This painting "La Preca - Jacquemus", one of three from the La Preca triptych, has been selected as a finalist in the Tatiara Art Prize.
Judging is by Lauren Mustillo, Visual Art Manager at Country Arts SA, Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the Art Gallery of South Australia and Joshua White, Director of the Hamilton Art Gallery. It's on at the Walkway Gallery and runs from 16 September until 11 November.
My work "La Preca - Louis Vuitton" has been selected as a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize. Out of an extensive pool of submissions from all over the nation, only a prestigious group of 40 exceptional pieces secured their place as finalists, including the works of esteemed luminaries such as Fiona Lowry, Esther Erlich, Dagmar Cryulla, and Michael Simms.
The Sunshine Coast Art Prize exhibition is currently being showcased at the Caloundra Regional Gallery, at 22 Omrah Avenue, Caloundra, QLD 4551.
Art enthusiasts and connoisseurs alike have the opportunity to appreciate and engage with the exceptional offering from the 18th of August until the 15th of October.
The Eutick Memorial Still Life Award opens at 6pm on Friday the 8th November 2019 at Project Contemporary Art Space, 255 Keira St, Wollongong.
I am absolutely thrilled to be a part of this new museum exhibition. Quality conceptual realism has been something of a phenomenon in Australia, remarkable for a number of reasons: firstly the quality of the paintings by all the artists have been extraordinary, and the fact that thought-provoking painting has re-emerged again after years of being “unfashionable” with curators.
While recognised by the commercial galleries, this is the first museum show what moves towards recognising this phenomenon. A Fine Romance' is an exhibition about beauty and deceit. Featuring hyper-real paintings and sculptures by a range of contemporary artists, it is as seductive as it is awe-inspiring.
Drawing on the Gallery’s collection, together with dazzling artworks sourced from behind the closed doors of private collectors, A Fine Romance is an experience not to be missed!
The line-up represents a who’s-who of Australian realism, including Natasha Bieniek, Robin Eley, Louise Feneley, Juan Ford, Sam Jinks, Sam Leach, Matt Martin, Shannon Smiley, Heidi Yardley, and Michael Zavros.
Exhibition is on st the Gippsland Art Gallery, 70 Foster Street, Sale 2850
And it opens 8 December 2018 and ends 17 February 2019
The painting The Rules Of Engagement has been selected as a finalist for Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize.
Past winners include some of Australia’s most respected Contemporary artists including Elisabeth Cummings, Khaled Sabsabi, Justene Williams, David Bromley, Marion Borgelt, Raquel Ormella and Philip Wolfhagen.
Its on at the Campbelltown Arts Centre, 1 Art Gallery Rd, Campbelltown, NSW 2560
And is showing daily Saturday 3 November – Thursday 13 December 2018
The painting The Bare Necessities has been selected as a finalist for this year’s Eutick memorial Still Life Award.
EMSLA celebrates excellence in still life painting and welcomes the influences of impressionism, abstraction, realism and hyperrealism (indeed all the isms) in all their permutations
Exhibition is on at Project Contemporary Art Space, 255 Keira St, Wollongong NSW 2500 and runs from Friday 9th November to December 1st 2018 at
The painting Utmost Respect has been selected as a finalist for this year’s Mosman Art Prize.
It will be on display at the Mosman Art gallery From the 26 September to 18 November.
The painting Acceptance and Hope has been selected by the jurors as a finalist submitted work has been selected as a finalist for the 2018 Kennedy Prize.
The exhibition is at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts
Level One, corner North Terrace & Kintore Avenue, Adelaide SA
and it runs from Friday, 7 September to Saturday, 23 September
Thrilled to have one of my most important paintings, Utmost Respect, selected for the inaugural Vincent Art Prize alongside fellow Nanda/Hobbs artists James Drinkwater and Paul Ryan.
Run by Artvango and judged by painter Alan Jones, the prize opened earlier this evening at duckrabbit, 138 Little Eveleigh Street, Chippendale Sydney.
Image: Matthew Quick \ Utmost Respect \ 2016 \ Oil on Italian linen \ 120x100cm
I'm honoured to be selected as one of the finalists in the North Sydney Art Prize 2017, with the painting The Clarity of Hindsight.
Its on from 11-26 March 2017 at the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, 2 Balls Head Drive, Waverton NSW
The Opening and award ceremony is at 2pm on Saturday 11 March and there is a public program of artist talks and workshops on Saturday 18, Sunday 19, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March
Perhaps my favourite paintings of the whole Monumental Nobodies series, Home of the Free, has been selected as one of the 30 finalists in the $10,000 Bluethumb Art Prize. It will be exhibited at No Vacancy Gallery at 34-40 Jane Bell Lane, Melbourne from 20 January - 29 January
With 1140 artists submitting exclusive originals, this new prize is bigger than the Archibald. The exhibition was selected by an eclectic judging panel of 12 industry experts, including Penny Griggs, General Manager of SALA (South Australian Living Artists Festival); June Mills, Indigenous music star, visual artist and traditional owner of Larrakia land; and qualified art curator (and Real Housewives of Melbourne star) Gina Liano.
The painting The Last Lap has been selected as a finalist for the $20,000 2016 Fishers Ghost Art Prize.
Previous recipients of the prize include Elisabeth Cummings, Khaled Sabsabi, Justene Williams, David Bromley, Marion Borgelt, Raquel Ormella and Philip Wolfhagen.
