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Locality: Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

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Address: 35 Derby Street 3066 Collingwood, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 Australian Galleries Sydney invites you to the opening: Belynda Henry ‘to paint is to love’, Saturday 28 November 11am to 5pm, 15 Roylston Street, Paddington. All are welcome! To ensure the safety of our guests visitor numbers will be monitored and sign in will be required. . Belynda Henry’s latest exhibition, ‘to paint is to love’ is a personal and emotive response to the beauty, resilience and the vulnerability of our Australian landscape. Working en plein air around Syd...ney Harbour and from her studio lodged within the landscape, this exhibition includes Henry’s largest and most unrestrained paintings. The works range from small and intimate to a large 4 metre long triptych. . In this exhibition, Henry continues to experiment with and push her process of mark making as she documents emotive scenes of coastal Sydney landmarks such as Camp Cove, Shark Island and Seven Shillings Beach. Henry skilfully balances free flowing harmonies of colour and composition to create fragmented landscapes that are both vibrant and serene. However, this exhibition also speaks to Henry’s newfound leaning towards abstracted painting and the keen observer may also note sensual forms emerge. . The show also features the sounds of recorded bird calls from around the artist’s studio as well as a suspended sculptural installation by floral artist Tracey Deep. ‘to paint is to love’ is a sensory and immersive experience for audiences that provides a glimpse into Belynda Henry’s creative process as an artist embedded within nature of which she has a deep reverence for. . As New York art critic Nixon Marters said, ‘An abstracted landscape is a metaphor for the artist’s emotional landscape, not the physical one’. I must admit there is a lot of truth to that for me for now, particularly with this series of works, the exhibition and the subsequent book ‘To Paint Is To Love' these are my most revealing paintings to date. Belynda Henry, 2020 . . . . . . . . . #belyndahenry #art #artist #painting #sydney #landscapepainter #abstractart #colour #contemporaryart #exhibition #artgallery

25.01.2022 Congratulations to @peterwegner who has been announced as a finalist in the 2020 Archibald Prize, with this exquisite painting 'Chef's coat Graeme Doyle' 2020,oil on aluminium,118.5 x 118.5 cm . Five-time Archibald finalist Peter Wegner has painted his dear friend Graeme Doyle more than 100 times, including the portrait that won the 2006 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. He says: Graeme is an accomplished artist, published poet and songwriter who identifies as an outsi...der artist living with schizophrenia. Hes also been involved as a long-term advocate for mental health. Hes still active in his own practice as an artist. Graeme and I met at art school in 1982 and over the years one painting turned into another until now hundreds of paintings and drawings exist of Graeme in our 35-year collaboration and friendship. In this painting Ive given Graeme an imagined identity. I was also influenced by Hugh RamsaysSelf-portrait in white jacket190102, a painting I greatly admire. . The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes is an annual exhibition eagerly anticipated by artists and audiences alike. . Each year, the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW judge the Archibald and Wynne, and invite an artist to judge the Sulman. The 2020 judge is Khadim Ali. . Visit the exhibition to vote for your favourite portrait in the ANZ Peoples Choice award before voting closes on 13 December and see the work of budding artists aged 518 on display in the Young Archies. . The winner of the Archibald Prize will be announced on 25 September 2020 and published on the Gallerys website around midday. . Exhibition dates: 26 September 2020 10 January 2021. Due to COVID-19 capacity restrictions, booking online is essential, tickets are dated and timed. You need to specify a date and time when booking. Tickets can be used once. Visit @artgalleryofnsw for further details and to see the full list of finalists. . . . . . . . . #art #peterwegner #painting #artist #archibaldprize #portrait #portraitpainting #artprize #contemporaryart #visualart #artgallery See more

24.01.2022 FROM THE ARCHIVES Anne Purves at her desk, 1987 Page 221 of The Purves Family Business: The First Four Decades 1956-1999 available to purchase via our online bookstore. ... #Fromthearchives #archive #1980s #1987 #artgallery #melbourne #commercialgallery #australianart

