Apple Blossom On Round Table Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Apple Blossom On Round Table
Jane Guthleben
Apple Blossom On Round Table 2018
Apple Blossom On Round TableJane GuthlebenApple Blossom On Round Table
Jane Guthleben
Apple Blossom On Round Table2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
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Little Banksia In Souvenir Mug Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Little Banksia In Souvenir Mug
Jane Guthleben
Little Banksia In Souvenir Mug 2018
Little Banksia In Souvenir MugJane GuthlebenLittle Banksia In Souvenir Mug
Jane Guthleben
Little Banksia In Souvenir Mug2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
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Blossom And Leaves In 50's Jug Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Blossom And Leaves In 50's Jug
Jane Guthleben
Blossom And Leaves In 50's Jug 2018
Blossom And Leaves In 50's JugJane GuthlebenBlossom And Leaves In 50's Jug
Jane Guthleben
Blossom And Leaves In 50's Jug2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
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Little Sprig Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Little Sprig
Jane Guthleben
Little Sprig 2018
Little SprigJane GuthlebenLittle Sprig
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Little Sprig2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
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Pale Green Banksia Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Pale Green Banksia
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Pale Green Banksia 2018
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Pale Green Banksia2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
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Red Paw In Whiskey Glass Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Red Paw In Whiskey Glass
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Red Paw In Whiskey Glass 2018
Red Paw In Whiskey GlassJane GuthlebenRed Paw In Whiskey Glass
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Red Paw In Whiskey Glass2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
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White Blossom In Blue Tumbler Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - White Blossom In Blue Tumbler
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White Blossom In Blue Tumbler 2018
White Blossom In Blue TumblerJane GuthlebenWhite Blossom In Blue Tumbler
Jane Guthleben
White Blossom In Blue Tumbler2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
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Superb Parrot And Blossom In Green Jug Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Superb Parrot And Blossom In Green Jug
Jane Guthleben
Superb Parrot And Blossom In Green Jug 2018
Superb Parrot And Blossom In Green JugJane GuthlebenSuperb Parrot And Blossom In Green Jug
Jane Guthleben
Superb Parrot And Blossom In Green Jug2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
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Looking Through Dan Kyle Dan Kyle - Looking Through
Dan Kyle
Looking Through 2018
Looking ThroughDan KyleLooking Through
Dan Kyle
Looking Through2018
Oil And Collage On Board
20 x 30 cm
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Overcast In The Valley Dan Kyle Dan Kyle - Overcast In The Valley
Dan Kyle
Overcast In The Valley 2018
Overcast In The ValleyDan KyleOvercast In The Valley
Dan Kyle
Overcast In The Valley2018
oil and collage on board
60 x 120 cm
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Native Garden For Willow Dan Kyle Dan Kyle - Native Garden For Willow
Dan Kyle
Native Garden For Willow 2018
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Native Garden For Willow2018
Oil And Collage On Board
60 x 120 cm
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Afternoon Visitor Dan Kyle Dan Kyle - Afternoon Visitor
Dan Kyle
Afternoon Visitor 2018
Afternoon VisitorDan KyleAfternoon Visitor
Dan Kyle
Afternoon Visitor2018
Oil And Collage On Board
20 x 30 cm
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Sun Showers Dan Kyle Dan Kyle - Sun Showers
Dan Kyle
Sun Showers 2018
Sun ShowersDan KyleSun Showers
Dan Kyle
Sun Showers2018
Oil And pencil On Board
20 x 30 cm
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One Crowded Hour Charmaine Pike Charmaine Pike - One Crowded Hour
Charmaine Pike
One Crowded Hour 2018
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Charmaine Pike
One Crowded Hour2018
acrylic on canvas
61 x 61 cm
$1,900  ENQUIRE
Secret Journey Charmaine Pike Charmaine Pike - Secret Journey
Charmaine Pike
Secret Journey 2018
Secret JourneyCharmaine PikeSecret Journey
Charmaine Pike
Secret Journey2018
acrylic on canvas
61 x 61 cm
$1,900  ENQUIRE
Ode To Joy I Charmaine Pike Charmaine Pike - Ode To Joy I
Charmaine Pike
Ode To Joy I 2018
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Charmaine Pike
Ode To Joy I2018
acrylic on canvas
76 x 102 cm
$3,350  ENQUIRE
Ode To Joy II Charmaine Pike Charmaine Pike - Ode To Joy II
Charmaine Pike
Ode To Joy II 2018
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Ode To Joy II2018
acrylic on canvas
76 x 102 cm
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Misread Situation Vanessa Stockard Vanessa Stockard - Misread Situation
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Misread Situation 2018
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Vanessa Stockard
Misread Situation2018
oil on board
50 x 50 cm
$1,650  ENQUIRE
Self Portrait Pink Vanessa Stockard Vanessa Stockard - Self Portrait Pink
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Self Portrait Pink 2018
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Self Portrait Pink2018
oil on board
40 x 40 cm
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Dark Angel Vanessa Stockard Vanessa Stockard - Dark Angel
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Dark Angel 2018
Dark AngelVanessa StockardDark Angel
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Dark Angel2018
oil on board
50 x 45 cm
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Fur Hat Vanessa Stockard Vanessa Stockard - Fur Hat
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Fur Hat 2018
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Fur Hat2018
oil on board
50 x 45 cm
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Meroo National Park Liam Ambrose Liam Ambrose - Meroo National Park
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Meroo National Park 2018
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Meroo National Park2018
Acrylic On Cotton Blend
86 x 91 cm
$1,400  ENQUIRE
Arrawarra Liam Ambrose Liam Ambrose - Arrawarra
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Arrawarra 2018
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Liam Ambrose
Arrawarra2018
Acrylic On Cotton Blend
86 x 91 cm
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Wine Bottle John Bokor John Bokor - Wine Bottle
John Bokor
Wine Bottle 2017
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John Bokor
Wine Bottle2017
oil on linen
82 x 62 cm
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Bottle Of Mineral Water John Bokor John Bokor - Bottle Of Mineral Water
John Bokor
Bottle Of Mineral Water 2017
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Bottle Of Mineral Water2017
oil on linen
137 x 113 cm
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The Blue Pencil John Bokor John Bokor - The Blue Pencil
John Bokor
The Blue Pencil 2017
The Blue PencilJohn BokorThe Blue Pencil
John Bokor
The Blue Pencil2017
oil on canvas
75 x 61 cm
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Back Lane, Wollongong John Bokor John Bokor - Back Lane, Wollongong
John Bokor
Back Lane, Wollongong 2018
Back Lane, WollongongJohn BokorBack Lane, Wollongong
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Back Lane, Wollongong2018
oil on linen
61 x 75 cm
He Pulled A Blossom Off The Tree For Me As I Left Bridie Gillman Bridie Gillman - He Pulled A Blossom Off The Tree For Me As I Left
Bridie Gillman
He Pulled A Blossom Off The Tree For Me As I Left 2018
He Pulled A Blossom Off The Tree For Me As I LeftBridie GillmanHe Pulled A Blossom Off The Tree For Me As I Left
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He Pulled A Blossom Off The Tree For Me As I Left2018
oil on canvas
70 x 55 cm
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On The Bend Bridie Gillman Bridie Gillman - On The Bend
Bridie Gillman
On The Bend 2018
On The BendBridie GillmanOn The Bend
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On The Bend2018
oil and pastel on canvas
70 x 55 cm
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A Rainbow Appears, A Sunshower Begins Bridie Gillman Bridie Gillman - A Rainbow Appears, A Sunshower Begins
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A Rainbow Appears, A Sunshower Begins 2018
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A Rainbow Appears, A Sunshower Begins2018
oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas
125 x 100 cm
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Entwine Tim Allen Tim Allen - Entwine
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Entwine 2018
EntwineTim AllenEntwine
Tim Allen
Entwine2018
oil on linen
122 x 122 cm
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Displacement Tim Allen Tim Allen - Displacement
Tim Allen
Displacement 2018
DisplacementTim AllenDisplacement
Tim Allen
Displacement2018
oil on linen
122 x 122 cm
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Baby Deco On Lygon Christopher Zanko Christopher Zanko - Baby Deco On Lygon
Christopher Zanko
Baby Deco On Lygon 2017
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Baby Deco On Lygon2017
Acrylic On Wood Relief Carving
120 x 90 cm
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Austinmer Pastels Christopher Zanko Christopher Zanko - Austinmer Pastels
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Austinmer Pastels 2018
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Austinmer Pastels2018
Acrylic On Wood relief Carving
120 x 90 cm
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Fairy Meadow Fibro Christopher Zanko Christopher Zanko - Fairy Meadow Fibro
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Fairy Meadow Fibro 2018
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Fairy Meadow Fibro2018
Acrylic On Wood relief Carving
120 x 90 cm
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Mt. Ousley Maroon Christopher Zanko Christopher Zanko - Mt. Ousley Maroon
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Mt. Ousley Maroon 2018
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Mt. Ousley Maroon2018
Acrylic On Wood relief Carving
120 x 90 cm
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November 12, 2024

