Hanging in some good company in Amber Cresswell Bell’s ‘ACB Selects’ curation, an off-shoot of the National Emerging Art Prize.
Bundanon, 2023, oil on board, custom framed
The Inaugural NAS Library Artists' Book Award
Super delighted to have been chosen to exhibit in The Inaugural NAS Library Artists’ Book Award, with my tiny, hand-sewn, sculptural book.
The exhibition opening will coincide with the opening of the NAS Grad Show, on the evening of 30th of November.
The exhibition will run from the 9th of November until the 30th of January 2024. If you are in or around NAS, please pop into the Stairwell Gallery to check it out!
Glebe Art Show
Happy to be hanging in the wonderful, local, inclusive (non-selective) Glebe Art Show from the 19 to the 22 October. Check it out at the Tramsheds, Forest Lodge.
Domnhall’s Place, 2023, oil on canvas, custom framed.
grounded, group show at t and cc's
Super proud to be included in ‘Grounded’, a group show at t and cc’s in Surry Hills, opening Saturday 23 September, 2023
I’ll have five small works, hanging alongisde eight other, spectacular ‘up and coming’ artists, who work across a multitude of mediums, including painting, photography, video, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics. All the works explore ideas relating to the theme Grounded, with interpretations ranging from personal and cultural relationships with places and family histories, to the emotive and physical experiences of their art-making processes.
Curated by Gabriella Boyd. Artists include rachel ramsis farag, Elena Larkin, Katie Barbarie Stewart, Saluki, Mia van Dort-Gilmore, Georgia Wilkinson and Bryden Williams
Please check it out at t and cc’s salon, 54 Waterloo St, Surry Hills, Gadigal Country
Finalist in FLOW 2023
Absolutely chuffed to be hung in FLOW Contemporary Watercolour Prize at Wollongong Art Gallery for the 3rd time.
This en plein air work was created on a beautiful Summer’s day beside the Turon River, it was an absolute joy to paint!
Daily Quiet, Mini Solo with Weswal Gallery, Tamworth
Surprise! I have a mini-solo of my watercolours hanging at the lovely Weswal Gallery in Tamworth. If you’re in or around town, please pop in to check it out. Or have a squizz online on the Weswal Gallery website.
Daily Quiet, hanging insitu in Weswal Gallery, Tamworth.
Flannies II, oil on mdf board, custom framed.
Inside This Box: Group Exhibition
Super chuffed to hang alongside some gorgeous small artworks in Orange’s The Corner Store Gallery’s Inside This Box Exhibition, featuring 88 artworks on display from all over Australia. Artists were invited to submit wall-mountable artworks of any style, size, genre, medium and subject matter that fit within a 30x30cm size limit.
Exhibition Dates: February 15 - 25
Online Sales Launch: 8pm February 14
Opening Drinks: 6pm February 17
Finalist in the Fisher's Ghost Art Award
Stoked to be hanging again in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, with my little oil painting Botanic Gardens’ Palms. It’s a truly spectacular show, so if you are near Campbelltown, please check it out!
To view the catalogue check the Campbelltown Art Centre website – here.
Double Finalist in the GreenWay Art Prize
I love our local art prize – and am super happy to be involved again this year. It takes on issues close to my heart, relating to environment, access to open space and transportation. I’m happy to be featured in both the local and open categories with my two works, both exploring the Gumbramorra Swampland.
In my little stop motion Ibis, I have observed and drawn in willow charcoal an Ibis foraging in an puddle – a little ephemeral habitat that only appeared with La Niña, a reminder of the Gumbramorra Swampland that was once a rich and biodiverse part of the Goolay’yari / Cooks River ecosystem.
I then created this large companion piece for the stop motion, Once was Gumbramorra Swampland, an ink, watercolour and charcoal drawing, also of Ibis, wading through a large puddle (small body of water really!) on the oval of Marrickville High School. They looked so peaceful, majestic. As a 'fairytale' border for these Ibis, I have included a small selection of just some of the locally native flora that would have originally grown here. The lost biodiversity. A glimpse of a magical world decimated by development, canal systems and drainage.
Once was Gumbramorra Swampland, ink, charcoal and watercolour
Ibis, a 34 second stop motion animation with sound, using willow charcoal.
Little Flannel Flowers
Donating this little flannies oil painting to a fundraiser for my beautiful drawing teacher Rachel Fairfax. Hope it helps.
'Bloom' Group Exhibition – Weswal Gallery, Tamworth
Super, super stoked to have these two watercolours (on ridiculously thick arches paper) hanging in Weswal Gallery’s annual Bloom exhibition, alongside the uber talented Jules Harris, Emily Heath, Mignon Parker and Tym Yee.
The exhibition runs from Wednesday August 3rd to Saturday August 20th. For more information and or to view the exhibition online please check the Weswal Gallery website.
Art For Floods
A small donation, in hope that it helps with all the devastation that has recently occurred and is still occurring. Available for purchase this weekend, directly from me for $360 (preferably via insta message) – 100% will go to your choice of the three Art for Floods charities – Givit, Arts Northern Rivers or Norpa. Please check out Art For Floods for more info and to view all the beautiful works available.