24.01.2022 Congratulations to Nerissa Lea who has been selected as a finalist in the 2020 Calleen Art Award with this magnificent oil painting The theatre of forever. . The Calleen Art Award is an acquisitive art prize that encourages originality and artistic merit, established in 1977 by Mrs Patricia Fagan OAM. The winning artwork will become part of the splendid Calleen Collection the foundation collection of the Cowra Regional Art Gallery. . The official opening and announcement ...of the award winner will be held on 4 October 2020 at Cowra Regional Art Gallery, 77 Darling Street, Cowra NSW. Exhibition dates : 4 October -15 November 2020. . Image: @nerissamlea The theatre of forever 2020, oil on board, 30 x 30 cm . . . . . . . . #art #artist #nerissalea #narrativeart #oilpainting #surrealism #modernart #theatre #contemporaryart #artaward #calleenartaward2020 See more

24.01.2022 A FAMILY SELECTION - ONLINE EXHIBITION A Familys Selection presents a poignant collection of artworks, curated by the next generation of the Purves family during this recent time in isolation. . From a room weve become all too comfortable in, we reminisced on days and nights spent all together at the gallery. Some sat quietly contemplating, others turned to our online stock room and another took to the walls in our home for inspiration. Together we compiled a list of w...orks that spoke to us in the moment. . Creating this collection together not only helped the Purves family to stay connected, it provided them with a source of creative expression and inspiration during lockdown. We hope this very special exhibition will ignite your own imagination and inspire feelings of upliftment, connectedness, and hope. . Visit the Online Exhibitions page at our website to view A Familys Selection today! . Image: @sueandersonartist Suburban edge 2019, oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm . . . . . . #art #sueanderson #painting #oilpainting #sculpture #worksonpaper #print #limitededitionprint #groupexhibition #contemporaryart #exhibition #onlineart

23.01.2022 Visit Lewis Miller’s current solo show in Melbourne to experience the rich textures and vibrant colours in his brilliant oil paintings. Lewis Miller ‘Recent Work’ is open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm, 28 Derby Street, Collingwood, until Sunday 6 December. . This solo exhibition showcases a magnificent series of still lives, portraits and nudes in varying scale. Their poignant beauty testament to the impressive technical skills Lewis has refined for more than forty years, as... well as his unique ability to find visual inspiration among everyday surroundings. . Image: @lewismiller_painter Lewis Miller ‘Green pears II’ 2020, oil on Belgian linen, 40 x 60 cm . . . . . . . . . . #art #stilllife #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #oilpainting #lewismiller #artist #colour #design #exhibition #modernart #artgallery #visualart #painting See more

22.01.2022 Peter Neilson’s works are immediately engaging and draw the viewer in to ponder evocative and mysterious narratives. These detail images from his current show give a sense of the dynamic characters that populate his paintings as drawings. . ‘Agitation in Swingtime’ is open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm in our Melbourne gallery, 35 Derby Street, Collingwood until Sunday 6 December and can also be viewed in full via our website. Don’t miss the final week of this truly magnifi...cent show . . . . . . . . #art #peterneilson #painting #artist #contemporaryart #modernart #peterneilson surrealism #noir #exhibition #melbourne #artgallery #visualart #interiordesign See more

21.01.2022 FINAL WEEKEND Visit us in Sydney to see Bruce Latimers luminous exhibition Travel Paintings. Open today and tomorrow from 10am to 6pm, 15 Roylston Street, Paddington. This exhibition will conclude on the evening of Sunday September 27. . "I made these paintings in response to things seen on my travels in Europe. At the time I dont think of them in terms of subject matter. Its only when I get home and examine my mountain of photos that possibilities appear the peculi...arities of flamingos in the South of France, an unexplainable dried orange light fixture in a Berlin shop window or simplicity and power of Gerhard Richters stained glass in Cologne Cathedral. The process of visual improvisation begins by looking for some kind of sense by juxtaposing friendly but disparate components. Hopefully the combination succeeds in making the impossible seem possible. . These are oil paintings on copper a slippery and non-absorbent surface. I prefer to paint thinly so that the warm reflective metal at times appears, a reminder of the physicality of the object." - Bruce Latimer, 2020 . Image: Illumination (detail) 2020, oil on copper, 55 x 32cm . . . . . . . . . . #art #artist #brucelatimer #travelpaintings #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting #oiloncopper #sydney #nature #landscape #artgallery #exhibition #modernart

