VIRGINIA CUPPAIDGE SURVEY EXHIBITION ‘THE NATURE OF ABSTRACTION’ CURRENT AT NEWCASTLE ART GALLERY TO 21 JULY 2019⁣⁣⁣⁣

By Nicholas Thompson | May 5, 2019 | Comments Off on VIRGINIA CUPPAIDGE SURVEY EXHIBITION ‘THE NATURE OF ABSTRACTION’ CURRENT AT NEWCASTLE ART GALLERY TO 21 JULY 2019⁣⁣⁣⁣

Virginia Cuppaidge is recognised as one of Australia’s foremost abstract painters. Her connections with Newcastle have been enduring and with this the recent donation of the geometric painting Saix 1974 to the Newcastle Art Gallery collection in 2018.

The exhibition is a survey of the last forty plus years work by the artist and maps the career of the one of Australia’s leading painters. The exhibition marks and celebrates Cuppaidge’s return to Australia after four decades in New York. This career survey brings together works from the Newcastle Art Gallery collection, key state and national collections and the artist’s own holdings from the period of 1972-2012, covering four distinct periods of her prodigious career including;

  • The Geometric series (1972-onwards)
  • Skyspace series (1980-1984)
  • The Nature of painting series (1980s-90s)
  • New York and Australia (1990s onwards)
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