Julie Dowling: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
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Euan Macleod: FLUX
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Rubaba Haider: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Rubaba Haider‘s work features in Jaren | جڑیں | Roots | جذور, a collaborative exhibition between the Islamic Museum of Australia, La Trobe University and Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. The exhibition reflects the diverse communities of artists that call or have called Australia home, specifically focusing on artists who express cultural heritage and practices from Central Asia, South Asia, West Asia, North Africa and Eastern Europe. Curated by Mahmoud Mohammed, Jacqui Shelton and Sarah Werkmeister, Rubaba Haider’s work features in Jaren | جڑیں | Roots | جذور alongside examples by artists Abdul Abdullah, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Cigdem Aydemir, Mirela Cufurovic, Fatima Killeen, Aniwar Mamat, Nusra Latif Qureshi and Naeem Rana. In addition, Rubaba Haider’s work will feature in the upcoming exhibition An Still I Rise at Art Gallery of New South Wales, opening in November. The exhibition is a celebration of women’s art practice, the exhibition foregrounds materiality through a wide variety of media, including textiles, painting, metalwork, installation and video. Jaren | جڑیں | Roots | ج And Still I Rise |
Angela Brennan: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
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Steven Rendall: BAYSIDE PAINTING PRIZE winner
Steven Rendall is the joint winner of the Bayside Painting Prize 2025. His painting Myriad Reflector IV is now showing at Bayside Gallery, Brighton.
Ebony Truscott and Euan Heng are finalists in the Bayside Painting Prize 2025.
A celebration of contemporary Australian painting, the prize is an important opportunity for Bayside City Council to add exceptional works of art with a local connection to its collection and to promote art and artists as a valuable part of the Australian community. An exhibition of the finalists’ works opens this Friday, 9 May.
Bayside Painting Prize 2025
Bayside Gallery, Melbourne
9 May – 22 June 2025
Ebony Truscott and Steven Rendall will be exhibiting at Niagara Galleries in 2025.
Brenda L. Croft: LES RENCONTRES d’ARLES
Brenda L. Croft‘s 2024 series Naabámi (thou shall/will see): Barangaroo (army of me) will be shown in On Country: Photography from Australia at the prestigious festival Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, France in July. This major exhibition is curated by PHOTO Australia’s Pippa Milne and Brendan McCleary and highlights the work of twenty Australian artists.
Croft’s important series Naabámi (thou shall/will see): Barangaroo (army of me) features portraits derived from tintypes, then printed large-scale of contemporary Australian First Nations women and girls, honouring Barangaroo, the Cammeraygal woman known for her staunch position as an unceded sovereign First Nations woman during first settler-colonial contact.
Read more in The Guardian here.
On Country: Photography from Australia
Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
7 July – 5 October 2025
Bradd Westmoreland: CONNERS CONNERS
An exciting exhibition of recent paintings and prints by Bradd Westmoreland is currently on at Conners Conners, Fitzroy, ending this Saturday, 10 May.
Bradd Westmoreland: Cosmic bird song II
Conners Conners, Fitzroy
until Saturday, 10 May 2025
Julia Ciccarone: Len Fox People’s Choice Award
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
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
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
