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Wendy Stavrianos’s ‘Gathering’ series fills the exhibition space at Nicholas Thompson Gallery over in Collingwood. In recent years this gallery has been dipping into old canvases stored in her studio, then presenting shows which review aspects of this senior artist’s career. Stavrianos is known as a project based artist, each of her many shows amounting to an integrated body of visual work on a specified theme. There are 15 interlinking paintings in oil executed between 2003 and 2025 in the present exhibition, including one piece which was a chosen finalist for the AGNSW’s Sulman Prize in 2007. The ‘Gathering’ series was prompted by an…
Heidi Yardley is exhibited in ‘New Old School’ at Maitland Regional Art Gallery until 28 June. Curated by Chelsea Lehmann and Luke Thurgate, ‘New Old School’ brings together seven contemporary painters – Rob Cleworth, Nicholas Ives, Kate Kurucz, Chelsea Lehmann, Jordan Richardson, Luke Thurgate & Heidi Yardley – who treat art history as a living companion rather than a distant legacy. Engaging in a “conversation across time”, the artists reimagine historical forms, materials, and figures to explore how the past persists within the present. Balancing reverence and reinvention, the exhibition celebrates painting’s enduring vitality and complex history. Image:…
Schoolhouse Studios is proud to present ‘Comet Logic: Pedagogical Trails’, a new body of work by Antonia Sellbach. The artworks in the exhibition ‘Comet Logic: Pedagogical Trails’ were developed during a three-month residency at Schoolhouse Studios, Coburg (January–March 2026). As I worked, emergent and recurring forms persisted: circular, globular shapes initially resembling rocks, stars, planets, eyes, eggs, or cells. Through the repeated depiction of these forms, further observations began to surface. Many shared a similar internal structure: a dense nucleus surrounded by halos, or comas. I began to consider how the inner mechanics of a comet might echo the forms…
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Nicole Kelly is a finalist in the 2024 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown Art Centre. The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award is an annual art award and exhibition inviting artists to submit works in a variety of artistic categories and mediums. Now in its 62nd year, there is over $60,000 in prize money to be won across the categories. In 2024, the celebrated Open Award, which is acquisitive to the Campbelltown City Council Art Collection, is valued at $50,000. Over the years, the Open Award has been awarded to some of Australia’s most respected contemporary artists including Elisabeth Cummings, Khaled…
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…
Wendy Stavrianos 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…
Tai Snaith 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…
Tonee Messiah is a finalist in the 2024 Mosman Art Prize at Mosman Art Gallery. The Mosman Art Prize is the longest running and most prestigious municipal art prize in Australia. Winning entries form the basis of the Mosman Art Collection, a valuable and historic collection that surveys Australian painting since 1947. The Mosman Art Prize is an acquisitive award of $70,000 sponsored by Mosman Council. Previous winners form a roll call of Australian art luminaries; Grace Cossington Smith, Nancy Borlase, Lloyd Rees, Guy Warren, Margo Lewers, Jenny Sages, Noel McKenna, Cressida Campbell, Jumaadi, Elisabeth Cummings, Adam Cullen, Jasper Knight, Guan…
It is with much sadness that Nicholas Thompson Gallery marks the passing of Guy Warren (1921 – 2024). Guy Warren was born in 1921 and celebrated his 100th birthday in April 2021. Melbourne painter Peter Wegner’s portrait of the artist was awarded the Archibald Prize in 2021, the 100th anniversary of the prize. Guy Warren exhibited regularly since 1955. Following war service with the AIF from 1941-46, he studied at the National Art School from 1947 to 1949 under the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Training Scheme. He was the Principal lecturer and Head of Painting at the Sydney College of Arts from…
‘It is with deep consideration that Hughes reimagines objects, challenging the relationships that exist between the original artist, the viewer and herself. The act of looking is integral. We are left wondering which of these three protag¬onists holds the position of main voyeur: what is Hughes looking for? By considering objects of the past, transmuted through the mistrans-lations and slippages of history, Hughes has found a way to encounter herself in the present.’ extract from Josephine Mead ‘Studio: Kez Hughes’ in ‘Art Guide Australia’, May/June 2024 p 76 to 81
Nicole Kelly is a finalist in the 2024 Goulburn Art Award . The Goulburn Art Award began in 1992 and is held every two years. The Award represents the talent and diversity of artists working within the region. The Gallery encourages submissions from artists at all stages of their careers. The 2024 Goulburn Art Award will be judged by Bree Pickering, Director, National Portrait Gallery. . Image Nicole Kelly ???????????????? ???????? ???????????????? ???????????????? 2023 oil on polyester 131.5 x 117cm
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