17 December 2024
Congratulations to Victoria Reichelt who has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award in Queensland Regional Art Awards for her work ‘Focus 4’. This award commends landscape-based artwork (of any medium) and commemorates the founder of Flying Arts, Mervyn ‘Merv’ Moriarty OAM, who…
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10 December 2024
Congratulations to Natasha Bieniek whose 2016 portrait of Wendy Whiteley, has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The portrait, depicting Whiteley sitting in her garden in Lavender Bay, was awarded highly commended in the 2016 Archibald Prize. To read more about this artwork, please click…
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27 November 2024
Ben Quilty has been featured in the Weekend Australian Magazine, coinciding with his new solo exhibition, ’20 Years’ now open at Jan Murphy Gallery. In the article, Jane Albert discusses the premise of the exhibition and explores the stories and pivotal moments behind some of the key works presented.
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19 November 2024
Works by Amber Wallis and Lincoln Austin can be seen in the new exhibition at Ipswich Art Gallery,’Arriving Slowly’. The exhibition has been programmed to coincide with the loan of works by Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin and Gwyn Hanssen-Pigott, offered through the National Gallery of Australia’s ‘Sharing the National Collection/…
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6 November 2024
An interview with Ben Quilty is featured in the November/December issue of Art Guide Australia. In the article, writer Georgia Spain and Quilty discuss the artist’s thematic concerns about the future and the catharsis of his creative process. A survey of Quilty’s work will be presented in the forthcoming exhibition,…
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25 October 2024
Congratulations to Lucy Culliton, Jacqueline Hennessy and Victoria Reichelt who have been selected as finalists in the 2024 Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award. The biennial award, celebrates realistic portraiture by Australian artists in memory of artist, patron and avid supporter of the arts, Shirley Hannan. Selected works must accurately portray…
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23 October 2024
Host of the Talking with Painters podcast, Maria Stoljar, will join Robert Malherbe and Keith Burt in conversation at Tweed Regional Gallery on Friday, 25 October. Attendees to the artist talk can enjoy after-hours access to ‘A Dictionary for Painting’ exhibition in which Robert and Keith’s work is currently on…
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12 October 2024
Richard Lewer’s work has been selected as the 2024 Ann Bennett Acquisition for the Heide Museum of Modern Art. The works in the exhibition highlight personal missteps and social blunders, focusing on two particularly awkward encounters: one during his residency at McCahon House in New Zealand (Aotearoa) and another at…
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11 October 2024
Don’t miss the chance to hear Gerwyn Davies discuss his artistic practice this weekend at HOTA. Davies utilizes readymade and everyday materials to create characters through costumes that both conceal and transform the body. These stylised, striking and exaggerated transformations are not only visually captivating but also part of…
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24 September 2024
Work by Juz Kitson is currently on display in, ‘Kerameikos’, the new exhibition now open at the Chau Chau Wing Museum at the University of Sydney. This exhibition brings together the work of seven of Australia’s leading ceramic artists who have created new pieces and a ‘contemporary potters’ quarter’, following…
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