay by Sasha Grishin AM. How did you decide on which artist/s to present at art fairs? Nicholas Thompson, Nicholas Thompson Gallery: I really like to present…
“Nicholas Thompson, who first showed at Sydney Contemporary in 2015, has a simple goal for this year’s installment of the fair. The Melbourne gallerist is planning a solo exhibition of new work by the senior artist Alun Leach-Jones… its an extension of his Collingwood gallery’s ongoing support of senior artists, many of whom are overlooked in contemporary art discourse…”
“…there’s also some young galleries that have been started by people who have worked at older or blue-chip galleries and are happily exhibiting mid-career and established artists. So it’s a really good mix and a nice way to meet the next generation of gallerists coming through.” CEO and fair director Barry Keldoulis
