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Robert Malherbe features in the group exhibition, Interiors, at Orange Regional Gallery. Curated by Gavin Wilson, Interiors investigates the idea that we are shaped by the spaces around us. The exhibition includes work by a select group of modernist and contemporary artists, including Brett Whiteley, Margaret Olley, Cressida Campbell, Grace Cossington Smith and Peter Godwin. Interiors […]

Artwork by James Guppy has been reproduced for a large-scale projection on the front of Australian Parliament House in Canberra. Presented as part of the Enlighten Festival, the projection of Guppy’s Red Poppy, 2005 pays tribute to the centenary of the ANZAC’s in 2017 and the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, which will occur on […]

Guido Maestri’s upcoming solo exhibition, On Painting, has been featured in Art Guide Australia’s March/April issue in an article by Tracey Clement. The exhibition will commence from 27 March 2018. To read the article, please click here. Image credit: Guido Maestri, Pointillist self-portrait, 2018, oil on linen, 61.0 x 51.0 cm

Juz Kitson features in a collection exhibition at the Shepparton Art Museum. Intimate Realities: Recent Works from the SAM Collection features sculpture, video, photography, printmaking, painting and ceramics by leading contemporary artists and evokes the uncanny and surreal. Kitson’s work ‘It’s all embracing boundless-ness, no II’ 2015–2016 was first exhibited at Jan Murphy Gallery in 2016 […]

Linde Ivimey features in a group exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra. The Gift: Art, Artefacts, and Arrivals explores the notion of migration as a gift, both to those seeking a new home, and to the accepting nation. The four exhibiting contemporary artists, Linde Ivimey, Heddy Ritterman, Louise […]

Artist Lucy Culliton has been honoured with a survey exhibition at the New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM) in Armidale NSW. Caution Wet Paint sees 30 years of Culliton’s career on display, ranging from her early drawings through to more recent large-scale oil paintings. Caution Wet Paint NERAM 17 February – 29 April 2018 For more […]

Juz Kitson features in Chaos and Order, 120 years of collecting at RMIT, a survey exhibition of the RMIT Art Collection curated by Jon Buckingham, Collections Coordinator at RMIT Gallery. Exploring the contradictions inherent in public art collections this survey embraces the challenges faced in acquiring works adhering to strict criteria, and the serendipitous acquisitions […]

We are excited to announce the launch of the Protégé Page on our website. Protégé extends representation to a selected number of young and emerging artists on the basis of their achievements and the potential in their developing practices. The Protégé list is fluid, so please visit this page on our website for regular updates. […]

Michael Muir is a finalist in the Muswellbrook Art Prize 2018 for his work ‘Hidden in the summer’ 2018. This year’s prize will be judged by Tracey Cooper-Lavery, Gallery Director, HOTA Gallery. The Muswellbrook Art Prize offers a non-acquisitive $50,000 painting prize, which is awarded on the opening night, Saturday 10 March. Muswellbrook Art Prize […]

Monica Rohan and Rhys Lee feature in Art Collector’s ’50 Things Collectors Need to Know 2018’ issue (Jan-Mar). The inaugural issue for 2018 also features Jan Murphy Gallery in an article about promoting art online. For more information, please click here. Image credit: Monica Rohan, This time maybe, 2017, oil on board, 80.0 x 61.0 cm

Ben Quilty features in group exhibition, All We Can’t See: Illustrating the Nauru Files, at Yellow House Sydney. Focused on the Nauru Files published by The Guardian in August 2016, which leaked incident reports by staff of Nauru’s detention centres occurring between 2013–15, the exhibition sees 30 of Australia’s leading contemporary artists illustrate the files […]

Verso is a curated online platform that publishes texts from contemporary artists, writers and curators.  Having recently completed a three-month residency at NARS Foundation in New York in late 2017, Martin Smith’s series of written reflections and photographs have been published online by Verso. These reflections offer a fantastic insight into the artist’s experience during […]

Juz Kitson is a finalist for the Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture 2018 with her work, ‘Flesh tones of carnation. The continuum of life’ 2017. The 2018 finalists for the biennial prize will be judged by Dr Felicity Fenner, Director of UNSW Galleries and faculty member of UNSW School of Art and Design; Professor Richard […]

We are delighted to welcome Fred Fowler to the gallery and look forward to working with him in the future. Fred Fowler’s distinctive paintings are landscapes ­– physical, cultural or psychological – that expose the hidden and imaginary, described as wormholes or portals to alternative realities. He uses abstraction to eliminate background noise and convey […]

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 matter with strong compositional elements and tightly […]

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 creation. Imagine Gippsland Art Gallery […]

Ben Quilty features as one of more than 100 artists from 32 countries for the inaugural NGV Triennial, which surveys the world’s best art and design, across cultures, scales, geographies and perspectives. Quilty’s featured work will be High Tide Mark 2016, a recent acquisition for the NGV collection. The painting depicts a single life vest, […]

Juz Kitson’s work, ‘Founded on the belief that there is order.’ 2017, has been acquired by the RMIT University Art Collection. The work was first exhibited as part of Kitson’s Primordial Pure exhibition at Sydney Contemporary 2017. For more information about the RMIT University Art Collection, please click here. Image credit: Juz Kitson, Founded on the belief […]

Martin Smith will undertake a residency in Brooklyn, New York with the NARS Foundation (New York Artist Residency and Studios). The project is supported by the Australia Council and Arts Queensland and will see Smith at NARS from 1 October – 22 December 2017. An exhibition of artists in residency during this period will be […]

Marina Strocchi and Heidi Yardley are finalists in the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award 2017. The Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA) is a national still life painting award that offers a non-acquisitive first prize of $20,000. The 2017 award will again be judged by John McDonald, who has been principal judge since the awards […]