6 November 2024
An interview with Ben Quilty is featured in the November/December issue of Art Guide Australia. In the article, writer Georgia Spain and Quilty discuss the artist’s thematic concerns about the future and the catharsis of his creative process. A survey of Quilty’s work will be presented in the forthcoming exhibition,…
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25 October 2024
Congratulations to Lucy Culliton, Jacqueline Hennessy and Victoria Reichelt who have been selected as finalists in the 2024 Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award. The biennial award, celebrates realistic portraiture by Australian artists in memory of artist, patron and avid supporter of the arts, Shirley Hannan. Selected works must accurately portray…
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23 October 2024
Host of the Talking with Painters podcast, Maria Stoljar, will join Robert Malherbe and Keith Burt in conversation at Tweed Regional Gallery on Friday, 25 October. Attendees to the artist talk can enjoy after-hours access to ‘A Dictionary for Painting’ exhibition in which Robert and Keith’s work is currently on…
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12 October 2024
Richard Lewer’s work has been selected as the 2024 Ann Bennett Acquisition for the Heide Museum of Modern Art. The works in the exhibition highlight personal missteps and social blunders, focusing on two particularly awkward encounters: one during his residency at McCahon House in New Zealand (Aotearoa) and another at…
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11 October 2024
Don’t miss the chance to hear Gerwyn Davies discuss his artistic practice this weekend at HOTA. Davies utilizes readymade and everyday materials to create characters through costumes that both conceal and transform the body. These stylised, striking and exaggerated transformations are not only visually captivating but also part of…
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24 September 2024
Work by Juz Kitson is currently on display in, ‘Kerameikos’, the new exhibition now open at the Chau Chau Wing Museum at the University of Sydney. This exhibition brings together the work of seven of Australia’s leading ceramic artists who have created new pieces and a ‘contemporary potters’ quarter’, following…
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10 September 2024
Congratulations to Amber Wallis who has been announced as a finalist in the 2024 Len Fox Painting Award. This acquisitive prize recognises the work of Australian artists demonstrating the qualities of E.P Fox including: international connections and travel, engagement with light and colour and the exploration of diverse cultures and…
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25 August 2024
The new exhibition, ‘A Dictionary for painting: Margaret Olley, Robert Malherbe and Keith Burt’ is now open at Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Centre. Keith Burt and Robert Malherbe recently spent a month in residence at the gallery where they created new paintings in response to objects from Olley’s…
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24 August 2024
Congratulations to Robert Malherbe who is a finalist in the 2024 Gosford Art Prize with his work, ‘Figure in a landscape 2’. Established in the 1970s, this award celebrates the work of artists working in the central coast region and beyond. Visitors to Gosford Regional Gallery can see Robert’s work…
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10 August 2024
Congratulations to A.J. Taylor who has been announced as a finalist in the 2024 John Leslie Art Prize. Established in 2000, the John Leslie Art Prize is a national, biennial prize for landscape painting, awarded by the Gippsland Art Gallery. John Leslie Art Prize Gippsland Art Gallery…
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3 August 2024
Congratulations to Laura Patterson who has been awarded the 2024 Residency Prize of the Hadley’s Art Prize! Congratulations also to Iluwanti Ken and Zaachariaha Fielding who received Honourable Mentions. The judges Tina Baum (Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of…
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20 July 2024
Congratulations to Keith Burt and Gerwyn Davies who have both been announced as finalists in this years Brisbane Portrait Prize, 2024. The Brisbane Portrait Prize celebrates the city of Brisbane/Meeanjin with all artists and sitters having a connection to the city. Brisbane Portrait Prize State Library of Queensland,…
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20 July 2024
Laura Jones, Guido Maestri and Ben Quilty are currently featured in the exhibition ‘New South: Recent painting from Southern Australia’ at Hazelhurst Arts Centre. The exhibition showcases the work and stories of a diverse group of painters from Southern Australia. For further information please visit the link in bio.
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20 July 2024
Juz Kitson is featured in the exhibition ‘XX’ at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery. ‘XX’ celebrates female ceramists and the power of the female touch in shaping this medium as a vessel for self-expression. The exhibition aims to challenge preconceived perspectives on this traditional art form, typically known for its functionality…
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20 July 2024
Celia Gullett ‘Shaping Colour’ exhibition has opened at South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA). “Celia Gullett has developed and honed her own, quietly distinct, form of minimal colourist painting. Working in a concurrent rather than sequential pattern, her experiments in surface, scale, light and form are unified by a…
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