The Ladder – Glass Ceiling     mixed media assemblage   144 x 90 x 35cm     (cotton, paint, wood, wool, stilettos and childrens shoes). The Ladder – Glass Ceiling is hanging in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown Arts Centre 31 Oct-11 Dec.   It doesn’t matter what you do, say or where you’re educated, it’s still… Read more »

To read revue click on photo.   Salon des Refusés 2020

To read the review click on the title. Portia Geach Memorial Award 2020

My painting of Myfanwy Gullifer was awarded highly commended in the Porcia Geach Memorial Award 2020 The judges were: Anita Belgiorno-Nettis – Trustee of Art Gallery of New South Wales;  Natalie Wilson – Curator of Australia and Pacific Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Jane Watters – Director of S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney… Read more »

Sedition Arts Festival – 15 October to 14 November 2020   The SEDITION festival is in its second year, an art trail that snakes through Sydney from Chinatown to Potts Point. Artists include Brooke Andrew, Blak Douglas, Reg Mombassa, Julie Rapp, Luke Sciberras, Tamara Dean, Susan O’Doherty, Claudia Chan Shaw, Jason Wing, Destiny Deacon, Stuart Spence, Toby Zoates,… Read more »

My portrait of Merran Esson has been selected in this year’s Salon des Refuses exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery. Exhibition runs Saturday Sep 28  –  Sunday November 29. Recently retiring as Head of Ceramics at National Art School, Merran is one of Australia’s most respected ceramicists, working, exhibiting and teaching for over 40 years. … Read more »

Congratulations to Caroline Zilinsky for winning the 2020 Portia Geach Award for her portrait of Anthea Pilko ‘Anthea May or May Not’. Highly Commended went to Natasha Walsh for her self portrait and to my painting ‘Myfanwy Gullifer in olive green coat’. Photograph of Myfanwy and myself at the S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney.  

The Portia Geach Memorial Award is an art prize for portraiture by women artists.  The Award was established in the will of the late Florence Kate Geach in memory of her artist sister Portia Geach. Exhibition  15 August – 20 September 2020 S.H. Ervin Gallery   Watson Road, Observatory Hill Sydney Portrait of Myfanwy Gullifer in Olive… Read more »

FYI (For your Information) mixed media assemblage  is included in a 3 week silent online art auction to raise proceeds to Help Refugees, a charity movement established to provide humanitarian aid to refugees especially those affected by the current COVID 19 pandemic.  14o artists from around the world are taking part in this project. hhtp:/aap.galabid.com/chooseart.… Read more »

Mathinna and Lady Jane Franklin at Ancanthe in the foothills of Mount Wellington. Acrylic on canvas. 167 x 188cm This painting of the landscape around Hobart depicts the Aboriginal girl Mathinna and Lady Franklin in front of ‘Ancanthe’, the art museum modelled after a Greek temple that Lady Franklin had built at the base of… Read more »