BRIDIE GILLMAN IS A FINALIST IN THE 2024 REDLAND ART AWARD

Congratulations to Bridie Gillman who is a finalist in the 2024 Redland Art Awards with her work 'See from sky'.

The Redland Art Awards is a biennial contemporary painting competition open to all Australian artists, presented by Redland Art Gallery.

The finalists exhibition will be held at the Redland Art Gallery, opening Friday 6 December 2024.

IMAGE:

Bridie Gillman

See from sky 2024

oil on canvas

153 x 137 cm

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October 18, 2024

CONGRATULATIONS TO JOHN BOKOR WHO IS A FINALIST IN THE 2024 KEDUMBA DRAWING PRIZE

We are thrilled to share that John Bokor is a finalist in the 2024 Kedumba Drawing Prize with his work 'After the Feast'.

The Kedumba Drawing Award is a $20,000 acquisitive award open to resident Australian artists working in the broad sphere of drawing. The winning work will become a permanent part of The Kedumba Collection, which is considered to be the most important collection of Australian drawings outside the National Gallery.

The finalists exhibition will be held from 17 November - 15 December, Kedumba Gallery, NSW

IMAGE:

John Bokor

After the Feast 2024

charcoal, wash and collage

71 x 90cm

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October 15, 2024

JANE GUTHLEBEN IS A FINALIST IN THE 2024 PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL AWARD

Congratulations to Jane Guthleben who is a finalists in the 2024 Portia Geach Memorial Award with her self portrait 'The Female Artist'.

This painting is part of an ongoing series of portraits of women that I call ornament-portraits; small in size and designed to be the opposite of monuments, which have historically been mostly of men. I stand the subject on a little plinth so that she appears rather like an ornament on a shelf. I usually choose women I admire in the Arts, Politics or the Media. This series is not to diminish the achievements of these women, but rather to draw attention to the fact that women’s appearance continues to be a subject of discussion – that women continue to be “ornamental” - despite their work and stature.

Inspired by Wendy Sharpe’s Self Portrait as Circus Banner 2019, I decided to paint a self-portrait. In her portrait, Wendy pointed to the continuing pitfalls of being a female artist, including being known as a “woman artist” rather than just an artist, having no visible means of support, and wearing a cloak of invisibility.

Female Artist is a nod to this and is painted in the style of a still life, which is often seen as female subject matter. I have imagined myself as a porcelain ornament, standing in front of an easel with a flower painting. The apron and the pastel colours add to the domesticity of the subject matter.

Jane Guthleben, 2024

Finalists exhibition will be held at the S.H Ervin Gallery, 25 October – 15 December 2024, Sydney

IMAGE:

JANE GUTHLEBEN
‘The Female Artist (self-portrait)’ 2024
oil on marine ply
40 x 20cm

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September 20, 2024

CONGRATULATIONS TO CHRIS ZANKO WHO IS A FINALIST IN THE 2024 FISHER'S GHOST ART AWARD

We are thrilled to share that Christopher Zanko is a finalist in the 2024 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award with his work ‘The Laundry’.

The annual Fisher’s Ghost Art Award is now in its 62nd year, and there is over $60,000 in prize money to be won across the categories. The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award coincides with Campbelltown’s annual Festival of Fisher’s Ghost. Held over ten days, the Festival dates back to 1956 and celebrates Australia’s most famous ghost – Frederick Fisher.

The finalists exhibition will be held at the Campbelltown Arts Centre from Saturday 26 October – Friday 6 December, 2024

IMAGE

‘The Laundry’ 2023
acrylic on wood relief carving
59 x 54 cm

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August 27, 2024

BRIDIE GILLMAN IS A 2024 FINALIST IN THE JOHN LESLIE ART PRIZE

We are thrilled to congratulate Bridie Gillman on being selected as a finalist in the 2024 John Leslie Art Prize with her painting ‘Hanging, holding.’

The $20,000 Acquisitive Prize is named after John Leslie OBE (1919—2016), Patron of the Gippsland Art Gallery and celebrates landscape painting by Australian artists.

