August 25, 2025
Davies’ painting ‘Built Landscape I’ is currently featured in a collection exhibition curated by Christine Vendredi at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California, alongside works by Louise Bourgeois, Mark Bradford, Marina Abramović, and Ellsworth Kelly. This work was acquired by PSAM in 2017. ‘Constructed realities’ opens in…
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August 22, 2025
Congratulations to Paul Davies who is a finalist in the 2025 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize with ‘Untitled’. Established in 2001, this acquisitive award recognises excellence, creativity and innovation in the medium and awards a major cash prize of $25,000. This year’s award will be judged by Sanné Mestrom (artist and…
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August 15, 2025
Paul Davies’ upcoming exhibition ‘Constructed realities’ is the focus of an insightful article in today’s Financial Review by David Meagher, who visited the artist’s studio to discuss the inspiration behind the series, which introduces a new building typology to his works – the classic Queenslander. ‘There’s a dream-like intensity to…
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March 11, 2023
Visitors to HOTA gallery can see work by Paul Davies in the new group exhibition, ‘Lost in Palm Springs’. Curated by Dr Greer Honeywell, this multidisciplinary exhibition delves into the magical qualities of the landscape and mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, California. Presented in the exhibition is work by…
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February 24, 2023
Paul Davies is featured in the latest Australian Financial Review Magazine. In the article by Matthew Drummond, Davies discusses his impressive career including recently being acquired by the prestigious Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Ahead of his solo exhibition with the gallery in December, works by Paul Davies can be…
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February 24, 2023
Work by David Griggs will be featured in the forthcoming exhibition at QAGOMA, ‘Lies, Magicians and Blind Faith’, which focuses on the dynamic relationship between Australian and Filipino artists throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Central to the exhibition is Griggs’ 2008 installation-based work, ‘Frog boy’s dissertation into a new karaoke…
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December 16, 2022
Jan Murphy Gallery will be closed for our annual summer break from 23 December – 31 January 2023. From all of us at the gallery, we wish you a safe and happy holiday season. Over the summer, you can see a number of our artists featured in exhibitions across the…
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September 22, 2022
David Griggs will join Maria Stoljar (from Talking with Painters) for an in conversation event at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Wednesday, 28 September. The eight times Archibald Prize finalist will discuss his energetic paintings that tap into the raw undercurrents of society and human conditions. Artists…
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July 9, 2022
David Griggs has painted a mural alongside new paintings featured in the recently opened group exhibition,‘Nationalism in the Wake of COVID’ at Macquarie University Art Gallery. The exhibition explores the dialectic between nationalism, localism and internationalism within the context of the global pandemic and the signals that drove nation state…
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May 28, 2022
Artwork by the Ken Sisters Collaborative is currently on display in the new group exhibition, ‘Lyon Collection Exh. #5’, at the Lyon Housemuseum, Melbourne. ‘Kungkarangkalpa tjukurpa (Seven Sisters 472 – 21)’ by the Ken Sisters Collaborative is presented alongside a selection of recently acquired works from the Lyon Housemuseum’s permanent…
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May 6, 2022
Congratulations to Tjungkara Ken and Yaritji Young whose collaborative work has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2022 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards. This annual award presents the diversity of contemporary indigenous art, celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices nationwide within the visual arts. The major…
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June 9, 2021
Tjungkara Ken’s 2017 Archibald Prize entry, Kungkarangkalpa tjukurpa (Seven Sisters dreaming), is featured in Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. “Arranged thematically, Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize unearths fascinating stories behind more than 100 artworks carefully selected from…
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June 4, 2021
Congratulations to Tjungkara Kanytjupai Ken who has been announced as the winner of Roberts Family Prize 2021 with her work ‘Seven Sisters’. The Roberts Family Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Prize is an annual prize of $10,000 awarded to an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander artist for their work entered…
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May 30, 2019
Tjungkara Ken is a finalist in the Wynne Prize 2019 with her work Seven Sisters. Showing her work alongside fellow Tjala Arts painter, Sylvia Ken, Tjungkara’s work depicts the Seven Sisters story involving the sisters being chased across country by Wati Nyiru (a bad man). Tjungkara Ken’s work will also…
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November 23, 2016
12 Days, 12 Artists, 12 Artworks In the spirit of Christmas and in the tradition of the Advent calendar, we invite you to view twelve works by twelve artists over twelve days. From Tuesday 29 November, we will be featuring one significant new work from an artist at 12pm (AEST).
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