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Guy Maestri is one of 16 Australian and New Zealand artists involved in an exhibition commemorating the ANZAC legend and the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign. Your Friend the Enemy, concurrently exhibited at S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney and the ANU Drill Hall in Canberra during April and May will later tour to Bathurst and Auckland. […]

  Jan Murphy Gallery’s current exhibition, Black Gold, by NSW based artist Guy Maestri is featured in the local publication, Brisbane News, Issue 1019, 4 – 10 March 2015. Please click here to read the insightful article by local writer, Phil Brown.

Guy Maestri’s exhibition ‘Black Gold’ will open at the gallery on Tuesday 24 February, and remains current until 21 March 2015. It will be the artist’s debut solo exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery. Please email us if you are interested in previewing the exhibition. Image credit: Guy Maestri, black gold #5, 2015, oil on linen, 61 x 51cm. […]

Black gold is Guy Maestri’s first solo exhibition in Queensland. Having recently joined Jan Murphy Gallery’s stable of represented artists, the NSW based artist is known for his skill in plein air painting and the connection he has with the landscape surrounding Broken Hill, Hill End and Wilcannia. In developing work for this exhibition, Maestri spent time in […]

Another reason to visit our nations capital, Natasha Bieniek is exhibiting at the National Portrait Gallery as part of ‘In the Flesh’ exhibition featuring other prominent artists including Ron Meuck, Patricia Piccinini and Sam Jinks. Current until 9 March, 2015. For more information, please click here.

We are looking forward to seeing Alex Seton’s work ‘As of Today’, installed in it’s permanent home. From the 12th of December, this piece together with Ben Quilty’s ‘After Afghanistan’ exhibition, will be on display at the Australian War Memorial.

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 the 25th of November we will be featuring one significant new work from an artist at 12pm every business day of the campaign leading up to Christmas. […]

Monica Rohan is currently the Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence at the Tweed River Art Gallery, here is a photo of her working away in the studio.

Ben Quilty and Robert Malherbe have donated works to the ABC Mental As online art auction, which is raising funds for mental health research. The auction goes live today and finishes on Sunday the 12th of October. There are 10 paintings in all with some fantastic artists on board. For more information, please click here.

Habitus Living have covered a great review of our recent exhibition ‘Hill End’ which featured the work by Guy Maestri, Robert Malherbe and Luke Sciberras. To read more, please click here.

Jan Murphy Gallery is thrilled to announce that we are now representing the very talented Guy Maestri. His first solo exhibition is scheduled for February 2015. Welcome Guido!

Congratulations to Monica Rohan on being selected as a finalist for the Redland Art Award 2014.

Congratulations to Robert Malherbe who has been named a finalist in the Redland Art Awards for 2014. See Robert’s work in our exhibition: Hill End current until the 6th of September.

Congratulations to A.J. Taylor on being listed as a finalist in the 2014 John Leslie Art Prize for his work, Hawkesbury 9. For more information, please click here. Image Credit: A.J. Taylor, Hawkesbury 9, 2013, oil on board, 183 x 183 cm

Art Almanac have covered our forthcoming exhibition ‘Hill End’, featuring Guy Maestri, Robert Malherbe and Luke Sciberras. In the article, A.J. Edwards writes: “Curated by Ben Quilty, Jan Murphy Gallery is presenting these works which were painted en plein air by this tight knit group. Hill End has an artistic link to such great artists […]

Michael Muir has been announced as the winner of the 2014 Mosman Art Prize with his painting ‘Past the Stacks’. To read more about the Mosman Art Prize, please click here. Image Credit: Michael Muir, Past the Stacks, 2014, oil on linen, 137.0 x 122.0 cm

Heidi Yardley’s portrait of fellow JMG artist, Julia deVille, was spoken about by John McDonald in his recent Sydney Morning Herald review on the 2014 Archibald Prize.

Congratulations to Victoria Reichelt who has been selected as a finalist in the 2014 Geelong Art Prize. Image credit: Victoria Reichelt, Flood, 2014, oil on linen, 95 x 70 cm

Heidi Yardley features in the August 2014 edition of Real Living. The article highlights Heidi and her partner Ben’s living and creative space in Melbourne. To read the article, please click here.

Congratulations to all finalists in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. The following are represented by Jan Murphy Gallery: Jason Benjamin with his work ‘I just want to dream’, Natasha Bieniek with her work ‘Isola’, Heidi Yardley with her works ‘Julia deVille’ and ‘Antipodean dream’, Robert Malherbe for his work ‘The Domain after a storm’ and Michael […]