21.01.2022 ARTIST FEATURE - DANIELLE CREENAUNE I work mainly with stone lithography, Mokulito and watercolour. For me,with stone lithographythere is a flow between the process, materials and image making. It’s very tactile, sensory and requires awareness. The materials have a history, the stone has had a life before you existed, there’s a sensitivity with marks and meditation in the pace of working, an attention to detail and patience required. It offers a very direct way of makin...g painterly and graphic marks within printmaking and possesses a rich gamut of tones and textures such as the reticulated washes. . Around 5 years ago I also started using plywood as a plate for the lithographic process. It’s a technique called Mokurito/Mokulito originating in Japan and it offers some elements of traditional lithography with an organic wood grain and the option to carve into the plate as with woodcut. I approach processes with curiosity, find out what works best for my imagery and then push and refine until I’m content with the results.These techniques offer me a way to work intuitively onto the matrix considering the use of a broad range of textures, strokes and implements to suggest the energy, light and contemplation I feel in landscape. @daniellecreenaune . Danielle Creenaune ‘Fragile States’ is now open for its final week, every day from 10am to 6pm until the evening of Sunday 6 December in our Print Room Gallery 28 Derby Street, Collingwood, Melbourne. This beautiful show can also be viewed in its entirety via the Current Exhibitions page at our website. . To read the full Artist Feature interview and studio visit on Danielle visit our blog . Photographs by @tobiasrowles . . . . . #art #artistfeature #studio #artistinterview #artprocess #printmaking #mokulito #lithography #contemporaryart #modernart #daniellecreenaune #landscape #abstractart #exhibition #interiordesign #design #melbourne #woodlithography #abstractlandscape See more

21.01.2022 Greg Weight Big Tree Notes is open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm, 15 Roylston Street, Paddington until September 27. . Sydney photographer Greg Weight is blurring the boundaries between the reality of the photograph and the impressionistic act of painting in his new exhibition Big Tree Notes. The age-old tension between the two art cousins, photography and painting, has been resolved in a new way through Gregs creation of a unique series of paintographs. . The NSW coast...al forests have replaced Weights previous muses, the night skies and landscapes of Central Australia. In these new works the textures and details of the colonial landscape of Hill End were followed by a celebration of coastal trees enhanced by the application of paint over photographs on canvas. ~ I dedicate this exhibition to my sister Diana Tansley Webber, 10.12.1934 - 30.8.2020. @gregweight . Image: Where Cicadas Sing 2020, paintograph (oil paint over photograph on canvas), 91 x 137 cm . . . . . . . . . . . . #art #artist #gregweight #contemporaryart #painting #photography #paintograph #sydney #nature #landscape #trees #artgallery #exhibition #modernart See more

20.01.2022 It is the final week of Lewis Miller’s stunning exhibition ‘Recent Work’, which can be viewed 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm in our Stock Rooms Gallery, 28 Derby Street, Collingwood as well as in full via our website. This show will conclude at 6pm on Sunday December 6. . ‘Recent Work’ showcases a magnificent series of still lives, portraits and nudes in varying scale. Their poignant beauty testament to the impressive technical skills Lewis has refined for more than forty yea...rs, as well as his unique ability to find visual inspiration among everyday surroundings. . . . . . . . . . @lewismiller_painter #art #stilllife #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #oilpainting #lewismiller #artist #colour #design #exhibition #modernart #artgallery #visualart #painting

