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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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Storm Approaching Wangi and Other Desires will bring art and dance together against the stunning backdrop of the lake at the Multi-Arts Pavilion, mima. Perhaps one of artist James Drinkwater’s most ambitious collaborative projects to date, this interdisciplinary contemporary ballet work explores Sir William Dobell’s history and relationship to Lake Macquarie through the lens of the master’s epic landscape painting, Storm approaching Wangi. Working alongside talented choreographers Belle Beasley and Skip Willcox, and innovative composer Joseph Franklin, Drinkwater embraces the ethos of the world famous Ballets Russes. Widely regarded as the most influential ballet company of the 20th century, it…
. 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…
Redland Art Awards is a biennial contemporary painting competition open to all Australian artists, presented by Redland Art Gallery. Redland Art Awards 2022 features four prizes, totalling $22,000. The primary award is an acquisitive prize of $15,000 with runner up awards of $4,000 and $2,500 as well as The Meredith Foxton People’s Choice Award of $500. Finalist work in Redland Art Awards 2022 Suzanne Archer Seclusion 2021 oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm Photo Bernie Fischer
The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize is produced by Woollahra Council. Over its 21 year history, the prize has featured some of the world’s most exciting contemporary sculptures, and continues to promote and celebrate artistic excellence. Finalist work in 2022 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Suzanne Archer Double – Faced Character Two from the Mistaken Identity Series 2021 various scrap papers, acrylic (possibly some oil paint) 78 x 41 x 41cm photo Silversalt
Amber Wallis has won the inaugural Wollumbin Art Award at Tweed Regional Gallery for her painting ‘Ivy with eyes’ exhibited by the gallery at Sydney Contemporary 2022. . Judge Alison Kubler, curator and editor of VAULT magazine commented “This is such a richly complex painting; it melds figuration, abstraction, and portraiture. I love the atmospheric palette and how she has depicted her beautiful daughter. It’s deeply personal. A cautious sharing of herself”. . In addition to the $15,000 award, Wallis also receives a two-week residency at the Gallery’s Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio.
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: Eleanor Louise Butt 15 September 2022 | Kirsty Francis SHARE “. . . to me they look the way life feels – swirling, chaotic, sunlight flickering, tensions pulling and pushing, in some sort of dance.” Bold compositional lines and forms, gestural marks, a rich golden colour palette, and a textured materiality that springs from the fibrous weave of linen and jute canvas layered with lashings of oil paint emote a transformative dance across the painterly works of Melbourne-based artist Eleanor Louise Butt. In this interview, the artist enlightens our interest in her artistic practice, life in the studio,…