March 21, 2026
Congratulations to Natasha Bieniek and Adam Pyett who are finalists in the 2026 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize with their works, ‘Dapple’ and ‘Boulders, Cobaw State Forest, pink’. Celebrating contemporary painting, this award showcases the breadth and diversity of painting in Australia today. The winners will be announced at the exhibition…
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March 4, 2023
Work by Adam Pyett will be featured in the forthcoming exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery, ‘Australiana: Designing a Nation’. Curated by Bendigo Art Gallery in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, this exhibition showcases the work of over 200 artists and designers. Spanning a multitude of media, visitors to…
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February 18, 2022
Congratulations to Adam Pyett who is a finalist in the 2022 Len Fox Painting Prize. This biennial acquisitive prize aims to recognise and celebrate the work of Australian artists whose work has a strong engagement with colour and light, connections with international developments in art and connections with cultures of…
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July 1, 2021
Adam Pyett has been featured in a new web series produced by the NGV. The series explores the work of Australian contemporary artists whose practice has been shaped by the Australian landscape taking inspiration from the exhibition, ‘She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism’ now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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October 17, 2020
Adam Pyett will be featured in the forthcoming group exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery, ‘Margaret’s House’. This exhibition will present key works by Margaret Olley alongside new paintings by Adam Pyett, Nicholas Harding and Pam Tippett. The artists were invited to explore the re-creation of the Margaret Olley’s home studio…
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April 16, 2020
Congratulations to Adam Pyett and A.J. Taylor who have been announced as finalists in the 2020 John Leslie Art Prize. The John Leslie Prize is a biennial award for landscape painting with a top prize of $20,000. The winning artwork will be acquired for the Gippsland Art Gallery’s permanent collection.
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December 20, 2018
Adam Pyett’s painting, Afternoon light in the You Yangs 2018, has been acquired by the Geelong Gallery Collection. The work was first exhibited as part of Pyett’s inaugural exhibition with Jan Murphy Gallery in November 2018. For more information on the Geelong Gallery Collection, please click…
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August 22, 2018
Jason Benjamin, Natasha Bieniek, Adam Pyett and A.J. Taylor have all been selected as finalists for the 2018 John Leslie Art Prize at the Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale, Victoria. The acquisitive prize awards $20,000 to the best landscape painting with the winner to be announced by Wellington Shire Council…
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June 1, 2018
Adam Pyett features in Artist Profile, Issue 43, in an interview with Bridget Macleod. The article explores Pyett’s painting practice, both in terms of concept and his painting process. Adam Pyett will hold his first exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery from 30 October – 15 December 2018.
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December 15, 2017
We are delighted to welcome Adam Pyett to the gallery and look forward to working with him in the future. There is a tough structure and playful approach to still life that underpins Adam Pyett’s paintings. An early interest in abstraction remains evident across his now recognisable subject…
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December 10, 2017
Juz Kitson, Adam Pyett, Monica Rohan and Heidi Yardley will feature in the inaugural exhibition, Imagine, at the new Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale, Victoria. Curated by Simon Gregg, Imagine showcases the capacity of human imagination through 134 works from 81 artists from around the globe spanning five centuries of…
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