19.01.2022 Printmaker @brucegooldartist trained at the National Art School, Sydney and was a member of the renowned artist collective Yellow House between 1970-72. Goold employs thick line and broad colour in his vibrant linocuts and woodblocks to create images of Australian flora and fauna, as well as South Pacific inspired esoteric and symbolic subjects. He has held solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne and internationally in London and Ireland, and has received major commissions for ...poster, logo and interior design and worked as a designer for Mambo from 1992. His work is held by Artbank, Sydney; the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and several regional collections. . This delightful hand-coloured linocut epitomizes the bright and engaging nature of Goolds highly original prints. To view a fantastic selection of work by this artist please visit our online store via our website (link in profile) . Image: Icarus Party 1994, hand coloured linocut, edition 25, 50 x 43 cm . . . . . . . #art #brucegoold #artist #printmaker #worksonpaper #birds #nature #garden #contemporaryart #artgallery #graphicart #colour #linocut See more

18.01.2022 FINAL DAYS Visit us in Sydney to see Bruce Latimers captivating exhibition Travel Paintings, open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm, 15 Roylston Street, Paddington. This exhibition will conclude on the evening of Sunday September 27. . "I made these paintings in response to things seen on my travels in Europe. At the time I dont think of them in terms of subject matter. Its only when I get home and examine my mountain of photos that possibilities appear the peculiariti...es of flamingos in the South of France, an unexplainable dried orange light fixture in a Berlin shop window or simplicity and power of Gerhard Richters stained glass in Cologne Cathedral. The process of visual improvisation begins by looking for some kind of sense by juxtaposing friendly but disparate components. Hopefully the combination succeeds in making the impossible seem possible. . These are oil paintings on copper a slippery and non-absorbent surface. I prefer to paint thinly so that the warm reflective metal at times appears, a reminder of the physicality of the object." - Bruce Latimer, 2020 . Image: Solar Powered Landscape 2019, oil on copper, 50 x 73 cm . . . . . . . . . . #art #artist #brucelatimer #travelpaintings #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting #oiloncopper #sydney #nature #landscape #artgallery #exhibition #modernart See more

17.01.2022 Congratulations @timstorrier who has been announced as a finalist in the 2020 Wynne Prize, with this incredible painting The plague year (an itinerants repose)' 2020, acrylic on canvas, 113.5 x 306 cm . If a work of art requires an explanatory text, the meaning and purpose of the work has failed. If the text communicates the aim of the work accurately why have the work? Just display the text. With a well-considered work of art, the less said the better. - Tim Storrier 202...0 . The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes is an annual exhibition eagerly anticipated by artists and audiences alike. The Wynne Prize is awarded to the best landscape painting of Australian scenery, or figure sculpture. Each year, the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW judge the Archibald and Wynne, and invite an artist to judge the Sulman. The 2020 judge is Khadim Ali. . Visit the exhibition to vote for your favourite portrait in the ANZ Peoples Choice award before voting closes on 13 December and see the work of budding artists aged 518 on display in the Young Archies. . Winners in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize competitions will be announced on 25 September 2020 and published on the Gallerys website around midday. . Exhibition dates: 26 September 2020 10 January 2021. Due to COVID-19 capacity restrictions, booking online is essential, tickets are dated and timed. You need to specify a date and time when booking. Tickets can be used once. Visit @artgalleryofnsw for further details and to see the full list of finalists. . . . . . . . . #art #timstorrier #painting #artist #wynneprize #landscapepainting #artprize #contemporaryart #visualart #artgallery See more

