Seven Artists will be in conversation with Nick Tsoutas – Independent Curator and Former Director of Sydney College of Art Galleries and former Director of Artspace. Michelle Belgiorno, Tony Costa, Kaye Mahoney, Teena McCarthy, Susan O’Doherty, Laurens Tan, William Yang.   Saturday, 12 November 2022  2.30-4.30pm. 12 Daniel Street -Daphne Street. Botany      

My painting of Fiona Lowry is mentioned in SMH Spectrum Arts article by John McDonald – ‘Susan O’Doherty’s Fiona Lowry with Red Cushion is an apparently straight forward likeness that offers up its complexities in a gradual fashion.  The artist’s use of solid planes of contracting and complementary colour is trickier than it seems.  So… Read more »

The Portia Geach Memorial Award is an annual 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  16 September – 6 November 2022. Fiona Lowry with Red Cushion    acrylic on canvas  152 x 102cm… Read more »

Green Leather Bag  – acrylic on canvas   61 x 61cm   2022 This exhibition features over 80  Australian artists who have donated works of art for an on-site and online exhibition to support the people of Ukraine.  100% of the funds raised will be donated to voices.org.au   Exhibition to be opened by Richard Cass Thursday … Read more »

I will be doing an artists’ talk along with my partner Peter O’Doherty at Maitland Regional Art Gallery on Friday 14th January 2022 from 6-7pm.  We’ll be talking about the work we made for the group exhibition ‘A Conspicuous Object – The Maitland Hospital.  Peter’s paintings are a response to the way Maitland Hospital has undergone… Read more »

  Movers & Shapers II –  Land/Women/Sculpture focuses on the landscape through a female lens – 29 artists respond to women and the land through different mediums, emphasising relief and sculpture work.  This is a biannual exhibition project founded Louisa Chircop in collaboration with curator Carrie Kibbler.   19 November – 5 December 2021.    Broadhurst… Read more »

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   November 4 – December 19   2021 Margaret Ackland in a Chequered Dress      acrylic on canvas    122… Read more »

It was wonderful to talk with Craig Foster and Mostafa Azimitabar (Moz) at my exhibition ‘Walking the Plank Without a Shadow.’  Craig is a great ambassador and advocate for human rights and the plight of refugees.  Moz joined in on the conversation and spoke of his 8 years of detention as an Iranian Kurdish minority… Read more »

On Saturday 13 November I will be in conversation with Craig Foster AM  ( Australia Multicultural Council Adjunct Professor, Torrens University, Australia Committee, Human Rights Watch Ambassador, Amnesty International.  2.30 – 4.30 at Art Atrium  12 Daniel Street Botany.

The Maitland Exhibition – A Conspicuous Object/The Maitland Hospital A group exhibition with nine other artists responding to the history and stories about the hospital from 1840 to the present day.  The exhibition presents both familiar and unfamiliar moments, invites reflection, offers challenges, and evokes the complex and layered nature of this object that has… Read more »