Bridie’s work will be on exhibition amongst the other finalists from 7 September to 24 November at the Gippsland Art Gallery, in Sale, Victoria.

Image courtesy Louis Lim

IMAGE:

Bridie Gillman

Hanging, holding 2024

oil on canvas

137 x 198cm


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June 29, 2024

CHRISTOPHER ZANKO IS A FINALIST IN THE 2024 SUNSHINE COAST NATIONAL ART PRIZE

We are pleased to share that Chris Zanko is a finalist in this year’s Sunshine Coast National Art Prize for his work ‘The Bathroom’.

The national acquisitive Sunshine Coast National Art Prize is a dynamic visual arts award reflecting outstanding contemporary 2D and new media arts practice in Australia. The finalists exhibiton will be exhibited at the Caloundra Regional Gallery from 24 August - 13 October 2024.

‘From the house I grew up in to the share houses and rentals I've lived in since, there has always been a variation of this tile in the bathroom, laundry, or kitchen. In recent years, I've begun to collect different colour variations of it. Sometimes I feel as though I've seen them all, then I incidentally come across a new colour motif. Synonymous with the mid-century red brick and fibro houses in my local area of Wollongong, many of the houses and buildings with these tiles are disappearing. Carving this design into wood is a way of enacting a sense of permanence, as the marks cannot be undone.’

Chris Zanko, 2024

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Image:

‘The Bathroom’ 2023

acrylic on wood relief carving

59 x 54 cm

June 13, 2024

EXCITING NEWS FOR CHRISTOPHER ZANKO WHO IS A FINALIST IN THE 2024 WAVERLEY ART PRIZE

Exciting news for Christopher Zanko who is a finalists in the 2024 Waverley Art Prize for his work 'Midday brick house'.

The Waverley Art Prize finalist exhibition is on from 6 July - 18 August at the Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney.

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Image:

'Midday brick house' 2023

Flashè on Wood relief carving

122 x 99 cm

Image courtesy Jessica Maurer

May 30, 2024

CHRISTOPHER ZANKO IS A FINALIST IN THE 2024 WYNNE PRIZE

Thrilled to share the news that Chris Zanko is a finalist in the 2024 Wynne Prize with his work ‘Personal plethoras’.

Growing up, Christopher Zanko formed impressions of local architecture that helped him build a ‘cognitive map’. Particular houses and streets in the Wollongong suburbs of his childhood, on Dharawal land, became markers for him in a place now undergoing development and gentrification.

Zanko, a two-time Wynne finalist, noticed this house while walking to his daughter’s preschool in 2023. ‘The arrangement of shadows cast by the eaves and the glimpse into the backyard gave a sense of familiarity,’ he says. Rendered large, with confident lines, the house’s textures of red brick, speckled concrete, pruned bushes and drawn blinds have been lovingly depicted. Zanko carves into the wooden surface with small hand chisels before adding colour, then accentuates the work’s graphic details and deep shadows by applying black paint with a roller.

While the changing nature of our environment can be challenging, Zanko notes, it ‘is arguably necessary, especially considering Australia’s current housing crisis’. ‘Through my process I seek to give a sense of permanency to the narratives and experiences of suburban Australia.’


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Artwork:

‘Personal plethoras’ 2024

synthetic polymer paint on hand-carved wood

180.1 x 150 cm

November 30, 2023

BRIDIE GILLMAN IS A FINALIST FOR THE 2023 BERMINGHAM PRIZE

Congratulations to Bridie Gillman who is a finalist for the The Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize for her work 'Night Lines'.

Celebrating excellence and innovation in the watercolour medium, this non-acquisitive prize offers a winning of $20,000 generously donated by Elaine Bermingham.

Selected finalists will be exhibited at QCA Galleries, located within Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art and Design at South Bank, Brisbane from 30 November 2023 - 11 January 2024.

IMAGE

Bridie Gillman

Night Lines 2023

watercolour and ink on linen

102 x 115cm


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October 20, 2023

JANE GUTHLEBEN IS A FINALIST IN THE 2023 PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL AWARD

Jane Guthleben has been selected for the Portia Geach Memorial Award, for her painting of the bird photographer, Leila Jeffreys.

Renowned photographic artist Leila Jeffreys is internationally recognised for her bird portraiture, video installations, books, films and her contribution to bird conservation. Recently she undertook an assignment in sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, where she observed penguin populations. She sent me pictures from the trip of penguin parents doting on their fluffy brown babies. With recent news that shrinking ice has had a devastating impact on penguin populations in Antarctica this year, her trip and research couldn’t have been timelier.

For our Portia Geach sitting we went to Sydney Aquarium where we spent a few hours looking at penguins. Leila is a bird whisperer, and the penguins there climbed all over her and were fascinated by her camera equipment. It seemed right that a portrait of Leila would include a bird.

This painting is part of an ongoing series of portraits of women I admire that I call ornament-portraits; small in size and designed to be the opposite of monuments (which have historically been mostly of men). The subject stands on a little plinth, rather like an ornament on a shelf. In this case the plinth can also be read as a shrinking iceberg floating in Antarctic waters.

Image:

'Leila and the Baby King' 2023
oil on marine ply
40.2cm x 22.6cm

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September 16, 2023

BRIDIE GILLMAN FINALIST IN THE 2023 GIRRA: FRASER COAST NATIONAL ART PRIZE

Bridie Gillman is a finalist in the 2023 Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize for her work 'Quiet, after the storm' (2023).

The inaugural Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize is a major acquisitive prize of $25,000, that seeks to explore our reciprocal and inextricable relationship with the environment through contemporary art.

Selected artworks provide unique perspectives on industrialised landscapes, the forces of extreme weather events, our relationship to domestic gardens, ecological concerns and speculative solutions, ruminations on the beauty and power of nature, and much more.

The finalists’ exhibition, is held at the Hervey Bay Regional Gallery 23 September to 12 November 2023

IMAGE:

Bridie Gillman

Quiet, after the storm 2022

Oil on linen, glazed ceramics and soundscape

various dimensions


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September 2, 2023

JOHN BOKOR FINALIST IN THE 2023 MOSMAN ART PRIZE

Congratulations to our artist John Bokor who is a finalists in this year's Mosman Art Prize for his work 'The Flowering Plant'. Exhibition open 23 September in Mosman, Sydney.


IMAGE:
John Bokor
The Flowering Plant
2023
oil on board
140 x 120 cm

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August 15, 2023

BRIDIE GILLMAN RESIDENCY IN ARRIAOLOS, PORTUGAL

Bridie Gillman completed a residency at Córtex Frontal, for a 6 week placement in an 18th century building located in Arraiolos, Alentejo, Southern Portugal, in April 2023.