16.01.2022 ONLINE EXHIBITION Andrew Antoniou is a painter and printmaker whose works transport the viewer into the midst of a fantastical narrative. His fascination with the theatre has led to the exploration of archetypes and symbols, and the desire to create characters that leap off the canvas. This works on paper exhibition highlights the importance of drawing in the artists practice, with each beautiful tableau blurring the lines between imagination and memory, allowing us to see ...alternate perspectives and endless possibilities. . Visit the Current Exhibitions page at our website to view this delightful body of work. . Image: @antfarm51 The Alchemist (detail) 2017, pastel on paper, 65 x 33 cm . . . . . . . . . #andrewantoniou #art #artist #drawing #worksonpaper #watercolour #ink #pencil #graphite #australianartist #theatre #narrativeart #contemporaryart #modernart #onlineart #onlineexhibition See more

16.01.2022 FINAL DAYS Dont miss Greg Weights majestic exhibition Big Tree Notes, now open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm, 15 Roylston Street, Paddington, Sydney. This exhibition will conclude on the evening of Sunday September 27. . Sydney photographer Greg Weight is blurring the boundaries between the reality of the photograph and the impressionistic act of painting in his new exhibition Big Tree Notes. The age-old tension between the two art cousins, photography and painting, ...has been resolved in a new way through Gregs creation of a unique series of paintographs. . The NSW coastal forests have replaced Weights previous muses, the night skies and landscapes of Central Australia. In these new works the textures and details of the colonial landscape of Hill End were followed by a celebration of coastal trees enhanced by the application of paint over photographs on canvas. ~ I dedicate this exhibition to my sister Diana Tansley Webber, 10.12.1934 - 30.8.2020. @gregweight . Image: Everything past is almost forgotten 2019, paintograph (oil paint over photograph on canvas), 40 x 61 cm . . . . . . . . . . . . #art #artist #gregweight #contemporaryart #painting #photography #paintograph #sydney #nature #landscape #trees #artgallery #exhibition #modernart See more

15.01.2022 AG at Home | Graeme Drendel Melbourne-based interior design practice Studio Wonder were asked to refurbish a 1970s home in Malvern, within an early Merchant Builders development. Built more than fifty years ago by Merchant Builders, the home bears the hallmarks of their uniquely Australian, architect-designed houses that promoted respect for suburban landscape. Studio Wonder have thoughtfully invigorated this classic 70s home with a newfound sense of purpose, honouring i...ts iconic era and the owners unique art collection, which includes two spectacular Graeme Drendel paintings displayed in the living room and bedroom. View our Stock Rooms online to browse available works by Graeme Drendel including paintings and works on paper. Design: @studiowonder Photography: Tom Blachford Featured in: @est_living #GraemeDrendel #AGatHome

15.01.2022 FINAL WEEKEND Visit us in Sydney this weekend to catch the last days of Greg Weights stunning exhibition Big Tree Notes. Open today and tomorrow from 10am to 6pm, 15 Roylston Street, Paddington. This exhibition will conclude on the evening of Sunday September 27. . Sydney photographer Greg Weight is blurring the boundaries between the reality of the photograph and the impressionistic act of painting in his new exhibition Big Tree Notes. The age-old tension between the ...two art cousins, photography and painting, has been resolved in a new way through Gregs creation of a unique series of paintographs. . The NSW coastal forests have replaced Weights previous muses, the night skies and landscapes of Central Australia. In these new works the textures and details of the colonial landscape of Hill End were followed by a celebration of coastal trees enhanced by the application of paint over photographs on canvas. ~ I dedicate this exhibition to my sister Diana Tansley Webber, 10.12.1934 - 30.8.2020. @gregweight . Image: @gregweight Siren 2020, pigment on cotton rag paper, edition 8, 60 x 90cm . . . . . . . . . . . . #art #artist #gregweight #contemporaryart #painting #photography #paintograph #sydney #nature #landscape #trees #artgallery #exhibition #modernart

