Travel happens to most of us, by design or circumstance. Two Australian artists put new roots into the old and fertile soils of Northern and Southern Europe enriched with the history and place-makings of others. Their work distils what speaks to us, across millennia and miles. Image: Maryanne Wick ‘The Menagerie (La coleccion de animales)’ 2024, oil collage on canvas, 30 x 40 cm
‘For the first time, the museum [Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid] is devoting a retrospective to a Spanish woman artist, Isabel Quintanilla (1938-2017), one of the key figures of contemporary realism.’ Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum. 2024.
Curator’s Choice: Selected work from the stockroom and studio. November 2nd – 18th 2023 Featuring: Jane Chandler, Mark Dober, Rachel Ellis, Dianne Emery, Sara Freeman, David Hamilton, Kirrily Hammond, Sallie Moffatt, Ian Parry, Evan Salmon, Alexandra Sasse, John Scurry, Maryanne Wick. ‘South Bruni Island’ Ian Parry 2023, oil on canvas, 92 x 107cm. ‘Windmills’ Kirrily …
Nicholas Chadderton ‘Eksistentielle’. Featuring the iconic forms and fleeting light of the urban landscape of Melbourne, suggesting an existential angst beneath the surface of visual beauty.
What exactly are the key concerns of contemporary Australian landscape painting? And who wants to know? Alexandra Sasse takes you deeper into these latest landscapes in this review of the John Leslie Art Prize 2022.
Draw 2022 July 21st – August 20th featuring twelve artists with a deep and longstanding engagement with the medium.