7 February 2018
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…
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5 February 2018
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…
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3 February 2018
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…
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15 December 2017
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…
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10 December 2017
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…
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10 December 2017
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…
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7 December 2017
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…
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13 October 2017
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…
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13 October 2017
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…
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13 October 2017
Go Figure: Works from the collection presents a selection of works at the Tweed Regional Gallery that showcase dynamic representations of the human figure and features work by Natasha Bieniek, Guido Maestri, Ben Quilty, Monica Rohan and others. Go Figure: Works from the collection Tweed Regional Gallery…
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12 October 2017
Lucy Culliton’s current exhibition, Bibbenluke Menagerie, has been featured in an article by Fiona Purdon in the latest issue of Brisbane News. To read the article, please click here. To view the exhibition online, please click here. To…
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1 September 2017
Natasha Bieniek’s Melbourne studio has been explored in an article by Art Guide Australia, with the artist discussing studio life with writer, Varia Karipoff. To read the article, please click here. Image credit: Natasha Bieniek, Blanche, 2016, oil on dibond, 9.0 x 14.0 cm
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8 July 2017
Guido Maestri is a finalist in the inaugural Hadley’s Art Prize in Hobart, Tasmania. The 2017 theme for the acquisitive landscape prize is ‘History and Place’ for the best portrayal of the Australian landscape which acknowledges the past. Maestri was selected for his work, ‘Governor’s ravages’ 2017 which references the…
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20 June 2017
In January 2016, Ben Quilty and acclaimed Australian author, Richard Flanagan, travelled to Lebanon, Greece and Serbia as guests of World Vision. On this journey, they followed “the river that is the great exodus of our age: that of Syrian refugees.” The consequent publication, Notes on an Exodus, bears witness…
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2 May 2017
Night Letters is a new series of intimately scaled oil paintings by Heidi Yardley. The work forges a romantic and mysterious link between the female figure and evening landscapes. Both exist in a liminal, erotic space, as if somewhere between waking and sleeping. Moonlight is seductive as it reflects off…
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