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 »
SMH review of Salon des Refuses 2020 by John McDonald 14 October 2020
To read revue click on photo. Salon des Refusés 2020
SMH Review for 2020 Porcia Geach Memorial by John McDonald
To read the review click on the title. Portia Geach Memorial Award 2020
Highly Commended for Portrait of Myfanwy Gullifer for Porcia 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 2020
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 »
Salon des Refuses 2020
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 »
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2020
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.
Selected as a finalist – The Portia Geach Memorial Award 2020 – 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 »
Choose Art/Give Light to Refugees
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 »
Glover Prize for Landscape. 2020
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 »