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 »

My painting ‘Mathinna and Lady Jane Franklin at Ancanthe in the Foothills of Mount Wellington’ has been selected to hang as a finalist in the Glover Prize for landscape 2020. The exhibition is to be opened by Chris Saines, Director: Queensland Art Gallery – Museum of Modern Art (QAGOMA) on 6 March and runs Saturday 7 March –… Read more »

I was asked to donate an artwork to be auctioned off at a gala dinner and silent auction on Friday November 15 to raise money to secure the Sydney Peace Prize. Me Too leaders, founder Tarana Burke and co-founder of NOW Australia Tracey Spicer AM are accepting the Peace Prize for: “empowering survivors of sexual… Read more »

I was commissioned early in 2019 by Calder Flower Architects to make artworks incorporating mid century leadlight windows from a soon to be demolished and rebuilt old aged care facility in Turrumurra.  They wanted the saved windows to be repurposed into an artwork, possibly sculptural so I decided to use LED light boxes set within three wall pieces.… Read more »

I am exhibiting in the 8th Beijing International Art Biennale China 2019 held in the National Art Museum Beijing. The theme of the exhibition is  ‘A Colourful World and a Shared Future’. ‘Three Spotted Chairs’  acrylic on canvas  168 x 152cm ‘Three Spotted Chairs’ is a painting depicting three disembodied garments, a mother and children… Read more »

Teena  McCarthy and I will be talking at the S H Ervin Gallery this Sunday afternoon August 18th as part of the Portia Geach Prize exhibition program.  We’ll talk about my painting of Teena and she will recite some of her poetry. Zuza Zochowski will also be talking about her self portrait.   Starts at… Read more »

Exhibition  Thursday 1st August – Sunday 15th September  2019 Portrait of Teena McCarthy in Flannelette Shirt  – Artist and Poet acrylic on canvas  70 x 55cm   2019 Teena McCarthy is a multi-media artist and poet working predominantly in painting, photography and performance art. She is an Italian/Barkindji woman who is a descendant of the… Read more »