I’ve been selected as a finalist in the 2018 Korea-Australia Arts Foundation art Prize. Exhibition open – Friday 30 November and runs till Friday 25 Jan. The venue – Korean Cultural Centre Australia 255 Elizabeth Street Sydney ‘Black and White Cat with Black and White Dress’ – acrylic on canvas 167 x 152cm… Read more »
Contemporary Gallipoli – Blue Mountains City Art Gallery
‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ – mixed media assemblage 122 x 70 x 20cm. Three of my works are included in ‘Contemporary Gallipoli’, a Macquarie University Gallery Touring Exhibition curated by Meredith Brice. The exhibition runs from 20 October – 25 November 2018 Co-inciding with the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI,… Read more »
Portia Geach Memorial Award – S.H. Ervin Gallery 2018
‘Self Portrait in Blue Dress’ 60 x 60cm acrylic on canvas has been selected as a finalist in the 2018 Portia Geach Memorial Award, an art prize for portraiture by women artists of people from Art, Letters or the Sciences. Self-portraiture is strange, introspective, revealing and exposing, landing somewhere between vanity and self mockery. The self-examination… Read more »
Assemblages featured in Brazil’s TPM Magazine
‘Hugging Metal’ mixed media sculpture, 40 x 40 x 40cm – a series of sculptural assemblages including Hugging Metal have been featured in Brazil’s TPM magazine and on their revistatpm instagram feed. These works were part of Domestic Lives, from my 2008 Manly Art Gallery and Museum exhibition in. TPM explores women’s issues and insists… Read more »
Marina Finlay’s painting ‘Peter, Coco and Susan O’Doherty’ – Archibald Prize AGNSW 2018
A painting by Marina Finlay was selected to hang in the Archibald Prize for 2018. ‘Peter, Coco and Susan O’Doherty’ – oil on canvas 64 x 79cm. Peter O’Doherty is a painter and musician. The bass player for Mental As Anything from 1977 to 2000, he is currently a singer-songwriter with the band Dog Trumpet.… Read more »
Press Release ‘Inhabited Architecture’ exhibition Chrissie Cotter Gallery
Freya Jobbins, Mandy Burgess, Susan O’Doherty and Ro Murray infront of ‘You Never Tell The Truth’ acrylic on canvas 213 x 197cm – PRESS RELEASE Victoria Hynes – Arts Writer “Cities, like dreams, are made of hopes and fears” — Italo Calvino, The invisible Cities. … Read more »
‘Inhabited Architecture’- Chrissie Cotter Gallery Pidcock St Camperdown – opening Wed 14 March.
‘Inhabited Architecture’ – an exhibition featuring Ro Murray, Freya Jobbins, Mandy Burgess and Susan O’Doherty exploring the representation of memory, emotion, and family tensions in relation to the houses that we occupy. The exhibition includes drawing, painting, assemblage, sculpture and installation. To be opened by Simon Chan, Director at Art Atrium and SCA Architects. Wed… Read more »
Guide Dog Installation – AMP Building 2018
To mark the 60th anniversary, Guide Dogs, NSW/ACT is staging an art installation outside the AMP Building in Sydney of 60 life size dogs to be exhibited from the 16th February for the opening of the Sydney Chinese New Year Festival 2018. There will be a follow up auction of the dogs in March to… Read more »
Hunting Season – Studio Exhibition: Eygalieres, Provence France
Interior Studio Shot. ‘Blue Bed’ – acrylic on canvas. 137 x 122cm – NG Art Creative Residency Opening Night 26th November 2017 Throughout October and November 2017 I was an artist in residence at NG Art Creative Residency in Eygalieres, Provence, Southern France. During my stay I made paintings which were exhibited in the… Read more »
Still – National Still Life Award 2017 – Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
Behind Closed Doors – acrylic on canvas 167 x 152cm, selected for Still: National Still Life Award at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery. Opening 6-8pm November 25. There are 63 artists exhibiting with painting, ceramics, photography and 3D works.