Rick Amor‘s work features in the recent National Gallery of Victoria publication Cats & Dogs in Art and Design. Published to accompany the current exhibition Cats & Dogs at the National Gallery of Victoria, the impressive book includes over 100 works of art and design featuring pets from the NGV collection. Purchase your copy here.
Contact us if you would like to purchase a copy of this superb print – ed 3/10 and 4/10 are available from Niagara
Rick Amor will be exhibiting drawings alongside Paul Boston with Niagara Galleries in 2025.
Martin Parr features in a number of exhibitions worldwide, as well as an upcoming documentary film.
“From Bristol‚ where he lives and has set up his incredible foundation to the seaside resort of New Brighton‚ where he will return with us after 40 years to reshoot his most famous work‚ The Last resort‚ I AM MARTIN PARR is the portrait of an extraordinary photographer who revolutionized contemporary photography by inventing a political‚ humanist and accessible photographic language.” courtesy of Dogwoof. Read more in Variety here.
The exhibition No Smoking at Rocket, London, UK coincides with the publication of a new limited-edition photobook dedicated to the increasingly controversial subject of smoking.
The Tate Britain exhibition The 80s: Photographing Britain explores photography from one of the UK’s most pivotal decades and includes work by Martin Parr.
Rare editions of Martin’s photographs can be purchased from Niagara’s stockroom.
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.
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.
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.
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 paintingsEuan 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: Fluxhere and Steve Lopes’ review here.
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.
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
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.
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’.