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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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GUY WARREN TWO PART INTERVIEW ON ABC RADIO NATIONAL ‘EARSHOT’
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NICHOLAS THOMPSON MENTIONED IN ARTICLE ‘A FINE ART’ ON PHILIP BACON IN THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW MAGAZINE
“Like younger artists there are also younger dealers making a name for themselves. Bacon has a particular regard for Jan Murphy and Bruce Heiser in Brisbane, and Sophie Gannon and Nicholas Thompson in Melbourne. In the ebb and flow of the art business, life goes on.” Read more: http://www.afr.com/brand/afr-magazine/why-philip-bacon-is-australias-goto-art-dealer-20160321-gnnecv#ixzz47GpZcQ2l Follow us: @FinancialReview on Twitter | financialreview on Facebook
CELESTE CHANDLER AND KARLA MARCHESI FINALISTS IN THE BAYSIDE ACQUISITIVE ART PRIZE
The Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize (BAAP) is an annual prize and exhibition that aims to increase opportunities for participation in Bayside’s arts and cultural program; foster a sense of identity, pride and place in Bayside through a community event; and enable the acquisition of suitable artworks for the Bayside City Council Art & Heritage Collection. BAAP will be judged by industry professionals who will award total prize monies and acquisitive funds of $19,000. In 2016 the major prize of $15,000 will be awarded to a painting, in subsequent years the prize may be for works on paper, small sculpture or…
‘Genesis of a painter: Guy Warren at 95’ at S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney until 29 May
To celebrate the milestone 95th birthday of artist Guy Warren in 2016, the S.H. Ervin Gallery is presenting an exhibition of works from the 1950s & 1960s, produced during his London years and soon after his return to Sydney, and his latest works which reveal how the artist’s obsession with emergence and submergence of the figure in relation to its background, the poetry of being that has been evident throughout his oeuvre to the present day. Curated by Barry Pearce, Emeritus curator Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW. http://www.shervingallery.com.au/whats-on/current
NICHOLAS THOMPSON QUOTED IN ART COLLECTOR’S ‘ARTISTS UNCOVERED’, ISSUE 76
Having opened his new gallery early last year, Nicholas Thompson has been keeping an eye out for emerging talent. He first came across the dreamy, atmospheric paintings of Nicholas Ives at Melbourne ARI Rubicon. “I find Nick’s use of soft colour atmospheric and really engaging,” says Thompson. “The way his objects float against the more free flowing abstraction of his background landscapes creates an interesting tension. It’s the presentation of these arrangements and senarios.. that I find really captivating”.
NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY AND LEO COYTE’S EXHIBITION FEATURED ON NINE NETWORK AND VISIT VICTORIA’S ‘POSTCARDS’
Art Tour Melbourne has long been heralded a hub for all things sport and fine dining but what really sets it apart is its diverse art culture you won’t find anywhere else. Walk To Art tours will help you discover a new form of art right on your doorstep, from uncovering street murals, new and unique gallery spaces to artist run studios like Juddy Roller studios, Nicholas Thompson Gallery to project spaces such as Gertrude Contemporary. Top off your tour with a stop by Rupert on Rupert in Collingwood, a repurposed warehouse combining relaxed dining and bar areas with stylish…
LEO COYTE’S ‘OH MAN’ ACQUIRED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ART MUSEUM, BRISBANE
Leo Coyte’s ‘Oh man’ acquired by the University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
SARAH FAULKNER ‘PERSONAL COLLECTION’ SURVEY EXHIBITION AT FITZROY LIBRARY FROM 4 FEBRUARY TO 30 MARCH 2016
Personal Collection by Sarah Faulkner In this exhibition, artist Sarah Faulkner showcases some of the paintings from her personal collection, including small oil and gouaches. The works range from early Roar days in the 1980s to many different images from travels in Australia and overseas. Many of these paintings Sarah has held onto because of the special affinity she has with them, as they show a time or place, or an experience, close to her heart. Some recent works are also included which until now have been kept behind closed doors. Sarah Faulkner was a founding member of Roar Studios, a…
SUMMER EXHIBITION REVIEWED BY DAN RULE IN ‘THE AGE’, SATURDAY 23 JANUARY 2016
“There’s plenty to like about this happily crammed group show of (chiefly) paintings at Nicholas Thompson Gallery. One of Melbourne’s new generation of younger gallerists, Thompson isn’t afraid to search beyond the stocks of fashionable local artists in their early-mid career – or indeed his own postcode – to fill his gallery space. And it certainly shows here, with a clutch of quality paintings spanning various styles, modes and iterations. There are his go-to artists, including senior Sydney-based painter Alun Leach-Jones, who offers up a lively conglomeration of flat, colour forms that speak to cubism as much as they do…