Córtex Frontal is a multidisciplinary cultural project created in 2016 by the Cultural Association Córtexcult, in Arraiolos, Évora, Alentejo. The artists in residence program aims to provide the time and space to develop a project, fostering the sharing of experiences between artists and the community.

Bridie's new body of work directly inspired by her time spent at Córtex Frontal will be exhibited in her upcoming show, Watching Walls at Edwina Corlette Gallery 4 October - 24 October 2023.

Córtex Frontal is part of the Portuguese Contemporary Art Networks RPAC.

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May 6, 2023

JANE GUTHLEBEN FEATURED IN SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ARTICLE

Jane Guthelben was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald article 'How does it feel to be painted for the Archibald Prize? Terrifying' by Helen Pitt.

You can read the article here.

May 25, 2022

CHRIS ZANKO FEATURED ON ABC ARTWORKS

Hosted by Namila Benson, Art Works is the ABC's weekly half-hour arts show sharing the most inspiring, surprising, and formative ways that Australian creatives are telling our stories today.

Namila talks to artist Christopher Zanko who shares how he combines woodcarving and painting.

Episode 10 Venice Biennale, Deborah Kelly

Duration: 27 minutes 10 seconds27m


May 6, 2022

Christopher Zanko and Paul Ryan - Sulman Art Prize Finalists

Congratulations to Christopher Zanko and Paul Ryan who are finalists with a collaborative work in the 2022 Sulman Art Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Sulman Prize is awarded for the best subject painting, genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist.

Christopher Zanko and Paul Ryan's work is set against the backdrop of Wollongong in NSW. This painting is concerned with the vulnerability of the changing demographics of an area once defined by coal mining, steelmaking and allied industries.

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PAUL RYAN + CHRISTOPHER ZANKO
Bulli, Rock Steady 2022
oil and acrylic on wood relief carving
120 x 100 cm

July 28, 2021

JANE GUTHLEBEN: FINALIST IN THE SALON DES REFUSES 2021

The alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection

5th June – 26 September 2021

The Salon des Refusés was initiated by the S.H. Ervin Gallery in 1992 in response to the large number of works entered into the Archibald Prize which were not selected for display in the official exhibition. The Archibald Prize is one of Australia’s most high profile and respected awards which attracts hundreds of entries each year and the S.H. Ervin Gallery’s ‘alternative’ selection has become a much anticipated feature of the Sydney scene.

Each year our panel is invited to go behind the scenes of the judging process for the annual Archibald Prize for portraiture and Wynne Prize for landscape painting and figure sculpture at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, to select an exhibition from the many hundreds of works entered in both prizes but not chosen for the official award exhibition.

The Salon des Refusés exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery has established an excellent reputation that rivals the selections in the ‘official’ exhibition, with works selected for quality, diversity, humour and experimentation, and which examine contemporary art practices, different approaches to portraiture and responses to the landscape.

JANE GUTHLEBEN Greetings from Bibbenluke (Lucy Culliton, artist)

April 13, 2021

DAN KYLE AT WANGARATTA ART GALLERY

Dan Kyle's work is part of Wangaratta Art Gallery's exhibition 'Contemporary Landscape Perspectives: A Group Show' from 13 March – 30 May 2021.

This dynamic exhibition of five contemporary landscape Australian painters, Max Berry, Holly Greenwood, Dan Kyle, Bronte Leighton-Dore and Andrew Pye explores individual perspectives of elements of the Australian bush, the terrain, landscape and key symbolism of trees and flora in their immediate environment.

All five artists are emerging as contemporary painters in the Australian art scene. Berry, Greenwood, Kyle and Leighton-Dore are New South Wales based (Sydney and Blue Mountains), the four have partnered with local artist Andy Pye, the group have connections both through friendship but also their oeuvre, their painting practice and style. Each artists surrounding environments are re-interpreted in large scale paintings and works on paper.

This collection of artists and their work presents a diversity of expression and contemporary representation of the Australian Bush.

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March 2, 2021

JOHN BOKOR FINALIST IN THE DOBELL PRIZE FOR DRAWING

John Bokor is a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize with this work titled Lounge Room in Spring 2020, charcoal, wash and collage, 84 x 100 cm.

The Dobell Drawing Prize is the leading drawing exhibition in Australia and an unparalleled celebration of drawing innovation. Presented in partnership with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation (SWDAF), the biennial prize explores the enduring importance of drawing within contemporary art practice.

William Dobell’s love of drawing was recognised in 1993 when the Art Gallery of New South Wales established an annual drawing prize in his name, initiated by the trustees of the SWDAF. For twenty years, the annual Dobell Prize for Drawing encouraged excellence in drawing and draughtsmanship among Australian artists.

IMAGE:
John Bokor
Lounge Room in Spring
2020
charcoal, wash, and collage
84 x 100 cm

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October 14, 2020

DAN KYLE, A RECIPIENT IN THE 2020 BRETT WHITELEY SCHOLARSHIP

For the first time in its 22 year history, the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship has been awarded to five artists, one of whom is Dan Kyle.

Congratulations Charlie Ingemar Harding (Victoria), Emily Grace Imeson (NSW), Dan Kyle (NSW), Lily Platts (NSW) and Georgia Spain (Tasmania).

Art Gallery of New South Wales Director, Michael Brand, said that in one of the most challenging years the arts community has ever experienced he’s delighted that the Scholarship could be awarded, albeit in a different format.

‘That the Scholarship this year is shared between five artists instead of a single artist speaks to the moment we’re in, where we all need to work together and find new ways of thinking for the benefit of our community.

‘The Scholarship remains a prestigious, national painting award and I welcome all five recipients to the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship alumni who have, like Brett Whiteley before them, had their worlds open up as a result of being offered this opportunity to spend time creating work in a new location,’ Brand said.

July 1, 2020

JANE GUTHLEBEN: FINALIST IN THE ARCHIBALD PRIZE 2020

ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Jane Guthleben’s subject is author and journalist Annabel Crabb, who is also known for her cookbooks and TV shows about cooking, Australian politics and history. The pair met some years ago when Annabel bought one of Guthleben’s paintings.

‘I admire Annabel because she energetically juggles full-time work and excellent cooking and has written about the pressures of modern domesticity in The wife drought,’ says Guthleben. ‘The painting aims to portray the public persona of Annabel as a baker, while celebrating the domesticity she writes and podcasts about.

