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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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Robert Malherbe at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery

Robert Malherbe is included in a group exhibition of artists who have spent time in residency at the Jamberoo property of the late Bert Flugelman. The exhibition is being held at the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery in Nowra, NSW. With the surrounding flora and fauna as inspiration during their time spent…
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Linde Ivimey at National Portrait Gallery

Linde Ivimey features in the group exhibition, ‘So Fine – Contemporary women artists make Australian history’, at the National Portrait Gallery. Forming part of the National Portrait Gallery’s twentieth birthday celebrations, the exhibition features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history.
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Adam Pyett in Artist Profile

Adam Pyett features in Artist Profile, Issue 43, in an interview with Bridget Macleod. The article explores Pyett’s painting practice, both in terms of concept and his painting process. Adam Pyett will hold his first exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery from 30 October – 15 December 2018.
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Ben Quilty at Bendigo Art Gallery

Ben Quilty’s work features in a new display at the Bendigo Art Gallery. The new exhibition includes several new acquisitions to the Bendigo Art Gallery Collection as well as significant works on loan. Quilty’s work, Kuta Rorschach No. 2 2013, was acquired by the Bendigo Art Gallery Collection in 2014.
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Art of Music 2018

Art of Music is a fundraiser event presented by musician Jenny Morris with proceeds going to the charity organisation, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. Held every two years, a group of Australia’s top artists come together to create an original exhibition where each artist chooses an iconic Australian/NZ song to inspire a…
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