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Fred Fowler in Artbank Collection

Fred Fowler’s work, Assimilation (Join, or Die) 2018, has been acquired by Artbank. The painting was first exhibited in Fowler’s recent solo exhibition, Home / Visitors. For more information on Artbank, please click here. Image credit: Fred Fowler, Assimilation (Join, or Die), 2018, oil paint…
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Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2018

Monica Rohan is a finalist for the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2018 and was highly commended for her work. Celebrating its 20th year in 2018, the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship is a scholarship for young Australian painters and consists of $40,000 and a three-month residency at the Cité…
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‘Gothic Beauty’ at Bendigo Art Gallery

Juz Kitson features in a group exhibition, Gothic Beauty: Victorian notions of love, loss and spirituality, at Bendigo Art Gallery. The exhibition traces the Victorian gothic into contemporary art, bringing together the work of a variety of artists who explore these ideas. Gothic Beauty: Victorian notions…
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Ben Quilty Major Survey Exhibition

Developed by the Art Gallery of South Australia and curated by Co-Acting Director Lisa Slade, a major survey exhibition of the work of
 Ben Quilty, Quilty, will be unveiled in 
Adelaide from March 2019, before a year of touring to the state galleries in Queensland and New South Wales. A…
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2018 John Leslie Art Prize

Jason Benjamin, Natasha Bieniek, Adam Pyett and A.J. Taylor have all been selected as finalists for the 2018 John Leslie Art Prize at the Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale, Victoria. The acquisitive prize awards $20,000 to the best landscape painting with the winner to be announced by Wellington Shire Council…
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Martin Smith PhD Exhibition at POP Gallery

A solo exhibition by Martin Smith is being held at the newly relocated POP Gallery in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. The exhibition, The Narrated Self, showcases Smith’s photographs that include excised texts of short personal stories. The Narrated Self POP Gallery…
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Ben Quilty ‘Home’ Publication

Ben Quilty has released a new book titled Home: Drawings by Syrian Children. The publication features a collection of drawings by Syrian children reflecting on their forsaken homeland, with a foreword penned by Richard Flanagan. Home: Drawings by Syrian Children Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia, 2018 Soft cover, 304 pp, fully…
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Lucy Culliton in Art Collector

Lucy Culliton features in the Melbourne Art Fair 2018 Special Edition of Art Collector. In an interview with Helen McKenzie, Culliton discusses the garden scenes and still lifes that form her solo exhibition with Jan Murphy Gallery at Melbourne Art Fair 2018. To read the article,…
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Heidi Yardley in Brisbane News

Heidi Yardley’s solo exhibition, Drifters, has been featured in an article by Phil Brown for Brisbane News, which explores how Yardley’s investigation into the countercultural era of the 1960s and 70s has influenced her most recent body of work. To read the article, please click here.
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Fred Fowler in The Design Files

Fred Fowler’s first Jan Murphy Gallery solo exhibition, Home / Visitors has been featured by The Design Files. In an interview with Elle Murrell, Fowler discusses the inspiration behind this newest body of work. Fred Fowler Home / Visitors 26 June – 21 July 2018…
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Fred Fowler in The Courier Mail

Fred Fowler features in The Courier Mail’s ‘U on Sunday’ section. In the article, writer Fiona Purdon explains how a trip to Stradbroke Island became the starting point of inspiration for Fowler’s first Jan Murphy Gallery solo exhibition, Home / Visitors. Fred Fowler Home / Visitors 26 June…
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Claudia Greathead at Metro Arts

A new solo exhibition, Wanblut, by Protégé artist Claudia Greathead is currently on display at Metro Arts in Brisbane. Wanblut features paintings and sculptures by Greathead and continues her investigation into familial relationships. Wanblut Metro Arts 13 –…
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Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2018

Jason Benjamin, Gerwyn Davies, Danie Mellor, Monica Rohan and A.J. Taylor are finalists for the Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2018 at the Caloundra Regional Gallery. The annual prize offers an acquisitive major prize of $25,000 with the winning work acquired by the Sunshine Coast Art Collection. The winner will be…
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Gerwyn Davies – ‘Idols’ Online Exhibition

Idols is a new online exhibition by Gerwyn Davies which reanimates popular iconography and myth through an assemblage of costume, performance and photography. Conjuring characters across the political, religious and historic, this work is interested in familiar narratives that are highly contrived in nature. Davies recently held a solo…
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Tjala Arts – ‘Seven Sisters’ Exhibition

Jan Murphy Gallery presents an exhibition featuring artworks from the acclaimed Tjala Arts centre in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. In a first for both organisations, the exhibition solely focuses on artists from Tjala Arts, providing a platform for their works in Queensland. Seven Sisters features new works by the…
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