‘I’ve painted her as an ornament on a small pedestal, wearing an apron and holding a wooden spoon – part of a series of ornament-portraits where the subject is transformed into a shelf ornament in a mundane pose. The work is deliberately small in scale to be the opposite of monumental, and pastel colours play upon the stereotype of woman as homemaker, which Annabel somehow manages to transcend.’

A former journalist herself, Guthleben was born in 1966 in Bairnsdale, Victoria. This is her first time in the Archibald Prize.

November 30, 2019

JANE GUTHLEBEN RESIDENCY IN FRANCE

Jane Guthleben was the recipient of the international NG Art Creative Residency which is a two week placement at the 15th century Provincial homestead in Eygalières, Provence, Southern France in November 2019.

Directed and founded by Nicky Ginsberg, the NG Art Creative Residency is a prize that aims to provide creatives an opportunity to embark on imaginative endeavours and immerse themselves in an environment of reflection and creative freedom in the studio and en plein air.

Jane's new body of work from Eygalières will be exhibited in her upcoming show, Grandiflora at Edwina Corlette Gallery 17 March - 9 April 2020.

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September 27, 2019

BRIDIE GILLMAN: FINALIST IN THE BRETT WHITELEY TRAVELLING ART SCHOLARSHIP

Bridie Gillman has been been selected as one of six finalists in the prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The annual Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship is now in its 21st year and is open to Australian painters aged between 20 and 30 years. It was created from an endowment by Mrs Beryl Whiteley in 1999. The inspiration was the profound effect international travel and study had on her son, the artist Brett Whiteley, as a result of winning the Italian Government Travelling Art Scholarship in 1959 at the age of 20.

September 21, 2019

CHRIS ZANKO FINALIST IN THE GOSFORD ART PRIZE

The Gosford Art Prize is the premier art prize of the Central Coast region, with local and national artists engaged in friendly competition for over $25,000 in total prizes.

August 30, 2019

JANE GUTHLEBEN: FINALIST IN THE MOSMAN ART PRIZE

As an acquisitive art award for painting, the winning artworks in the Mosman Art prize form a splendid collection of modern and contemporary Australian art, reflecting all the developments in Australian art practice since 1947. Artists who have won the Mosman Art Prize include Margaret Olley, Guy Warren, Grace Cossington Smith, Weaver Hawkins, Nancy Borlase, Lloyd Rees, Elisabeth Cummings, Adam Cullen, Michael Zavros and Natasha Walsh.

In 2019 Jane Guthleben is a finalist with her work 'North Shore arrangement with superb fruit doves'. She says of the painting:

This work is based on the 17 century Dutch still life floral works by Rachel Ruysch, which have inspired my large floral compositions. For this work I have researched indigenous flora and birds from the Mosman Municipal area that are under pressure from urban encroachment and weeds.

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August 30, 2019

DAN KYLE : FINALIST IN THE MOSMAN ART PRIZE 2019

Dan Kyle's work 'Caught in a Haze' has been selected as a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize

Established in 1947, the Mosman Art Prize is Australia's oldest and most prestigious local government art award. As an acquisitive art award for painting, the winning artworks collected form a splendid collection of modern and contemporary Australian art, reflecting developments in Australian art practice since 1947. Artists who have won the Mosman Art Prize include Margaret Olley, Guy Warren, Grace Cossington Smith, Weaver Hawkins, Nancy Borlase, Lloyd Rees, Elisabeth Cummings, Adam Cullen, Michael Zavros and Natasha Walsh.

Until 27 October 2019, Mosman Art Gallery

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August 19, 2019

CHRIS ZANKO FINALIST IN THE NATIONAL STILL LIFE AWARD AT COFFS HARBOUR REGIONAL GALLERY

Still is a biennial, acquisitive award for artworks in the genre of still life, in all mediums. The award is open to artists at all stages of their careers. Still: National Still Life Award seeks to highlight the diversity and vitality of still life in Australian contemporary art practice, broadening the interpretation and meaning of this enduring genre.

The Still exhibition opens at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery on Friday 20th September 2019, with the official opening on Saturday 21st September, and runs until Saturday 30th November 2019.

Christopher Zanko is a finalist in the 2019 award.

Image: CHRISTOPHER ZANKO 'Sundial' 2019

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July 13, 2019

JOHN BOKOR FINALIST IN THE NATIONAL STILL LIFE AWARD AT COFFS HARBOUR REGIONAL GALLERY

John Bokor's work 'Spring' has been selected as a finalist in the National Still Life Award at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery.

Still is a biennial, acquisitive award for artworks in the genre of still life, in all mediums. The award is open to artists at all stages of their careers. Still: National Still Life Award seeks to highlight the diversity and vitality of still life in Australian contemporary art practice, broadening the interpretation and meaning of this enduring genre. The judge is Rebecca Coates, Director of the Shepparton Art Museum.

The Still exhibition official opening is on Saturday 21st September and is open until Saturday 16th November 2019.


IMAGE:
John Bokor
Spring 2019
oil on board
120 x 120 cm

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July 11, 2019

JANE GUTHLEBEN FINALIST IN THE PORTIA GEACH PRIZE

Jane Guthleben is a finalist in 2019 with her work The scratching post (self, artist).

The Award was established by the will of the late Florence Kate Geach in memory of her sister, Portia Geach. The non-acquisitive prize is awarded by the Trustee for the entry which is of the highest artistic merit, ‘…for the best portrait painted from life of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, or the Sciences by any female artist resident in Australia during the twelve months preceding the close date for entries.’

The 2019 exhibition will run from August 2 to September 15, 2019 at Sydney's S.H. Ervin Gallery.

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June 17, 2019

JOHN BOKOR FINALIST IN THE MUSWELLBROOK ART PRIZE 2019

The Muswellbrook Art Prize began in 1958 as the Festival of the Valley Art Prize and has grown to acquire an excellent collection of Australian artworks. These include modern and contemporary painting, works on paper, and ceramics from the Post War period and now the first two decades of the 21st Century. The Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection was created as a direct result of this ongoing acquisitive art competition.

John Bokor is a finalist in the 2019 prize.


IMAGE:
John Bokor
The Red Velvet Lounge 2018
oil on linen
68 x 91cm

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June 15, 2019

CHRIS ZANKO, WYNNE PRIZE FINALIST, ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Christopher Zanko is a finalist in the 2019 Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales with his work 'Bulli: bricks and black diamonds' 2019.

The Wynne Prize is awarded annually for 'the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists’.

