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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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SUZANNE ARCHER’S EXHIBITION ‘MOVING FORWARDS, LOOKING BACK: A SURVEY 1969 TO 2016’ PREVIEWED IN ARTIST PROFILE
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SEAN LOWRY ESSAY FROM SU BAKER MONOGRAPH ‘SUSTAINED SENSATION’ REPRODUCED ON ART GUIDE AUSTRALIA ONLINE
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LEO COYTE INTERVIEWED BY VARIA KARIPOFF IN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2016 EDITION OF ART GUIDE AUSTRALIA
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Wendy Stavrianos: ‘I have always aimed for my work to be more akin to visual poetry’ The artist talks about her concern with environmental degradation and mass migration, and her aim to share her sadness and memories in her latest works by JANET McKENZIE Wendy Stavrianos (b1941) lives near Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, and has recently produced a haunting body of work that she refers to as her “old-woman paintings”. In her overtly political works, such as Rape of a Northern Land (1976-78), she was a strident voice against the pollution created by mining. Drawing on a large scale with…
IAIN DEAN’S EXHIBITION ‘WHAT IS ERROR?’ OPENS AT WELLINGTON STREET PROJECTS, SYDNEY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2016
“I am not Iain Dean” said the Artist, “He met me serendipitously when a package I had ordered online was mistakenly delivered to his house, rather than my own, which is located directly across the road. The fact that we look similar is purely coincidental. Iain asked me to come here today to answer your questions about his work. Apparently he thinks I have a unique perspective.” He paused, frowning, “I am not so sure, I can only guess at Iain’s process, because I’m not him, but I would imagine it has something to with circles, triangles and squares.” He…
SUZANNE ARCHER’S SURVEY EXHIBITION ‘THE ALCHEMY OF THE STUDIO’ CURRENT TO 7 NOVEMBER AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, SYDNEY
During September through to November this year the Macquarie University Art Gallery will be the home of a collection of works by Dobell Prize-winning artist Suzanne Archer in a major survey exhibition spanning three decades: Suzanne Archer: the alchemy of the studio. Curated by Sioux Garside, the exhibition commences on 9 September and is open to the wider community until 7 November 2016 at the Macquarie University Art Gallery. “Suzanne’s work is renowned within the art establishment. The afterlife is a reoccurring theme that draws emotional and intellectual responses about the mortality of our lives,” explains Rhonda Davis, Senior Curator…