2024

The Alice Prize Winner: Fiona Foley

2024, Artist, Prizes / By Ashini Nanayakkara / Araluen Arts Centre, Fiona Foley, The Alice Prize

Congratulations to Fiona Foley on winning the 2024 Alice Prize for her video work Janjari. Filmed on location on K’gari (Fraser Island), Janjari explores and deconstructs colonial mythmaking. Read more about her work here.

Coordinated by the Alice Springs Art Foundation, the Alice Prize is a biennial acquisitive prize. An exhibition of the finalists’ work, including work by Fiona Foley and Mary Barton is now on at Araluen Arts Centre.

The Alice Prize National Contemporary Art Award
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT
until 12 May 2024

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Angela Brennan

2024, Artist, Exhibition / By Ashini Nanayakkara / Angela Brennan, Art Gallery of Ballarat, artist spotlight, public exhibition

An exciting exhibition of Angela Brennan‘s is now on at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. Angela Brennan: Tête-à-tête & Vis-à-vis features a new series of large-scale abstract paintings alongside a sculpture inspired by a 19th-century-style conversation couch owned by the Art Gallery of Ballarat which Angela became acquainted with when visiting the Gallery as a teenager.

In addition, Angela Brennan’s work features in the exhibition At Home with Painting at SCA Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts until 20 April 2024. Curated by Madeleine Kelly, At Home with Painting includes paintings by Angela Brennan alongside work by Hany Armanious, Amber Boardman, Diena Georgetti, Alex Gawronski, Newell Harry, Madeleine Kelly, Spencer Lai, Archie Moore, Jahnne Pasco-White, Lisa Radford, Tim Schultz, Jelena Telecki and Rex Veal.

Angela Brennan: Tête-à-tête & Vis-à-vis
Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, VIC
until 21 April 2024

At Home with Painting
SCA Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, NSW
until 20 April 2024

Angela Brennan is exhibiting at Niagara Galleries later in 2024.

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Martin Parr

2023, 2024, Artist, Exhibition / By Ashini Nanayakkara / artist spotlight, Martin Parr, NGV Australia, public exhibition, Tenby Museum, The Ian Potter Center

Two solo exhibitions from British photographer Martin Parr are currently on in Wales and the USA. The exhibition Beside the sea – Tenby through the lens of Martin Parr features photographs by Martin Parr taken around the seaside town of Tenby between 2008 and 2020. The Parr Survey at Harper’s Gallery, New York is Martin Parr’s second solo show at the venue.

In Australia, Martin Parr’s work can be seen in Photography: Real and Imagined at NGV Australia alongside works by Brenda L. Croft and Dianne Jones.

The Parr Survey
Harper’s Chelsea 534 + Harper’s Books, New York, NY, USA
until 16 December 2023

Photography: Real and Imagined
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square, Melbourne
until 4 February 2024

Beside the sea – Tenby through the lens of Martin Parr
Tenby Museum, Tenby, Wales
until 1 April 2024

Julie Dowling: Shepparton Art Museum

2023, 2024, Artist, Exhibition / By Ashini Nanayakkara / Julie Dowling, public exhibition, Shepparton Art Museum

A tender portrait by Julie Dowling of her own grandmother features in the exhibition Dance Me to the End of Love at Shepparton Art Museum. Works in the exhibition are selected from the SAM collection and include ceramics, sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing, assemblage and installation.

Dance Me to the End of Love
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria
until 11 February 2024

Martin Parr: Beside the sea

2023, 2024, Artist, Exhibition / By Ashini Nanayakkara / Martin Parr, public exhibition, Tenby Museum

The recently opened exhibition Beside the sea – Tenby through the lens of Martin Parr features photographs by Martin Parr taken around the seaside town of Tenby between 2008 and 2020.

Beside the sea – Tenby through the lens of Martin Parr
Tenby Museum, Tenby, Wales
until 1 April 2024

Steven Rendall: data for future paintings

2023, 2024, Artist, Exhibition / By Ashini Nanayakkara / Albert Tucker, Heide Museum of Modern Art, public exhibition, Steven Rendall

Curated by Melissa Keys and Laura Lantieri, Steven Rendall and Albert Tucker: data for future paintings at Heide Museum of Modern Art features a new series of work by Steven Rendall, prompted by, and exhibited alongside selected studies and photographs by Albert Tucker.

Steven Rendall and Albert Tucker: data for future paintings
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Melbourne
until 17 March 2024

Paul Boston: Stone Clouds

2023, 2024, Artist, Exhibition / By Ashini Nanayakkara / Heide Museum of Modern Art, Paul Boston, public exhibition

The survey exhibition Paul Boston: Stone Clouds features work from the 1980s to today is now open at Heide Museum of Modern Art. Exhibition curator and Heide Museum of Modern Art director Lesley Harding states that “Boston’s quiet, thoughtful paintings and drawings investigate space, light and materiality rather than representing figures or objects in the world, and over time his visual language has slowly transitioned from a type of hieroglyphic vocabulary, through a minimal or reductive phase, to the more complex and layered illusionistic forms of recent times. Throughout he has adhered to a sophisticated, subdued palette and a resolution that his images operate beyond logical thought and intended meaning.”

An impressive publication to accompany the exhibition will be available from the Heide Museum of Modern Art Shop soon.

Paul Boston: Stone Clouds
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Melbourne until 10 February 2024

Paul Boston will be exhibiting new paintings at Niagara Galleries
from 15 November – 16 December 2023

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