14.01.2022 DEBORAH WILLIAMS - ONLINE EXHIBITION Deborah Williams is widely renowned for her dynamic and poignant representation of dogs. At the heart of Williams bold and sensitive work, is her deep connection to, and respect for, the unique nature of the canine. Through devoted attention she reveals the absolute essence of the animal, leading the viewer into powerful contemplation of each truly individual being. . Looking Back presents a striking selection of prints curated by th...e artist, featuring key pieces from several eras and bodies of work. Williams works across a wide range of printmaking techniques with deft technical skill and a bold and refined sense of space and composition, revealing in her sophisticated works a profound respect for both her chosen medium and the animals she portrays. . This beautiful collection of monochromatic works highlights Williams intaglio and drypoint etchings and large scale inkjet prints. . Image: @deborahwilliamsartist Ubiquitous 2016, etching, roulette and engraving, edition 39, 30 x 30 cm . Visit the Online Exhibitions page at our website to view Looking Back today! . . . . . . #deborahwilliams #art #printmaking #dog #monochrome #etching #intaglio #print #inkjetprint #limitededitionprint #worksonpaper #contemporaryart #exhibition #onlineart See more

14.01.2022 Congratulations to @cathy_weiszmann on the recent completion and installation of this beautiful bronze ‘Trainee Nurse’ for Royal North Shore Hospital, which was commissioned by the RNSH Graduate Nurses Association. This masterful work is dedicated to all nurses who trained at the hospital from 1899 to 1987 and is testament to the sensitivity and immense skill of the artist. . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . #art #cathyweiszmann #sculpture #figure #figurativeart #artist #artgallery #bronze #modernart #bronzesculpture #contemporaryart See more

14.01.2022 Peter Neilson’s current exhibition is an immersive experience which invites the viewer in to a mysterious and evocative world. ‘Agitation in Swingtime’ is open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm in our Melbourne gallery, 35 Derby Street, Collingwood until Sunday 6 December. . All of our exhibitions can also be viewed in full via our website. . Image: ‘My future coming back to get me’ 2013, oil on linen mounted on board, 41 x 65 cm... . . . . . . #art #peterneilson #painting #artist #contemporaryart #modernart #surrealism #noir #exhibition #melbourne #artgallery #visualart #interiordesign

12.01.2022 ‘Ddraig’, ‘Roberto Fortuno’ and ‘Bluey’ are just three of the dynamic characters you will encounter in Rona Green’s current exhibition ‘A little bit’. This wonderfully vibrant show is open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm in The Viewing Room, 1st Floor 28 Derby Street, Collingwood and can also be viewed via our website! . @ronagreenart will be in the gallery to meet and talk with visitors about her show on its final day: Sunday 6 December from 3pm to 5pm. To ensure the safety o...f our guests visitor numbers will be monitored and sign in will be required. . Rona Green’s technique is accomplished, but uncomplicated as she strives to maximise the impact of her images through simplicity of means. Although there is flippancy, humour and whimsicality in the work, her prints are incredibly seductive images, funky in their aesthetic and slightly menacing and confronting in their presence. Yet for all of their light-heartedness, they do hint at a secondary role as social commentary with a generous dose of satire and with the touch of the absurd. I suspect that each of us will bring to Rona Green's images our own emotional and cultural baggage. - Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin, AM, FAHA . . . . . . . #art #ronagreen #printmaking #linocut #contemporaryart #anthropomorphism #tattoo #animals #modernart #visualart #artgallery #exhibition #melbourne See more

