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Tai Snaith is exhibited as a finalist in the Maquette: Sculpture Award at McClelland Gallery with her sculpture Black dog slippery dip until 22 February. The inaugural Maquette: Sculpture Award brings together 61 sculptures by contemporary Australian artists. One entry will be awarded $20,000 and will become part of McClelland’s renowned permanent collection, which is focused on modern and contemporary Australian sculpture. The title of this new sculpture prize refers to the scale of the entries—no more than 50 centimetres in any dimension. Finalists were selected by artist Lisa Roet and McClelland’s Artistic and Executive Director Lisa Byrne, with the winning work…
Heidi Yardley’s ‘Femme en fourrure’ is exhibited in ‘Synchron City’ at Gippsland Art Gallery from 6 December to 22 February. Curated by special guest Cassie May, Synchron City leads visitors on a strange and immersive journey through contemporary art where artworks disrupt and question everyday life. The concept of ‘synchronicity’, according to Carl Jung (1875–1961), suggested that coincidences could be related to unconscious processes, mirroring internal states and potentially offering guidance or insights. Through our collective unconscious, memories, dreams and reflections bubble beneath the surface. In this world of inner and outer space, our relationship to the environment is…
Objective Wed 12 November 2025 until Sat 24 January 2026 Town Hall Gallery This bold new exhibition challenges traditional concepts of still life, showcasing a diverse range of artists who push the boundaries of the genre. With a focus on contemporary expression, the exhibition offers an exciting departure from the conventional, using painting, video, sculpture and installation to explore everyday objects and scenes in unexpected ways. The featured artists each bring a unique vision to the genre. Familiar objects are transformed through abstraction and everyday forms are elevated into striking visual experiences. Installations examine the relationship between nature and…
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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.”
. Karla Marchesi is profiled in the current issue of VAULT magazine, feature by Louise Martin-Chew . “Living in Berlin, and approaching the age of 40, Karla Marchesi has found a strong female voice and the gift of time, fuelled by painterly liberation and a gutsy libido. Her new works exploit scale, humour and conceptual curiosities to climax as ‘impossible bouquets’….”
Redland Art Awards is a biennial contemporary painting competition open to all Australian artists, presented by Redland Art Gallery, Queensland Image: Karla Marchesi ‘The Crane Wife’ 2022 Oil on linen 180 x 150cm
Celebrating new and ambitious local art and design, Melbourne Now will cross a range of contemporary disciplines including fashion and jewellery, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, video, performance, printmaking and publishing. The inaugural 2013 exhibition was an unprecedented survey of some of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners. Ten years on, Melbourne Now 2023 will again highlight the latest art, architecture, design, and cultural practice shaping Melbourne. Bold in scale, Melbourne Now will be displayed throughout all levels of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, including permanent collection galleries, showcasing new works and commissions by emerging, mid-career and senior practitioners as well as…
Tonee Messiah has won the 2022 Waverley Art Prize for her painting ‘Accounting for Archetypes’. . “Messiah, a sessional painting lecturer at UNSW Art and Design and the National Art School, Sydney, was a Waverley Art Prize finalist in 2019 and this year launched a collaborative collection with Melbourne fashion label Gorman. . She describes her winning artwork as exploring both doubt and desire and ‘the polarising effects of these two states operate as activating forces, one to generate momentum and the other to temper and abate’. . A record 786 entries were received for the prize…” Mirage News, 23…
In the Studio: Celeste Chandler “I’ve had to find a way to work amongst the chaos of life.” When I speak to Melbourne-based artist Celeste Chandler about her upcoming show at Nicholas Thompson Gallery, 6 to 30 April, it’s from her kitchen-cum-studio. Prior to a couple of years ago, Chandler had a large studio and painted on a large scale. The studio was something she thought she could never give up – but due to a combination of circumstances, including the pandemic and her cancer diagnosis, Chandler has had to recalibrate. During the pandemic, many of us share this feeling…
Gorman has previously worked with Australian artists including Rhys Lee and Miranda Skoczek. In 2019, ‘Gorman: Ten years of collaborating’ was exhibited at Heide Museum of Modern Art featuring work by collaborative artists and Gorman textiles.