2024

Julia Ciccarone: Len Fox People’s Choice Award

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Congratulations Julia Ciccarone on being named the 2024 Len Fox People’s Choice Award winner. Her painting (pictured above) was on display at Castlemaine Art Museum in the Len Fox Painting Prize exhibition until earlier this week.

The Painter depicts an artist returning to his studio after sketching en plein air. The figure carries a handcrafted wooden case his grandfather made, now filled with drawing utensils, that alludes to his history and knowledge passed down from previous generations. I utilise history, both recent and ancient in my work. I am indebted to my artistic predecessors, both within Australia and abroad. Emanuel Phillips Fox’s most direct influence on my work is his contribution to plein air painting in Australia and his particular talent for capturing Australian light. I completed The Painter, 2023 after visiting the Bay of Fires in Tasmania. As is my customary process, I studied, sketched and photographed the landscape before returning to my studio to complete the composition and painting process. I, like Phillips Fox, have long been engaged with travel and influenced by what I have had the privilege of seeing whilst overseas. Italian art movements have been particularly influential. Both of my parents migrated from Italy and I have travelled there many times, including to complete the Verdaccio Studio (awarded through the Australia Council). Julia Ciccarone, 2024.

The Painter is now available from our stockroom.

Julia Ciccarone will be exhibiting at Niagara Galleries in 2025.

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: Artbank

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The exhibition Love, Yellow at Artbank Melbourne presents a selection of works from the Artbank Collection, exploring the colour yellow across its full tonal range. The exhibition includes work by Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, displayed alongside works from all areas of the Artbank’s collection, including: painting, photography, sculpture, works on paper, ceramics, textile, glass, and time-based media. 

Love, Yellow
Artbank, Melbourne
until 18 April 2025

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn will be exhibiting at Niagara Galleries in 2025.

Rubaba Haider: Art Gallery of New South Wales

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Titled after Maya Angelou’s influential book of poems, the exhibition And Still I Rise at the Art Gallery of New South Wales focuses on a culturally diverse group of women artists living in Australia, including Rubaba Haider. Opening in November, the exhibition is drawn from the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ collection, supplemented with new commissions.

And Still I Rise
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
opens 8 November 2025

Dianne Jones: Perth Festival

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Presented in association with Perth Festival, Dianne Jones | The Beach at Fremantle Arts Centre features Jones’ seminal works Sunbaker and Beach Scene, which rework iconic Australian beach photographs by artist Max Dupain and Harold Cazneaux, using analogue processes to insert herself into Australian art history.

Dianne Jones | The Beach
Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
until 20 April 2025

Sangeeta Sandrasegar: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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Sangeeta Sandrasegar‘s work Everything has two witnesses, one on earth and one in the sky, 2014, woven by Sue Batten at the Australian Tapestry Workshop is currently showing in the exhibition Radical Textiles at Art Gallery of South Australia.

In addition, Sangeeta is a current Artist in Residence at the Australian Tapestry Workshop. The ATW Artists in Residence exchange knowledge and skills with tapestry weavers and engages with local communities. Sangeeta’s work is currently showing the the ATW exhibition space in South Melbourne.

Radical Textiles
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
until 30 Mar 2025

Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
until 24 May 2025

Sangeeta Sandrasegar will be exhibiting at Niagara Galleries in 2025.

Fiona Foley: QAGOMA

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Fiona Foley‘s work will feature in the upcoming exhibition Snap Blak Photography in the Indigenous Australian Art Collection at QAGOMA. Opening in August, Snap Blak brings together contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island photography that champions Indigenous self-representation.

Snap Blak Photography in the Indigenous Australian Art Collection
QAGOMA, Brisbane
16 August 2025 – 13 September 2026

Angela Brennan: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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The Intelligence of Painting is now open at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. This exciting exhibition throws a spotlight on the energy of contemporary painting in Australia today through the work of 14 Australian women artists, including Angela Brennan. Curated by Suzanne Cotter and Manya Sellers, this must-see exhibition continues MCA’s commitment to be a platform for living artists.

Angela Brennan‘s work also features in the current exhibitions A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985-1995 at Gertrude Contemporary and Space, place and identity: Female Perspectives at Gallery Lounge, RACV City Club.
Curated by Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon, A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985-1995 includes rarely seen artwork from Gertrude’s formative years.

Drawn from the RACV art collection, Space, place and identity: Female Perspectives showcases the transformative perspectives of female artists.

The Intelligence of Painting
MCA, Sydney
until 20 July 2025

A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985-1995
Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
until 23 March 2025

Space, place and identity: Female Perspectives
Gallery Lounge, RACV City Club, Melbourne
until 22 June 2025

Ebony Truscott: Artbank

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Ebony Truscott‘s work features in the current Sydney Artbank exhibition entitled (De)Nature Morte: Still Life from the Artbank Collection. The exhibition explores the tradition of still life and what the genre reveals to viewers today.

(De)Nature Morte: Still Life from the Artbank Collection
Artbank Window, Sydney
until 7 February 2025

Ebony Truscott will be exhibiting at Niagara Galleries in 2025.

Euan Heng: The Suter Art Gallery

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Celebrating the power of human hands, the exhibition A Show of Hands at The Suter Gallery in New Zealand includes work by Euan Heng from the late Mark Stevenson Collection. A wonderful collector who we lost this year and remember fondly. The exhibition showcases sculpture, paintings, photographs, textile art and printmaking from a number of artist sand continues until April 2025.

A Show of Hands
The Suter Art Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand
until 6 April 2025

 

Richard Larter: ANU Drill Hall Gallery

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Richard Larter: Free Radical at ANU Drill Hall Gallery features abstract paintings from the bold and important artist.

“This exhibition locates Larter’s rich stream of luminous abstract paintings (many painted in Canberra and Yass) within the body of his figurative work. While informed by his adventures into popular culture these works are also firmly rooted in the histories of abstraction, holding great concern for composition and the formal dynamic relationships of colour, shape and line. Fluid, lyrical and improvised, Larter’s work refers to the energies of place and the politics of the times.” courtesy of Drill Hall Gallery.

Read more in Artist Profile. Drill Hall Gallery have published Richard Larter: Free Radical and Riffing On: Pat Larter’s Rhythms and Pete Maloney’s Blues to accompany the exhibition. Purchase your copy here.

Richard Larter: Free Radical
ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
until 19 January 2025

 

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