The Watch House Balmain, Pop-up Group Exhibition
Pleased to again be involved in a pop-up exhibition that will be hanging FOR THIS WEEKEND ONLY at The Watch House Balmain featuring a great group of local artists, including Fleur Stevenson, Jane Sankey, Patrice Wills, Skye Andrew and Kati Wilson. It is always a pleasure to see the works against the historic sandstone blocks of this venue!
Drop in to have a squizz, open 9am to 5pm, 179 Darling St Balmain SATURDAY THE 26th and SUNDAY THE 27th February 2022.
ACB Selects – National Emerging Art Prize
I’m super excited to have been chosen by Amber Creswell Bell, one of Australia’s most passionate emerging art advocates, for her online show, ‘ACB Selects’, an offshoot of the National Emerging Art Prize.
More info about this amazing opportunity –
“In the inaugural year of the National Emerging Art Prize (NEAP) 2021, no one could have predicted the volume, nor the extremely high calibre of entries received.
And while the finalists and winners were selected by an independent panel of judges, the gallery’s Creative Director, Amber Creswell Bell, had the great pleasure of viewing each and every one of the 1498 entries received.
“I was floored by the quality of entries – truly my heart was racing as I viewed the entries prior to judging. How thrilling to see the emerging art world producing such exciting works – both painted and ceramic. This “ACB Selects” exhibition is a presentation of works that I personally identified as worthy of your attention!”
ACB Selects will open online Thursday 17th February 2022, and all works will be available for purchase, with affordable flat rate of $90 shipping Australia-wide on all pieces. You will be able to read about each of the artists, as well as their individual artist statements.
This is a fabulous opportunity to discover some great emerging talent from right across the country.”
The watercolour, gouache and pencil artwork on 850gsm arches ‘Holding it all together’ was chosen for the exhibition. It was completed on the only table in our small house, while schooling my three primary aged kids. The flowers were a gift from my sister's garden, a reminder of the importance of connection and a celebration of nature and community – elements that all proved to be crucial as our world shrank. The shadows are indistinct and not quite sensible, referencing the ever-changing light as I stopped and started, time not quite feeling the same.
The Watch House Balmain, Pop-up Group Exhibition
Pleased to again be involved with the Inner West Artists’ collective ‘Mamas with Easels’. A pop-up exhibition will be hanging FOR THIS WEEKEND ONLY at The Watch House Balmain featuring a great group of local artists, including Fleur Stevenson, Jane Sankey, Patrice Wills, Skye Andrew and Kati Wilson. It is always a pleasure to see the works against the historic sandstone blocks of this venue!
Drop in to have a squizz, open 9am to 5pm, 179 Darling St Balmain SATURDAY THE 20th and SUNDAY THE 21st.
Finalist in the Greenway Art Prize 2021
Completely honoured to be selected as local artist finalist in the 2021 The Greenway Art Prize, for my large watercolour painting Bleeding Heart. Thank you to the curators and congratulations to all the other finalists.
The opening will most likely be the evening of the 3rd of December (numbers may be COVID-limted - we shall see). And the exhibition will run from the 3rd to the 19th of December. Level 4, Mungo Scott Building,2-32 Smith Street Summer Hill. Hope to see you there!
A little bit about my artwork, Bleeding Heart which is available for purchase through the prize:
“During the lockdown I missed access to true virgin bushland dearly. I found myself scouring vistas on our park crawls for the biodiversity that existed before colonisation. This little vignette along the Hawthorne Canal of native bleeding heart with a peek of a palm leaf and an understorey of native geranium, dianella, lomandra and scurvy weed, could, at a squint, transport me to a subtropical rainforest. A mini-holiday in our urban gaol.”
Finalist in the Fisher's Ghost Art Award 2021
Stoked to have a little smoosh of an oil painting ‘Hopeful’ hanging in the traditional section of The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown Art Centre. I love this award particularly for its wonderful, overwhelming salon hang.
The exhibition runs from the 30th of October to the 10th of December. If you are in the area, be sure to check it out!
Hopeful, oil on board, Finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award 2021
Finalist in FLOW 2021
So proud to have my painting ‘A La Niña Summer, Italian White Sunflowers and Sugar Plums’ hanging in FLOW – Wollongong Art Gallery’s National Contemporary Watercolour Prize, alongside many absolutely brilliant artists. Thank you to Louise Brand for ensuring the exhibition went ahead and to Dr Andrew Frost for judging.
The exhibition runs from the 16th of October 2021 to the 13th of March 2022. If you are in the area, be sure to check it out!
A La Niña Summer, Italian White Sunflowers and Sugar Plums, watercolour and gouache on 850gsm arches
online finalist in Lethbridge 20000
My little piece Pohutukawa and Wattle has been included in the Lethbridge 20000 Salon de Refusés, in some great company. Head over to the website to check it out.
Incognito Art Show
I have donated a piece to Incognito Art Show – which is raising funds for Studio A: ‘an organisation that provides creative programs with whole-life outcomes for adults with disability’.
It is a pretty cool concept for a show, which is inclusive (anyone can enter), with every artwork sized A5, priced at $100 and completely anonymous!
Works will be sold to the public at an Art Show in Sydney at the Verona Studio 1 - 17 Oxford St, Paddington on the 5th of June 2021. You can check out the gallery online prior to visiting here.
