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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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A vivid survey of over forty contemporary Australian abstract painters by curator and bestselling author Amber Creswell Bell ‘There is an internal monologue, and a world of decisions and possibilities behind each work that the viewer does not see. Abstraction is akin to learning a new language.’ ANA YOUNG There is no single neat definition of abstract art. It makes no attempt to represent reality; instead it has its own visual language using shape, colour and form with no rules. An explosion of creative expression and gestural force, Australian Abstract explores the constantly evolving genre and how it offers unparalleled artistic freedom,…
Eleanor Louise Butt is a finalist in the 2023 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize with her painting ‘All that which sings’ . Established in 2015, the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize is a celebration of contemporary Australian painting. 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 . The finalist exhibition will be held at Bayside Gallery 12 May to 2 July 2023
Heidi Yardley is exhibited in the National Gallery of Victoria’s landmark exhibition ‘Melbourne Now’, with an installation of three paintings – including two acquired by the NGV from her 2022 exhibition at the gallery . The inaugural 2013 ‘Melbourne Now’ exhibition was an unprecedented survey of some of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners. Ten years on, ‘Melbourne Now’ 2023 again highlights the latest art, architecture, design, and cultural practice shaping Melbourne. . Bold in scale, ‘Melbourne Now’ is displayed throughout all levels of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, including permanent collection galleries, showcasing new works and commissions by…
My art practice explores the spaces that shift between representation and abstraction, with a focus on painting and drawing. Working predominantly in oil paint, I use colour, gesture, materiality, compositional rhythms, and intuition to create spaces that are both a reflection of the everyday and something that expands from it. My upcoming show, at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in Melbourne, is a presentation of new paintings that explore the sensation of luminous colour with a focus on intimacy. Its title, A Tender Anchor, recalls how formal elements create different harmonies and relationships in paintings, just like we do in our own human…
For her forthcoming exhibition at Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Elyss McCleary will present a sequential suite of medium to large paintings depicting rainbow spectrum scenes of colour luminosity. The works amalgamate notions of grounding and lightness, as well as interconnected human relationships, abstracted through vivid and hovering compositional colour plays. “McCleary’s initial fresh fast drawing is visible in the final image,” says Nicholas Thompson, “so that under and over layers are highlighted equally in presentation, with mistakes and process left visible, creating works that open up and evolve before the eye.”
Kylie Banyard’s painting ‘Touching Wattle’ has been acquired by Bendigo Art Gallery. . Touching Wattle was exhibited in Kylie Banyard’s 2022 exhibition at Nicholas Thompson Gallery ‘Becoming Sessile’. . The works respond to a daily ritual shared with the artist’s six-year-old son. Affectionally known as ‘touching’ and performed on walks together, the two documented their sensory and affective encounters touching and talking to plants. These paintings and the collaborative research that led to their making, raises questions about what careful time spent encountering and contemplating the lives of these enigmatic more-than-human keepers-of-place might teach us about other ways of being…
Sibling Show: A Conversation | Amber Wallis & Adam Lee In December 2022 artists Adam Lee and Amber Wallis met to discuss Amber Wallis’s solo exhibition Sibling Show at Nicholas Thompson Gallery. In the ensuing conversation the artists discuss their respective painting practices, the influence they have had on one another, life, children and the material processes that feed into their work. Adam Lee (AL): Amber asked me if we could have some sort of impromptu conversation as opposed to me just asking her questions. To give some context, Amber and I have had this strange, ongoing conversation with each other as two…
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 21st Century, with the winning acquisitive works forming the nucleus of what is now known as the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection. . Image Eleanor Louise Butt I’d make a soft green pillow for your head 2022 oil and acrylic on canvas 168 x 198 cm
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 21st Century, with the winning acquisitive works forming the nucleus of what is now known as the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection. Sally Anderson Lismore Island Roof Song with a Screenshot of Nat Silk’s Seatown, 2022 acrylic on polycotton 153 x 137 cm .