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Julia Ciccarone: Len Fox Painting Award

2024, Artist, Exhibition / By / , ,

Congratulations Julia Ciccarone, finalist in the 2024 Len Fox Painting Award. The Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize, awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915), the uncle of Len Fox, partner of benefactor Mona Fox. An exhibition of the Len Fox Painting Award finalists in currently on at Castlemaine Art Gallery.

2024 Len Fox Painting Award
Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine, VIC
until 2 March 2025

Savandhary Vongpoothorn: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial

2024, Artist, Exhibition / By / , ,

The 2024 edition of the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial focuses on the compelling and allusive languages of abstraction and features the work of artists from around Australia, including Savanhdary Vongpoothorn (ACT), along with Matthew Allen (NSW), Helen Eager (NSW), Emma Fielden (NSW), the late Ngarralja Tommy May (WA), Ceara Metlikovec (NSW), Kerrie Poliness (VIC), Cameron Robbins (VIC), Sandra Selig (QLD) and Kate Vassallo (ACT). Read more about Savanhdary Vongpoothorn in the latest edition of the AGNSW’s members magazine Look.

Infinite: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2024
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
until 12 January 2025

Angela Brennan: Art Gallery of Ballarat

2024, Artist, Exhibition / By / , ,

Angela Brennan‘s work features in Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar, an upcoming exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. In addition to photographs, paintings, drawings, illustrative designs, and objects 40 iconic guitars on loan from the National Guitar Museum (USA) will be shown until February 2025.

Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar
Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Vic
12 October 2024 – 2 February 2025

Euan Macleod: ANU Drill Hall Gallery

2024, Artist, Exhibition / By / ,

Euan Macleod: Flux, an Orange Regional Gallery and ANU Drill Hall Gallery partnership is now open at the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra. 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 Sasha Grishin’s review of Euan Macleod: Flux here and Steve Lopes’ review here.

Euan Macleod: Flux
The Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra
until 3 November 2024

Euan Macleod is exhibiting at Niagara Galleries from 16 October – 9 November 2024

Sean Meilak: Melbourne Sculpture Biennale

2024, Artist, Exhibition / By / , ,

The inaugural exhibition of the Melbourne Sculpture Biennale is now open. Titled The Burden of Objects, the exhibition is curated by Adam Stone and Laura Couttie and focuses on artists invested in the materiality of sculpture and features Sean Meilak‘s work.

The Melbourne Sculpture Biennale will present a series of artists talks throughout the exhibition, including one with Sean Meilak, Catherine Bell and Rob McLeish this Saturday, 12 October from ‍‍‍1–2pm.

Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: The Burden of Objects
Villa Alba Museum, Melbourne
until Sunday, 13 October 2024

Artist Talks
Villa Alba Museum, Melbourne
Saturday, 12 October, 1-2pm

Tennant Creek Brio: ACCA

2024, Artist, Exhibition / By / ,

The first major survey of the artist collective Tennant Creek Brio is now open at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

“Fusing First Nations cultural traditions, the industrial materiality of the mining industry, and regional and global art influences, the exhibition asserts and re-imagines the artists’ cross-cultural identities, drawing upon the haunting wounds of post-contact histories, the renewal and remaking of cultural practices, and the collaborative resilience and audaciously punk attitude of a frontier community.” courtesy of ACCA

Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis
ACCA, Melbourne
21 September – 17 November 2024

Brenda L. Croft: Quentin Bryce Gallery

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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 work can also be seen in the National Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra until Sunday.

National Photographic Portrait Prize
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
until 13 October 2024

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

Euan Heng: Gippsland Art Gallery

2024, Artist, Exhibition / By / , ,

Drawn from Gippsland Art Gallery’s permanent collection, the exhibition Figurative Fictions features more than fifty works, including Only Strangers Travel by Euan Heng.

Exhibition curator Dr Louisa Waters writes, ‘Here in Figurative Fictions, we explore the way we respond to a particular kind of figurative art, one where the viewer is drawn to extrapolate meaning, as our imaginations are invited to play with the possible scenarios and permit any number of potential narratives to unfold’.

Figurative Fictions
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
until 24 November 2024

Dianne Jones: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

2024, Artist, Exhibition / By / , ,

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

Martin Parr: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

2024, Artist, Exhibition / By / ,

Martin Parr has been given the Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo’s Life Time Achievement Award. An open air retrospective of 45 Parr images are currently being displayed at the Kaiserhaus-Garten in honour of this award. A number of solo exhibitions of Parr’s work are being held currently including Tynwald Week – Photos by Martin Parr and his work is showing in Communion, London’s Bold Tendencies’ 2024 program.

Communion
Bold Tendencies, London, UK
until 14 Sep 24

Tynwald Week – Photos by Martin Parr
Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man
until 6 Oct 24

Life Time Achievement Award, Festival La Gacilly-Baden
Kaiserhaus-Garten, Baden, Austria
until 13 Oct 24

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