This open competition is judged by the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW. Finalists are displayed in an exhibition at the Gallery (although in the early years all entrants were hung). Many winning paintings have become icons in Australian landscape art, entering the collections of public galleries, including our own.

The prize was established following a bequest by Richard Wynne, who died in 1895, and first awarded in 1897, in honour of the official opening of the Gallery at its present site.

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May 30, 2019

BRIDIE GILLMAN AT MUSEUM OF BRISBANE

Brisbane Art Design festival is a 17-day festival of exhibitions, performances, talks, art tours, workshops and open studios of artists and designers in Brisbane. BAD showcases more than 150 Brisbane artists across all career stages.

Bridie Gillman collaborated with Brisbane designer Alexander Loterztain to make the work Breath as part of the festival held at Museum of Brisbane.

IMAGE:

Jono Searle courtesy Museum of Brisbane.

May 22, 2019

JANE GUTHLEBEN: SALON DES REFUSES 2019

The alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection

11 May – 28 July 2019

The Salon des Refusés was initiated by the S.H. Ervin Gallery in 1992 in response to the large number of works entered into the Archibald Prize which were not selected for display in the official exhibition. The Archibald Prize is one of Australia’s most high profile and respected awards which attracts hundreds of entries each year and the S.H. Ervin Gallery’s ‘alternative’ selection has become a much anticipated feature of the Sydney scene.

Each year our panel is invited to go behind the scenes of the judging process for the annual Archibald Prize for portraiture and Wynne Prize for landscape painting and figure sculpture at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, to select an exhibition from the many hundreds of works entered in both prizes but not chosen for the official award exhibition. Of the 978 entries to the Archibald Prize the AGNSW Trustees selected 52 works, and from 734 entries to the Wynne Prize the Trustees selected 29 works.

From the remaining submission our selectors have chosen 30 works from the Archibald Prize entries and 23 works from the Wynne Prize entries for this alternative exhibition. The 2019 selectors were Brian Langer, director, Cowra Regional Art Gallery and Jane Watters, director, S.H. Ervin Gallery

The Salon des Refusés exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery has established an excellent reputation that rivals the selections in the ‘official’ exhibition, with works selected for quality, diversity, humour and experimentation, and which examine contemporary art practices, different approaches to portraiture and responses to the landscape.

May 18, 2019

BRIDIE GILLMAN WINS MORETON BAY ART AWARD

The Moreton Bay Regional Art Award is an annual acquisitive exhibition proudly sponsored by the Moreton Bay Council. This year the Art Award offered an acquisitive prize of $8000, four category prizes of $2000 each, and two supplementary $1000 prizes for a Local Artist and a People's Choice Award.

Judged by Megan Williams, Manager of the University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Bridie Gillman was awarded the overall winner with her work 'Some sort of growth' 2018.

Megan Williams commented: 'The artist's sense of the materiality of paint, the play of colour, darkness and light make it a very strong and visually arresting painting. The colours reference the natural environment and you get a sense of the artists awe and love of nature, however, its abstract quality resists clear and direct communication. It is a work to become immersed in, to sit with, and to contemplate.'

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May 14, 2019

JOHN BOKOR FINALIST IN THE SULMAN PRIZE AT THE ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

John Bokor is a finalist in the 2019 Sulman Prize, administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The Sulman Prize is awarded in the terms of the gift of the family of the late Sir John Sulman, to the best genre painting and/or mural project done by an artist resident in Australia during the five years preceding the date fixed by the Trustees for sending in entries.


'Four thirty pm' s from a group of works I started making in 2017 depicting interior spaces. They are hybrid paintings of real and imagined scenes made using an airbrush and traditional painting tools. This painting took a very long time to resolve. I thought at one point in 2018 that it was finished and had it framed, only to realise early this year that it needed more work. I treated it as badly as it had me and sanded the surface down and reworked the whole painting, destroying most of what was underneath. When it was finally finished the light in the studio resembled the light in the painting. I checked my clock and it was 4.30pm.

- John Bokor, 2019


IMAGE:
John Bokor
Four thirty pm
2019
oil on board
125 x 147 cm

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May 6, 2019

DAN KYLE FEATURED IN ARTIST PROFILE MAGAZINE

In 2015 Owen Craven wrote about Dan Kyle, his studio and life in the bush near the Blue Mountains —

Soon after graduating from the National Art School, Dan Kyle set up home deep within the Australian bush at the foot of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. His paintings are translations of what he sees – the beauty, the unique forms, the colours – but also his way of reducing the density of the bush to a more approachable landscape for him to keep exploring. Back in Issue 32, 2015, Artist Profile chatted to Dan about the formal and conceptual nuances of his landscapes.

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March 28, 2019

CHRIS ZANKO REVIEWED IN COAL COAST MAGAZINE

Christopher Zanko’s depictions of classic Australian suburbia and architecture – created through carving and painting – feel happy and nostalgic, as though cementing a time in local history, while also celebrating the beauty of an everyday normal.

“These days a lot of homes and buildings are being knocked down, so the area is not going to look like this for much longer,” Chris says. “It's great to be able to capture these beautiful buildings while they’re still here.”

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February 27, 2019

CHRIS ZANKO IN COUNTRY STYLE MAGAZINE

Thirroul artists Chris Zanko and Paul Ryan are featured in the current issue of Country Style Magazine. The article looks at the richness of creative talent on the Coal Coast in the Illawarra region of New South Wales and their deep connection to the area.

February 27, 2019

CHRIS ZANKO IN HAPPY MAGAZINE

Sydney based Art and Music publication Happy Mag recently caught up with artist and musician Chris Zanko to discuss his life down south, what inspires his works and the creative process from the start of a piece to its final product.

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February 5, 2019

BRIDIE GILLMAN FEATURES IN ART ASIA PACIFIC MAGAZINE

Bridie Gillman's work as featured in Woven Kolektif's looking here, looking north exhibition at Casula Powerhouse has been reviewed in Art Asia Pacific Magazine.

At the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney, a video portrays the interior of a restaurant, its walls decorated with Australian-flag bunting, and kitsch Australiana tea towels and posters, positioning us inside an ostensibly Australian establishment. It is revealed in subsequent shots of the staff, clientele, and the beach outside, however, that this is in fact a tourist spot in Bali. Bridie Gillman’s video work Bali State of Mind (2017–18) ruminates on the unequal power dynamic between Australia and Indonesia, the latter being economically reliant on tourism and subject to the objectifying tourist gaze that comes with over one million Australians visiting annually.

