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Kylie Banyard ‘soft landing’ is current from 2 September to 5 October at Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, opening 5.30 Thursday 5 September “soft landing is a love song dedication to my two sons. Made in response to the challenges of raising boys within a violent world in deep social and ecological crisis, the works in this exhibition represent an urgent desire to shower my children in flowers and a sense of radical hope for their futures.” Kylie Banyard, 2024 Images Kylie Banyard 𝙃𝙖𝙡 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙠𝙚 2024 acrylic and oil on cherry ballart dyed canvas 53 x 71…
How Melbourne artist Tai Snaith found unlikely inspiration in a derelict, haunted painting studio By Lisa Skerrett Melbourne artist Tai Snaith found unlikely inspiration for her current exhibition in the derelict, haunted worker’s cottage she occupied for almost a year. (Supplied: Virginia Cummins) Artist Tai Snaith didn’t believe in ghosts until she started collaborating with them. For the past year, her painting studio has been a dilapidated two-bedroom worker’s cottage in Fitzroy North, Naarm (Melbourne), which came replete with bygone fixtures including an old icebox fridge, Art Nouveau fireplace, and the spirits of the two previous owners. “Every morning when I open…
Amber Wallis is a finalist in the 2024 Len Fox Painting Award at Castlemaine Art Museum The Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize and is awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915), the uncle of Len Fox, partner of benefactor Mona Fox. The Len Fox Painting Award recognises and promotes the work of Australian artists pursuing the artistic interests and qualities of E. P. Fox. These include engagement with colour and light; ambitious connections with international developments in art; and an interest in travel and an…
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NICHOLAS THOMPSON INTERVIEWED ON ‘ARTS ABOUT’, RADIO PORT PHILLIP FM, DISCUSSES SARAH FAULKNER’S EXHIBITION ‘NATURE MORTE’
LINK TO AUDIO HERE: http://rppfm.com.au/show/podcasts/the-peninsula-arts-scene – PODCAST FILE 26 JULY 2015
REVIEW IN ‘THE AGE’ BY DAN RULE OF SHOTS OFF THE DICES CURATED BY RHYS LEE
It’s downright refreshing to witness a curator – albeit a painter doing a one-off shift as a curator – frame his curatorial logic in terms of his mateship with the selected artists. While nepotism is a rampant, relatively unchecked and certainly unadmitted ailment of the art world, Shots off the Dices sees organiser and artist Rhys Lee use friendship (and painting) as the show’s binding thread. That’s all it needs, for Lee’s sensibilities as an artist creep out nicely amid this densely populated show of works. There’s plenty in the way of arcane, blurred and bled figuration here. American artist…
ARTICLE ON ‘SHOTS OFF THE DICES’ CURATED BY RHYS LEE IN ‘THE AGE’
The internet, and Instagram in particular, has radically reshaped the way the art world operates. Just as collectors will often purchase works they’ve only seen on Instagram, artists such as Rhys Lee are swapping artworks with artists they’ve never met, and who live halfway round the globe. “Sometimes they arrive in one piece and sometimes they don’t,” Lee jokes. The principle extends to a new group exhibition Lee has curated, Shots Off the Dices, opening at Nicholas Thompson Gallery on Saturday. “The Australians in it are my friends … and the internationals are new friends that I’ve met on Instagram,”…
ALUN LEACH-JONES WORK IN ’21ST CENTURY HEIDE: THE COLLECTION SINCE 2000′ AT HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Alun Leach-Jones ‘Untitled’ collage in ’21st Century Heide: The collection since 2000′ at Heide Museum of Modern Art until June 14 2015 Link to Heide exhibition page here
OPENING EXHIBITION REVIEW IN THE AGE
Link to Dan Rule’s article ‘In the galleries: what to see in Melbourne this weekend’, here text version below: “If the debut exhibition at new Collingwood space Nicholas Thompson Gallery is anything to go by, the young art dealer – who has spent time at Australian Galleries and John Buckley Gallery – has an eye for no-nonsense painting, with significant works from artists of all generations, including senior painters Gordon Shepherdson and Alun Leach-Jones and mid-career artists Sarah Faulkner and Craig Waddell. A monumental work by John Firth-Smith, which stands at more than 2.7 metres, is a highlight, his abstract motifs…
GALLERY IN UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ALUMNI NEWS
Read article here – text version below: UQ Art History graduate opens his own commercial gallery 24 March 2015 Nicholas Thompson, an Honours graduate in Art History from the University of Queensland, has opened his own commercial gallery in Melbourne. Nicholas completed his Honours thesis on Australian Indigenous Art at UQ and has worked at some of the most esteemed galleries in Australia. Mr Thompson said his experience in galleries including Australian Galleries and John Buckley Gallery in Melbourne and Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane was where he honed his skills in the commercial sector of the art world. “I had…
GALLERY IN THE AGE AND SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Read the article online here, text version below: Nicholas Thompson’s new Collingwood gallery sparks dialogue between artists young and old Dylan Rainforth Published: March 17, 2015 – 2:32PM Nicholas Thompson opens a new, eponymous gallery in Langridge Street, Collingwood, this Saturday, only a stone’s throw from Australian Galleries where he was gallery manager for the past three years. Before that he worked for John Buckley and, in his hometown of Brisbane, Philip Bacon Galleries. “I’d been working for galleries for about a decade and it was kind of just time to do my own thing,” Thompson says. “I’m opening with15 artists…
NICHOLAS THOMPSON INTERVIEWED ON ALEX MCCULLOCH’S THE ART SHOW
Link to the interview here
GALLERY IN ART COLLECTOR MAGAZINE
Column in Jan 2015 issue on the opening of the gallery.