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Angela Brennan: Blaze

2023, Artist, Exhibition / By / ,

Angela Brennan‘s work features in the current exhibition BLAZE: people made known at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, which features portraits drawn from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art.

The historical origin of the verb ‘blaze’ refers to the use of sound and fire to announce an individual’s arrival. BLAZE speaks of agency, visibility and a desire to communicate to a public. In this sense, the exhibition investigates the power of portraiture to convey the unique characteristics of a person and acknowledge remarkable individuals. – Text courtesy of Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

BLAZE: people made known
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
until 9 December 2023

Angelina Pwerle: National Museum of Qatar

2023, Artist, Exhibition / By / , ,

Celebrating The Met’s Oceanic art collection, the exhibition The Shape of Time: Art and Ancestors of Oceania from The Metropolitan Museum of Art is touring throughout to a number of locations throughout the world. Now on at the National Museum of Qatar, the exhibition includes nearly 130 cherished works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s unparalleled Oceanic collection, including work by Angelina Pwerle.

The Shape of Time: Art and Ancestors of Oceania from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar
until 15 January 2024

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Helen Maudsley

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The National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition Know My Name: Australian Women Artists begins its two-year tour of regional Australia at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. The exhibition features works from the National Gallery’s two-part exhibition held between 2020 and 2022, including Helen Maudsley and Brenda L. Croft.

Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery at Town Hall Gallery features significant works from the Town Hall Gallery Collection, including The wonderful diversion by Helen Maudsley. The exhibition has been grouped into themes: People, Places and Perspectives; showcasing the vital role of the gallery in reflecting a sense of community and shared history in Boroondara.

In addition, Maudsley’s work is showing in Expressive potential: studies in abstraction, which features abstract art spanning from the 1930s to the present day.

Expressive potential: studies in abstraction
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
until 1 December 2024

Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery
Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne
until 20 January 2024

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC
until 18 February 2024

Rick Amor: Australian War Memorial

2023, Artist, Exhibition / By / , ,

Critical Witness: Official war artists after 1999, currently at the Australian War Memorial features several paintings by Rick Amor. In 1999, Amor was appointed the official war artist to East Timor by the Australian War Memorial, the first such appointment since the Vietnam War. Rick Amor paved the way for a generation of artists to “observe, record and interpret” the activities of the Australian Defence Force.

Critical Witness: Official war artists after 1999
Australian War Memorial, Campbell, Canberra
ongoing

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Brenda L. Croft

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Brenda L. Croft‘s work can be seen at two venues in Victoria this summer: at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery alongside Helen Maudsley and at NGV Australia, Fed Square, alongside Dianne Jones and Martin Parr.

The National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition Know My Name: Australian Women Artists features works from the National Gallery’s two-part exhibition held between 2020 and 2022.

Featuring work by three Niagara artists: Brenda L. Croft, Dianne Jones and Martin Parr, the current exhibition Photography: Real and Imagined at NGV Australia examines photography grounded in the real world and as a product of the imagination. This is the NGV’s largest survey of the photography collection and includes more than 200 works.

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

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC
until 18 February 2024

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Noel McKenna

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Sleep my horse…5 August 1956 | Noel McKenna, the autobiographical exhibition at Maitland Regional Art Gallery features work by McKenna alongside treasures and poetry from the artist’s collection. McKenna notes that “this is a contemplation of things that have come about, or have not come about or what may come about or what may never come about”.

Noel McKenna‘s work also appears in A Line A Web A World at Powerhouse Museum. The exhibition features 230 drawings from across the world and ends on the 31 December 2023.

In addition, McKenna’s work will feature in the upcoming exhibition Halfway at Yarrila Arts and Museum, Coffs Harbour. “Halfway explores the duality of Coffs Harbour as a place and non-place – a highway town about to be bypassed, where the highway dominates the city’s rhythms and motels, service stations, ‘Big Things’ and tourism places prevail.” text courtesy of Yarrila Arts and Museum.

A Line A Web A World
Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, Sydney
until 31 December 2023

Halfway
Yarrila Arts and Museum, Coffs Harbour, NSW
8 December 2023 – 11 February 2024

Sleep my horse…5 August 1956 | Noel McKenna
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW
until 25 February 2024

ACU Art Collection: Contemporary Visions

2023, Artist, publication / By / , , , , , ,

ACU’s latest publication ACU Art Collection: Contemporary Visions focuses on modern and contemporary works from the collection ACU Art Collection. Contemporary Visions features artworks by sixty artists working in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, glass, ceramics and more, including Angela Brennan, Fiona Foley, Euan Heng and Sangeeta Sandrasegar.

Read more about the publication and order your copy here.

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: Aflame

2023, Artist, Exhibition / By / , , ,

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: Aflame at Campbelltown Arts Centre has now closed, but a number of journalists have written about the well-received exhibition. Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: Aflame was previewed by Nikita Holcombe for Artist Profile and reviewed by Gina Fairley for Artshub. Read about the exhibition in Artist Profile here and Artshub here.

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