12.01.2022 After many successful years in Woolwich, the HarbourSculpture Award has found a new home in Balmain. This years exhibition will be located indoors at the historic Balmain Rowing Club overlooking Parramatta River on the edge of Elkington Park. Submissions for this award are open until 30 September 2020. Visit @harboursculpture for details! . The Judge for this years HarbourSculpture Award is celebrated artist Michael Snape. A selection of images his dynamic works from are... featured above. . Michael spoke with HarbourSculpture about what he is looking for in the winning artwork: . What am I looking for? What makes a submission stand out? Like everyone, I am looking to be moved, inspired, taken away. I am looking for signs of life. Art takes us out of it. That sounds kind of obvious, but it is rarer than youd think. I would prefer not to be shocked into taking my attention, and political intent is probably mostly better applied elsewhere. One-liners are out. Two sentences ok, but three-dimensional paragraphs are preferred. I would be moved by the depth of feeling expressed in a work. I would be absorbed by that which required being absorbed to make it. Anything too licked is out. The sculptor speaks on behalf of the capacity of the culture to be conscious and alive. The more that culture is reflected, the better the show will be. A good sculpture reflects a cultured community. Sculpture is not new. Its ancient. A work which reflects hard-won values will be noticed!... In summary: Signs of life. A voice. An urgency. Anything which catches, holds, from which I cannot turn away. Anything which employs the principles of unity, harmony, and clarity. That has genuinely asked itself, What does it mean to be alive? . Read more of this illuminating interview at https://www.harboursculpture.org.au/ or follow @harboursculpture. . . . . . . . @snape_michael #art #sculpture #michaelsnape #publicart #sculptureaward #harboursculpture #balmain #sydney #artprize #contemporaryart #contemporarysculpture See more

12.01.2022 FROM THE ARCHIVES Australian Galleries was established in Melbourne by Tam and Anne Purves in June 1956. The space was originally the Purves pattern manufacturing business in the bustling inner working class suburb of Collingwood. They supplied the all-important patterns to the local fashion industry which was a thriving industry in the warehouses of the surrounding streets. Together their vision and driving force resulted in the development of what was then, an extraordi...nary idea. They started a commercial art gallery to show the small group of culturally important post-war Australian artists emerging in Melbourne who at the time had nowhere to seriously show and sell their work. The first painters to exhibit at Australian Galleries included artists who went on to become some of Australias greatest ever, such as Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, John Perceval and Albert Tucker. Image of Tam and Anne Purves at home, 1956. #FromtheArchives #Archive #ArtGallery #AustralianGalleries #AustralianArt #Collingwood #CommericalArtGallery #1950s #1956 #ThrowbackThursday

11.01.2022 MARGIE SHEPPARD - ONLINE EXHIBITION Margie Sheppard’s new paintings and etchings show a transition to the most simple forms, leaving behind the figuration of her previous work. Simplicity and strength dominate. Some of Margie’s paintings are simply suspended rectangles of colour. They are spacious and transcend the everyday. The colours are luminous and become the subject of the paintings. . Her layered abstractions reveal surfaces hovering over more surfaces, densely colou...red yet pulsing radiantly. It is a world into which the viewer can fall, absorbed by its depths. Her many years as a printmaker informs her decisions and powerful sense of colour structure. . The etchings are purely abstract but have more visual elements for the viewer to read. Shape, texture and colour all play their part to give visual meaning. . Visit our website to view ‘Connections in time’ today! . Image: @margie_sheppard_art ‘Monument 2’ 2017, etching, edition 25, 90 x 79 cm . . . . . . . . #art #margiesheppard #onlineexhibition #painting #artgallery #printmaking #worksonpaper #abstractart #australianart #contemporaryart #visualart #interiordesign #colour See more

11.01.2022 @belynda__henry’s affinity with the medium of watercolour and her connection to the natural world are evident in these rich detail images of her works on paper. Visit Australian Galleries Sydney, 15 Roylston Street, Paddington 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm until Sunday 20 December to view Belynda’s captivating exhibition ‘to paint is to love’, or head to our website. . Painting on paper is completely therapeutic and a wonderful form of meditation. I drift off into my own l...ittle world, subconsciously releasing a summary of the last 25 years of practice. @belynda__henry, 2020 . . . . . . . . . #art #abstraction #abstractart #belyndahenry #artist #painting #printmaking #mixedmedia #sculpture #colour #form #contemporaryart #modernart #artgallery #visualart #interiordesign #onlineart #belyndahenryworkonpaper #belyndahenrystudio #tangle See more

