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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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An Artist’s Home Bursting With Her Own Beautiful Golden-Toned Paintings STUDIO VISIT If Eleanor Louise Butt’s expressive paintings look familiar, it’s because the artist has already made her colourful mark on the local and international art scene. We featured Eleanor back in 2020, (when she was on residency in Cornwall, UK!) but you might also recognise her signature abstract strokes and use of yellow hues from the beautiful mural in Melbourne’s HER Bar! More recently though, Eleanor has been holed up at her home and studio amongst the forest of the Dandenong Ranges, filling her house with canvases for her new exhibition, ‘All that which sings’.…
Taking place at Carriageworks from Wednesday 8 to Sunday 11 September, 2022, the 6th iteration of Sydney Contemporary promises an exciting four days of art, events and culinary experiences. Showcasing over 450 artists from more than 90 galleries, the fair is the perfect place to discover and collect modern and contemporary art. Ahead of the opening, VAULTEditor, Alison Kubler surveyed the presentations of all the participating galleries that together have transformed the expansive venue of Carriageworks into an incredibly vibrant and stimulating space. To introduce you to some of the specific artists and presentations featured at Sydney Contemporary, Alison has…
nicholasthompsongallery . Amber Wallis is featured in current issue 60 of Artist Profile. Article by Brooke Boland . Nicholas Thompson Gallery will present a solo exhibition of Amber Wallis’ paintings at Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks from 8 to 11 September . Contact gallery for exhibition preview 📨 . ‘Wallis is keenly interested in domestic space, particularly women in domestic space. She says the structure of her work represents the past but also her domestic present since becoming a mother, considering the mundanity and ordinariness of daily life and how fantasy can lift you out of it. “I’m always interested in that…
The Paul Guest Prize is an award and exhibition held biennially that highlights contemporary drawing practice in Australia. The Prize was initiated by former Family Court Judge and Olympic rower, The Honourable Paul Guest OAM QC and encourages artists from across Australia to engage with the important medium of drawing in contemporary art practice. The Prize is a non-acquisitive cash award of $15,000. ‘My abiding and passionate interest in art commenced several decades ago and from those early beginnings I was introduced to contemporary art in a holistic way which ran parallel to my professional career. I appreciate that the…
‘Abstract artist James Drinkwater was so moved by William Dobell’s painting “Storm Approaching Wangi” that he painted his own version and created a ballet. It will be performed at Lake Macquarie’s MAP Mima in November. What does a ballet inspired by an artwork look and sound like? The ABC’s Dan Cox needed to know more so he visited Drinkwater’s studio.’ . 🎧 https://www.abc.net.au/newcastle/programs/breakfast/james-drinkwater/13944088
Episode 111- Suzanne Archer the ultimate artist of elimination and addition with an awesome 50 year art career. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-111-suzanne-archer-the-ultimate-artist/id1503610662?i=1000565554442
In 1965, British-born Suzanne Archer, aged 19 and just out of art school, migrated to Australia. Four years later she had her first solo show at Sydney’s Clune Gallery accompanied by a media blitz from newspapers, radio and television. “(The show) was a hit and I think partially some of the interest might have been because I was a woman ironically,” Archer has said. As part of the media’s coverage, she recalls being told by a female photographer to sit on a chair, pull her skirt up, and cross her legs. “Certainly, the photographs and the advertising for the show…