This will be the first time this picture has been exhibited in New South Wales, where I most regularly show. So if you are interested to see it in person, make your way to the Campbelltown Arts Centre from 29 October until 15 December.
The painting Land of the Free has been selected as one of 30 finalists in the Albany Art Prize. Now in its 9th year, the $25,000 prize continues to play an important role in the cultural and economic development of the Great Southern region.
The three judges were; Stefano Carboni, Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia; Michael Edwards, Director, Contemporary Art Tasmania; and Mark Stewart, Curator, Murdoch University collection, Western Australia.
It's an honour to be chosen for any curated prize and I am extraordinarily fortunate to have been selected for 74 major prizes. Ever wanting to refine my work, this picture has had an multi year gestation and was finally finished only the day before this competition closed.
The exhibition is on from 3 September - 16 October 2016 at Carol Pettersen Hall, Albany Town Hall, 217 York St, Albany WA
The painting The View From Above was selected from over 1400 paintings as a finalist in this year's Stanthorpe Art Prize. It will be on display at the Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, Queensland, from May 26 to July 17.
Real Australians Say Welcome
This portrait of provocative artist Abdul Abdulla has been selected as semi-finalist in the $150,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2015.
I'm absolutely thrilled to be elected for the second consecutive year as a finalist in the Kilgour Art Prize. This $50,000 annual prize for figurative and portrait painting awards is assessed by two independent judges and Sarah Johnson, Curator Newcastle Art Gallery.
The exhibition is on show at the Newcastle Art Gallery from 8 November through to 25 January 2016.
Occasionally iconography exists that is so prevalent, so much a part of the zeitgeist, it is difficult to maintain perspective on how ridiculous it really is.
Think of Santa, so obese he’s not in any shape to climb down chimneys, let alone make it around the world in a single night. At least not without having a stroke, anyway. And what of the Playboy Bunny? Inspired by the staff uniform at Bunny’s Tavern, itself named after the proprietor Bernard “Bunny” Fitzsimmons, the ultimate showgirl was unveiled in 1960 and somehow the ears, tail, collar and cuffs transcended their own preposterousness to become a global icon.
Imagine if Fitzsimmons had been nicknamed, say, Chook?
Very pleased to be a finalist in this year's EMSLA, for the 6th consecutive year. As with each year, I'm surrounded by such august company: Louise Feneley, Robert Fenton, Julie Keating, the jaw dropping Angus McDonald (as he is officially known), Julian Meagher, Deb Mostert and Craig Waddell - and many more.
The show is on at the Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, and begins Friday 6 November 2015
About the painting: You would think that being a fraudster, forger and occultist during the height of the Inquisition would be enough to earn the ire of the Pope.
One of the great grifters, Giuseppe Balsamo wove tales of buried treasure, sold fake “Egyptian” amulets, forged documents, pimped his wife, and despite no having qualifications successfully passed himself off as a physician - to none other than Benjamin Franklin during his Paris sojourn. But none of these were the reason Balsamo (now self styled as Count Alessandro di Cagliostro) was arrested and imprisoned in the infamous Castel Sant’Angelo.
Balsamo’s great crime was being a Freemason. In the 18th century Freemasonry offered an alternative network to that of the church. Like any good business leader, the Pope determined to limit the competition by cracking down. Balsamo he died in prison, demonstrating the hefty price that accompanies some club memberships.
I am very happy to have been selected for the 2015 Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, with my painting Land of the Free. I think this is my 4th time in this prize.
Over the summer, during the interminable February heatwave in my sweltering studio, I repainted a couple of pictures initially made about year earlier. This was one of them. The initial picture was the first time I had tried to capture oxidised bronze, and over the course of the year, I got a whole lot better at it. So the repaint - which was really a whole brand new picture over the top of the old - actually took much longer than the first version. But much, much better. There was a richness to the tones, depth to the object, focal points, depth of field, three dimensionality. And cleaner overall. So getting selected for this means a lot, as it's been quite the journey.
There is a saying: its the journey, not the destination. Well, indeed. But I do wonder where this picture will end up.
I am very honoured and excited to be selected as a finalist in this year's Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, with my piece Domestic Goddess.
This is a killer prize, with an incredible line up of judges; Dr Alessi, Senior Lecturer Visual Art & Design, Latrobe University; Jennifer Kalionis, director of the Castlemaine Art Gallery; John McDonald, Art Critic and the Sydney Morning Herald; Peter Guy as representative of the Guy family and Julie Millowick, Vice Chair of the Bendigo Art Gallery.
But even better, the finalists each year represents Australia’s finest contemporary artists, and has included in the past a jaw dropping line up of talent, including Sam Leach, John Beard, Tony Lloyd, Kate Shaw, Juan Ford, Aida Tomescu, Ivan Durrant, Chris Bond, Yvette Coppersmith, Julia Ciccarone, Kate Bergin, Louise Hearman, Gareth Sansom and Jan Nelson.
Absolutely thrilled to be selected from 850 entries nationwide as a finalist for the prestigious 2015 Mosman Art Prize. And even better to be hanging alongside such illustrious alumni as Marcus Callum, Maz Dixon Artist, Ben Smith, Peter Smets, Robert Malherbe, Jasper Knight, Anh Do and Rodney Pople.
