Bradd Westmoreland‘s work features in a recent ‘Living with art’ article in Art Edit. The article, which discusses the courtship collection of Mandy Hall and Nick Edwards, focusing on the couple’s early collecing and their ongoing support of emerging Australian artists. Read the article in full here.
Photography by Brian Doherty, courtesy of Art Edit, Mandy Hall and Nick Edwards.
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‘ 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‘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‘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
Mabel Juli features in the latest issue of Art Collector. The front cover of the April-June 2024 edition of Art Collector features a striking work by Julia Ciccarone (see below). Pick up a copy here.
Mabel Juli’s work features in the exhibition One foot on the Ground, one foot in the water, currently showing at Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, QLD. Curated by Travis Curtin,
One foot on the ground, one foot in the water is a La Trobe Art Institute exhibition toured by NETS Victoria, accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. Read more about the exhibition in Artshub here.
One foot on the Ground, one foot in the water
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Caboolture, QLD
until 1 June 2024
Mabel Juli is exhibiting at Niagara Galleries 29 May – 15 June 2024.
Presented by Drill Hall Gallery Publishing, Ken Whisson: Painting & Drawing is an extensive monograph on one of Australia’s most prolific artists.
Join author Quentin Sprague in conversation with art critic and art historian Victoria Perin, and interim Director of the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Tony Oates as they discuss Ken Whisson: Painting & Drawing and, more broadly, the function of biography in relation to art history.
LAUNCH DETAILS
Ken Whisson: Painting & Drawing Book Launch
NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair
Sunday, 26 May, 11.30am-12.15pm
Great Hall, NGV International, 180 Saint Kilda Road, Southbank Melbourne
Julia Ciccarone‘s recent self portrait entitled In conversation with myself, 2023 features on the front cover of the latest Art Collector. In addition, she appears on ABC Radio National’s The Art Show. Listen here.
Paintings by Dale Hickey and Steven Rendall feature in the upcoming 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.
Working Title: Studio Practice in the RMIT Art Collection
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
30 May – 27 July 2024
Gunter Christmann‘s paitning Heavy Jelly from 1969 features in the current exhibition SNO 176 at Artbank Window at Artbank Sydney. The exhibition brings together work from artists associated with SNO (Sydney Non Objective), the supportive and community-based project that Artbank has proudly supported over the years.
Gunter Christmann’s painting appears alongside works by Belle Blau, Lottie Consalvo, Leslie Dumbrell, Richard Dun, Lynne Eastaway, Nathan Gray, Helga Groves, Matt Hinkley, Andrew Leslie, Ruark Lewis and Kerrie Poliness.
SNO 176
Artbank Window, Artbank Sydney
until 2 June 2024
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