Gillman is one of seven artists included in the exhibition 'looking here looking north' by members of Woven, a collective with “continuing personal connections to Indonesia.” While Gillman’s work is subtly political, the exhibition holistically was striking in its ability to reach beyond essentialist identity politics, reconfiguring what it means to be part of the Indonesian diaspora by speaking to universal themes of memory, place and belonging.

- Soo-Min Shim, Art Asia Pacific Magazine


looking here looking north is on view at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, 12 January - March 17, 2019


IMAGE:

Bridie Gillman

Bali state of mind (still) 2017–18

two-channel video installation

17 min 40 sec

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January 16, 2019

BRIDIE GILLMAN AT CASULA POWERHOUSE

looking here looking north is an exhibition by Woven, a collective of artists who each have continuing personal connections to Indonesia. Themes of identity, memory and cross-cultural experience are explored through performance, painting, installation, photography, video and sculpture.

Featuring work by: Kartika Suharto-Martin, Ida Lawrence, Mashara Wachjudy, Bridie Gillman, Sofiyah Ruqayah, Alfira O’Sullivan and Leyla Stevens.

looking here looking north is presented alongside an exhibition by artist Frances Larder and an exhibition of video works by Jumaadi as part of a suite of exhibitions showcasing perspectives on Indonesia.

The exhibition is on view at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, 12 January - March 17, 2019

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November 12, 2018

JOHN BOKOR HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE EMSLA ART AWARD

Congratulations to John Bokor who has been awarded a highly commended in the 2018 EMSLA prize.

Now in its twelfth year, the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award comes to Wollongong to coincide with the city’s signature festival, Viva La Gong. Judged annually by critic and art historian John McDonald, the EMSLA has added prestige to the festival and increased still life’s importance as a genre in art.

9 November - 1 December 2018

IMAGE:
John Bokor
Aperol and Oranges
2018
oil on canvas
61x76cm

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November 7, 2018

CHRIS ZANKO AT HAZELHURST REGIONAL GALLERY

Chris Zanko's work is included in Hazelhurst's Regional Gallery's exhibition Life in Working Art, an exhibition presenting a diverse selection of works from the Gallery's installation team.

3 November - 13 November 2018

October 9, 2018

JOHN BOKOR FINALIST IN THE KEDUMBA DRAWING AWARD

John Bokor is a finalist in the Kedumba Drawing Award at Orange Regional Gallery. Now in its 29th year, the Award plays a vital role in fostering the production and appreciation of drawing in Australia. Initiated by Jeffrey and Marlene Plummer in 1989, the Kedumba Drawing Award has grown steadily. Each year, the Judge is an established artist whose only guideline is “to enrich and enhance the Collection”

The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings, with over 230 works, is currently on long term loan to Orange Regional Gallery. It is an Orange Regional Gallery and Kedumba Trust partnership exhibition.

The award is open 20 October - 2 December, 2018.

IMAGE:
John Bokor
Weekend Away 2018
charcoal, wash and collage
56x76cm

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October 5, 2018

STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES PERMANENT COLLECTION

John Bokor's artwork, 'Collection Day' 2011 is now on permanent display at the State Library of New South Wales. The new gallery space opens 6th October 2018.

'Collection Day' shows Organs Road, Bulli, looking east, the morning after garbage collection day. The bins, with lids flung open, capture the everyday aspect of suburban recycling practice. This loose and lively suburban street scene celebrates the commonplace.


IMAGES:

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John Bokor
Collection Day
2011
oil on board
90 x 120cm

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Installation view of State Library of New South Wales with John Bokor and his painting Collection Day, 2011

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October 4, 2018

FISHER'S GHOST ART AWARD 2018

John Aslanidis, Belem Lett and Bridie Gillman are finalists in the 2018 Fisher's Ghost Award through Campbelltown Arts Centre.

The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award is part of Campbelltown’s annual Festival of Fisher’s Ghost. Held over 10 days, the Festival dates back to 1956 and celebrates Australia’s most famous ghost – Frederick Fisher.

The Open section of the Art Award is acquisitive to the Campbelltown Art Centre permanent collection and the artist is awarded prize-money of $20,000. Over the years, the prize has been won by some of Australia's most well respected contemporary artists.

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September 30, 2018

JOHN BOKOR, FINALIST IN THE TATTERSALL'S ART PRIZE

John Bokor is a finalist in the 2018 Tattersall's Art Prize with his work A Walk in the Park 2018, oil on canvas, 108x122cm.

A total of 93 artists across Australia accepted the invitation to participate in the 2018 Tattersall's Club and Mercedes-Benz Toowong Landscape Art Prize Award. The prize is acquistive and the winning painting is added to the Club's art collection. The judging panel for 2018 includes Dr David Middlebrook, former Tattersall's Art Prize winner and senior painting lecturer, Mrs Bettina MacAuley, Gallery and Museum Consultant Antiques and Fine Art Valuer, Ms Angela Goddard, Director of Griffith University Art Gallery and Mr Stuart Waddington, Committee Member of Tattersall's Club.

- Stuart Fraser, Tattersall's Club 2018

IMAGE:
John Bokor
A Walk in the Park 2018
oil on canvas
108 x 122 cm

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September 12, 2018

CHRIS ZANKO AT WOLLONGONG ART GALLERY

Christopher Zanko's wood relief carved work 'Redman Ave Reflections' is included in Wollongong Art Gallery's exhibition Here + Now.

Co-curated by Wollongong Art Gallery and Aaron Fell-Fracasso, Here + Now celebrates the diverse and unique creative energy of the Wollongong region and includes works by Jessica Cochrane, Tex Crick, Ebony Eden, Misha Harrison, India Mark, Paige Northwood, Nick Santoro and Chris Zanko.

1 September - 25 November 2018

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August 22, 2018

CHARMAINE PIKE FINALIST IN THE PADDINGTON ART PRIZE

Now in its 15th year, the annual Paddington Art Prize is a national acquisitive award for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape – a significant contemporary genre with a long tradition in Australian painting and a key contributor to our national ethos.

The Paddington Art Prize offers $30,000 to the overall winner. Louisa Antico from Sofala Cottage will offer a selected artist a one week retreat at her historic miner’s cottage in Sofala in the Turon Valley, 40km north of Bathurst on the road to Hill End; and Defiance Gallery Directors, Campbell Robertson-Swann and Lauren Harvey will select two artists to have an exhibition with Defiance Gallery at Mary Place Gallery in Sydney. Winners of the Defiance Gallery Prize will also receive an invitation to the Nock Art Foundation Residency, Queenstown, New Zealand during 2019 including three weeks accommodation at ‘Giverny’ with studio facilities.

