5 September 2020
Heidi Yardley has been announced as a finalist in the 2020 Paul Guest Prize with her work ‘Always the same ghost’. Held biannually at Bendigo Art Gallery, this award celebrates contemporary drawing, attracting entries from all over Australia. This year’s prize will be judged by Lesley Harding, Artistic Director of…
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3 September 2020
An interview with Juz Kitson has been featured in the Sept-Oct edition of Artguide. Writer Tiarney Miekus discusses Kitson’s installation-based works, how they are developed and the themes driving the artist’s practice. Touching on her current exhibition, Kitson notes, “My latest exhibition, The Future is your Ocean Oyster, reveals a…
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27 August 2020
Congratulations to Monica Rohan who is a finalist in the 2020 Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting with her work ‘A bit much’. This non-acquisitive prize celebrates excellence and innovation in the watercolour medium and boasts a major prize of $20,000. Shortlisted finalists will have their entries exhibited…
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20 August 2020
Congratulations to Heidi Yardley and Marina Strocchi who have been both announced as finalists in the 2020 National Works on Paper Prize. Heidi Yardley entered ‘Strangers to ourselves’ and Marina Strocchi ‘The Escarpment – Kangaroo Valley V’. With a long history, this prize attracts leading artists from across Australia working…
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30 June 2020
Monica Rohan’s 2016 work, ‘Head up shoulders back’, is featured in a new exhibition, Redland Art Awards: Works Acquired 2006 – 2018, at Redland Art Gallery. During the recent temporary closure of the Redland Art Gallery, this year’s awards were unfortunately cancelled. But with the gallery having now re-opened, Redland Art…
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30 June 2020
Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to announce Jacqueline Hennessy as the newest addition to the protégé program. The Sydney-based artist references photographic images of her own body to create paintings of ghostly, female figures. Produced through a dedicated process of applying layer upon layer of sepia-toned paint, Hennessy creates a…
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30 June 2020
Juz Kitson recently participated in the NAS Art Forum series. Art Forum is a weekly lecture program where invited guests present talks on their curatorial, artistic and research projects to all members of the National Art School staff and student communities. Kitson’s work was also recently featured and profiled in…
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20 December 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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20 December 2018
Congratulations to Michael Muir, whose work, Hidden in the summer 2018, has been acquired by the Parliament House Art Collection in Canberra. For more information on the Parliament House Art Collection, please click here. Image credit: Michael Muir, Hidden in the summer, 2018, oil on linen,…
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14 December 2018
A.J. Taylor has been voted the winner of the John Leslie Art Prize 2018 People’s Choice Award at Gippsland Art Gallery. From more than 60 finalists, visitors to the exhibition selected Taylor’s work, ‘Forest ground, early light’ 2018.
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