Day: 27 July 2024

Steven Rendall: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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Steven Rendall has been shortlisted for the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. The official recipient announcement will be made on Friday 9 August. and an exhibition of the finalists’ works will open at Geelong Gallery on Saturday, 10 August.

In addition, Steven Rendall‘s work features alongside Dale Hickey‘s in the current exhibition Working Title: Studio Practice in the RMIT Art Collection at RMIT Gallery. Curated by Lisa Linton, the exhibition draws from the RMIT Art Collection to reveal notable academics, alumni, methods and collaborations and the rich history of studio practice at RMIT.

2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Vic
10 August – 3 November 2024

Working Title: Studio Practice in the RMIT Art Collection
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
until 27 July 2024

Dianne Jones: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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Dianne Jones‘ work is currently showing in two exhibitions at The Art Gallery of Western Austalia. The experiential exhibition Forecast invites audiences of all ages and abilities to pause, listen, feel, and connect with the world around us. AGWA’s Head of Learning and Creativity Research and the exhibition curator Lilly Blue, stated that “Forecast is about making connections with each other and our environment. It is about storytelling and sharing. It is a place to feel and reflect, and to be together.” The exhibition presents larger-than-life collaborative photomontage works by Dianne Jones and Eva Fernandez and explores First Nations understandings of environment as family, inviting reflection and deepening connection with our changing world.

Balancing Act features Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander works of art from the State Art Collection including two works from Dianne Jones’s 2017 series, The Grand Tour.

Balancing Act
The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
ongoing

Forecast
The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
until 1 February 2025

Euan Macleod: RACV Gallery

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Euan Macleod‘s work features in Low Tides, the current exhibition at RACV’s Melbourne City Gallery Lounge. The exhibition explores the contemplative nature of water and includes new work by RACV Collection artists.

Euan Macleod: Flux, an Orange Regional Gallery and ANU Drill Hall Gallery partnership exhibition will opn at the Drill Hall Gallery in September. The exhibition features a series of en plein air paintings Euan Macleod made on Haupapa Tasman Glacier in New Zealand’s South Island, alongside large scale paintings completed upon his return to his studio. Read Steve Lopes’ review of Euan Macleod: Flux in Artist Profile here.

Low Tides
RACV Gallery Lounge, Melbourne
until 18 August 2024

Euan Macleod: Flux
The Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra
12 September – 3 November, 2024

Euan Macleod is exhibiting at Niagara Galleries later in 2024. 

Brenda L Croft: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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Brenda L. Croft‘s exhibition Naabami (thou shall / will see): Barangaroo (army of me) is now open to the public in the Quentin Bryce Gallery, Embassy of Australia in Washington, DC, USA. Naabami (thou will/shall see): Barangaroo (army of me) features large-scale photomedia portraits of contemporary First Nations women and girls and honours Barangaroo, the Cammeraygal Warrior woman who acts as a constant ancestral guide for the women and girls represented in this major installation.

Brenda L. Croft is also a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize. Entering its 17th year, the National Photographic Portrait Prize is one of the Gallery’s most popular annual events. The prize provides a powerful visual record of the year that was – a celebration of identity, both collective and individual.

In addition, Brenda L. Croft features in the latest Portrait magazine in a recent edition of Art Guide. Her work is also showing in the exhibition Reflecting Lenses: Twenty Years of Photography at the Gorman Museum in California, USA. The exhibition presents highlights from the Gorman Museum of Native American Art collection by more than two dozen Indigenous artists from North America, Aotearoa, and Australia. The exhibition highlights self-representation and the works are accompanied by text by the artists featured. Read more about the exhibition in The Reporter here.

Naabami (thou shall/will see): Barangaroo (army of me)
The Quentin Bryce Gallery, Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC, USA
until 7 February 2025

Reflecting Lenses: Twenty Years of Photography at the Gorman Museum
Gorman Museum of Native American Art, Davis, CA, USA
until 1 September 2024

National Photographic Portrait Prize
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
until 22 September 2024

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