Charmaine Pike is a finalist in 2018.

Image: Charmaine Pike The Soft Pink Truth 2018, 120 x 150cm, acrylic on canvas

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April 23, 2018

NOW REPRESENTING CHARMAINE PIKE

The Gallery is delighted to announce we now represent Charmaine Pike.

The paintings of Charmaine Pike allude to the remote landscape, its geographical features and natural formations, embedded or rather personified with human emotion. Her use of bold lines, form and colour probe deep into the human condition, dealing with psychological tensions within the self and the environment we inhabit.

Melissa Pesa, Artist Profile November 2017

Charmaine was selected as a finalist in The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing in 2010, The Mosman Art Prize 2013, The Paddington Art Prize 2015 and 2016. In 2012, her solo exhibition at Tamworth Regional Gallery was met with great acclaim. In 2014 she was selected by Angus Nivison for ‘Place and Practice’ the Regional Arts Australia National Visual Arts Showcase in Parliament House, Canberra. 

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March 7, 2018

BRIDIE GILLMAN / THE DESIGN FILES

Jo Hoban from the Design Files recently caught up with Bridie Gillman in her Brisbane studio.

Brisbane-based artist Bridie Gillman is inspired by cross-cultural experiences – from a childhood growing up in Indonesia, to residencies abroad and trips across Australia. Her bold, striking compositions convey moody landscapes, exploring both emotional and physical terrain.

- Jo Hoban, the Design Files

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March 6, 2018

DAN KYLE / THE PLANTHUNTER

Dan Kyle has been featured on the Planthunter, who visited Dan at his spectacular home and studio in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.

The Planthunter is an online magazine devoted to celebrating plants and the varied ways humans interact with them. Plants have been inspiring, feeding, sustaining and soothing humans for aeons. The Planthunter documents and celebrates these connections. 

'The rusted metal entrance gate rolls open revealing a four-meter-tall man with a gas mask staring at us from amongst the trees. A collection of huge sculptures lay scattered around him – the scene creates quite an entry statement, heightening my curiosity about the man we’ve headed up to the mountains to meet, artist Dan Kyle.'

READ THE ARTICLE HERE

March 6, 2018

NOW REPRESENTING CHRIS ZANKO

The Gallery is delighted to announce we now represent Illawarra based artist Chris Zanko.

The streets of Australian suburbia with their red brick houses, electricity pole-lined streets and rusty Hills Hoist-filled backyards provide endless inspiration for Chris Zanko's work.  His carved wooden surfaces depicting iconic mid-century architecture capture a nostalgic view of the vernacular architecture of our suburbs. 

Zanko graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts at Wollongong University with Distinction in Painting. He was a winner of the 2016 Gosford and Gongcrete Art Prizes and a finalist in the 2015 Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award. He has exhibited in group exhibitions including at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Project Contemporary Art Space in Wollongong. 

March 6, 2018

DAN KYLE IN ARTIST PROFILE MAGAZINE

The Gallery is delighted to now represent Dan Kyle.  

Owen Craven profiled Dan and his practice in a recent online article for Artist Profile magazine.

'Soon after graduating from the National Art School, Dan Kyle set up home deep in the Australian bush at the foot of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.  His paintings are translations of what he sees - the beauty, the unique forms, the colours - but also his way of reducing the density of the bush to a more approachable landscape for him to keep exploring.'

READ THE ARTICLE HERE

November 21, 2017

CHARMAINE PIKE FEATURED IN ARTIST PROFILE MAGAZINE

Melissa Pesa interviews Charmaine Pike in the November edition of Artist profile magazine. She writes:

The paintings of Charmaine Pike allude to the remote landscape, its geographical features and natural formations, embedded or rather personified with human emotion. Her use of bold lines, form and colour probe deep into the human condition, dealing with psychological tensions within the self and the environment we inhabit.

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19 November 2025 – 9 December 2025
Jane Guthleben

26 February 2025 – 18 March 2025
Bridie Gillman

26 February 2025 – 18 March 2025
‘See The Sun’ Curated by Bridie Gillman featuring Jordan Azcune, Amelia Carroll, Nancy Constandelia, Nicolette Johnson, Lauren O'Connor, Cosima Scales, Bridie Gillman

14 December 2024 – 2 February 2025
THE SUMMER SHOW

6 – 26 November 2024
DAN KYLE 'Aurora Meander'

25 September 2024 – 15 October 2024
Bridie Gillman ‘Ground Work’

3 – 24 September 2024
THE SPRING SHOW

15 – 31 August 2024
Jane Guthleben ‘Sea Flower’

12 June 2024 – 2 July 2024
John Bokor ‘Studio Stories’

19 December 2023 – 30 January 2024
THE SUMMER SHOW

7 – 21 December 2023
SMALL WORKS - Click and Collection

17 August 2023 – 5 September 2023
Jane Guthleben ‘Evergreen’

29 November 2022 – 28 February 2023
THE SUMMER SHOW

27 September 2022 – 15 October 2022
Bridie Gillman ‘Wash Over Me’

19 July 2022 – 6 August 2022
Jane Guthleben ‘Wollemi to Wilpena’

26 April 2022 – 14 May 2022
John Bokor ‘Domestic Splendour’

23 November 2021 – 15 December 2021
THE ART OF CHRISTMAS | ONLINE ONLY

9 – 27 November 2021
Dan Kyle ‘Garden on the Edge’

3 – 21 August 2021
Jane Guthleben ‘Florilegium’

11 – 29 May 2021
Bridie Gillman ‘Amongst’

16 July 2020 – 5 August 2020
Christopher Zanko ‘Heretofore’

17 March 2020 – 15 April 2020
Jane Guthleben ‘Grandiflora’

29 January 2020 – 19 February 2020
Bridie Gillman ‘With the Sun in My Eyes’

8 – 23 November 2019
DAN KYLE 'Caught In A Haze'

18 July 2019 – 7 August 2019
JOHN BOKOR 'At My Table'

26 June 2019 – 17 July 2019
THE NEW GALLERY SHOW — A Group Exhibition

19 February 2019 – 9 March 2019
BRIDIE GILLMAN 'Wide Eyed'

30 January 2019 – 16 February 2019
JANE GUTHLEBEN 'Posy'

12 – 16 September 2018
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR - DAN KYLE, MIRANDA SKOCZEK, MARK WHALEN, YARRENYTY ARLTERE ARTISTS

29 August 2018 – 15 September 2018
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

3 – 23 February 2017
Bridie Gillman ‘Overnight’

3 – 12 November 2016
BRIDIE GILLMAN Online Only