16 December 2021
This summer, visitors to the Maitland Regional Art Gallery can see work by Richard Lewer in the new group exhibition ‘Storylines’. Curated by Todd Fuller and Lisa Woolfe, ‘Storylines’ brings together work by six artists that use drawing to unpack, challenge and question the way we understand Australia’s history. ‘Storylines’…
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16 December 2021
Victoria Reichelt’s work can be seen in the new group exhibition, ‘Telling Tales’, now open at Glen Eira City Council Gallery. Curated by Diane Soumilas, this exhibition explores art’s fascination and preoccupation with storytelling and the literary world. Incorporating a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, photography, video and collage,…
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16 December 2021
Guido Maestri’s exhibition, ‘Stories from Homedale – Guido Maestri’ is now showing at the newly opened Mudgee Arts Precinct, in regional NSW. For the last year Guido has travelled back to his hometown of Mudgee to create a series of dynamic landscape paintings that are imbued with a connection to…
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15 December 2021
A new body of work by Gerwyn Davies is now on display in ‘Iridescent’ at the Museum of Sydney. The exhibition features 12 large scale photographs with Davies responding to and reimagining the museums, archives, historic houses and gardens under the care of Sydney Living Museums and NSW State Archives. ‘Iridescent’ Museum of Sydney…
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15 December 2021
A new exhibition featuring works by Ben Quilty is now open at Tweed Regional Gallery. ‘At Home – Margaret Olley & Ben Quilty’ presents a collection of recent works by Quilty alongside some of Margaret Olley’s late-career still life and interior paintings. In 2020, Quilty like so many artists, was…
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3 November 2021
Congratulations to Laura Patterson who is a finalist in the 2021 Hawkesbury Art Prize with her work, ‘Ballanjui fern specimens’. Established in 2011, the Hawkesbury Art Prize is a non-acquisitive art award that celebrates and promotes art in the Hawkesbury/Western Sydney region of NSW. The prize is awarded to a…
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22 October 2021
Congratulations to Victoria Reichelt who has been announced as a finalist in the 2021 Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize with her work, ‘Self Portrait as Parent’. Named in memory of artist Portia Geach, this prestigious prize celebrates excellence in portraiture painting by Australian women artists. Describing her painting, Victoria notes…
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22 October 2021
Congratulations to Jacqueline Hennessy who has been announced as a finalist in the 2021 Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize with her work, ‘Untitled (what happens to the heart)’. Named in memory of artist Portia Geach, this prestigious prize celebrates excellence in portraiture painting by Australian women artists. Winners will be…
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20 October 2021
Victoria Reichelt’s work, ‘Corrugated Horror’, has been included in the new group exhibition at Warrnambool Art Gallery, ‘Black & Gold’. Bringing together works from both private collections and the Warrnambool Art Gallery collection, this exhibition references the symbolism of the consumer world and questions how we perceive value through the…
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14 October 2021
Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to announce India Mark as the newest addition to the protégé program. Working predominately in still life, India Mark’s paintings analyse composition, light and the textural qualities of ordinary objects. Working tonally and from life, Mark gently prods the tension points between visual depth and…
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7 October 2021
Works by a selection of finalists from the 2021 Archibald Prize, will be on display as part of the Archibald Prize 2021 regional tour. Portraits by Jan Murphy Gallery represented artists Natasha Bieniek, Keith Burt, Lucy Culliton and Richard Lewer were included in this year’s prize. The regional tour commences…
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7 October 2021
Congratulations to Louise Tate who has been announced as a finalist in the 2021 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize with her work, ‘Warmer weather’. Held every 2 years, this coveted prize celebrates excellence in contemporary painting and attracts entries from across Australia. The winner will be announced 19 November and…
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7 October 2021
To celebrate the Robert Malherbe’s 2021 exhibition, ‘Feeling is everything’, Artist Profile have re-shared an essay about the artist first published in issue 37 (2017). In the article, writer Judith Pugh discusses the artist’s beginnings in animation, his travels through Europe, creative process and eventual movement into full-time painting.
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6 October 2021
Gain rare insights into Lucy Culliton’s creative practice in a lively online conversation with Marie Stoljar, host of Talking with Painters. The Artist Speaks live series will delve into the stories behind Lucy’s incredible entries in the Archibald, Sulman and Wynne Prizes over the last decade, and offers attendees a…
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2 October 2021
An article about Richard Lewer has been featured in Art Toi Magazine, is now viewable online. Emily Cormack’s feature article explores Lewer’s work and his fascination with the world of coded practices and personal exposure. Cormack writes that “The desire to connect with others through his own misfortune or discomfiture…
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