11.01.2022 These are oil paintings on copper a slippery and non-absorbent surface. I prefer to paint thinly so that the warm reflective metal at times appears, a reminder of the physicality of the object." - Bruce Latimer, 2020 . Bruce Latimer Travel Paintings is open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm, 15 Roylston Street, Paddington, Sydney until Sunday September 27. . "I made these paintings in response to things seen on my travels in Europe. At the time I dont think of them in te...rms of subject matter. Its only when I get home and examine my mountain of photos that possibilities appear the peculiarities of flamingos in the South of France, an unexplainable dried orange light fixture in a Berlin shop window or simplicity and power of Gerhard Richters stained glass in Cologne Cathedral. The process of visual improvisation begins by looking for some kind of sense by juxtaposing friendly but disparate components. Hopefully the combination succeeds in making the impossible seem possible. . Image: Bird and tree 2020, oil on copper, 47x 37 cm . . . . . . . . . . #art #artist #brucelatimer #travelpaintings #contemporaryart #painting #oiloainting #oiloncopper #sydney #nature #landscape #artgallery #exhibition #modernart See more

10.01.2022 ABSTRACTION Jamie Boyd is a celebrated master colourist, whose exquisite paintings, drawings and collages reflect his connections to Australia as well as his broad international experience. Boyds works are highly expressive and equally sensitive and subdued, inviting the viewer in to his idyllic, dream-like and captivating scenes. ie Boyd has exhibited widely throughout Australia and Europe. His work is represented in collections including Artbank, the University of Melbou...rne, the University of Western Australia, the Parliament House Art Collection and the Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery . Visit our online exhibition Abstraction to view paintings by Jamie Boyd including Navigating 2019-20, oil on board, 114 x 114 cm, as well as a magnificent collection of abstract works in various media by a diverse range of our represented artists. . . . . . . . . . . #art #artist #jamieboyd #contemporaryart #painting #abstractart #onlineart #onlinegallery #artgallery #exhibition #modernart #abstraction #colour See more

10.01.2022 Andrew Antoniou is a painter and printmaker whose works transport the viewer into the midst of a fantastical narrative. His fascination with the theatre has led to the exploration of archetypes and symbols, and the desire to create characters that leap off the canvas. This works on paper exhibition highlights the importance of drawing in the artists practice, with each beautiful tableau blurring the lines between imagination and memory, allowing us to see alternate perspectiv...es and endless possibilities. . Visit the Current Exhibitions page at our website to view this enchanting online exhibition, Works on Paper. . Image: @antfarm51 The grapevine 2016, etching, edition 10, 25 x 32 cm . . . . . . . . . #andrewantoniou #art #artist #drawing #worksonpaper #watercolour #ink #pencil #graphite #australianartist #theatre #narrativeart #contemporaryart #modernart #onlineart #onlineexhibition See more

10.01.2022 Sydney photographer Greg Weight is blurring the boundaries between the reality of the photograph and the impressionistic act of painting in his current exhibition Big Tree Notes. The age-old tension between the two art cousins, photography and painting, has been resolved in a new way through Gregs creation of a unique series of paintographs. . The NSW coastal forests have replaced Weights previous muses, the night skies and landscapes of Central Australia. In these new wo...rks the textures and details of the colonial landscape of Hill End were followed by a celebration of coastal trees enhanced by the application of paint over photographs on canvas. ~ I dedicate this exhibition to my sister Diana Tansley Webber, 10.12.1934 - 30.8.2020. @gregweight . Image: Poetic World 2019, paintograph (oil paint over photograph on canvas), 41cm x 61cm . Big Tree Notes is open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm, 15 Roylston Street, Paddington until September 27. . . . . . . . . . . #art #artist #gregweight #contemporaryart #painting #photography #paintograph #sydney #nature #landscape #trees #artgallery #exhibition #modernart

09.01.2022 After 40 years working as an artist, I do not feel as a tourist or a visitor in the landscape but as a native, one who is part of this land and one who knows that if we do not look after it, we will destroy it and in turn it will destroy us. My works, while denoting elements such as earth and sky also speak of a ‘presence’, that is part of the day and night of our existence, part of a known reality but also an unknowable, timeless one." - G.W. Bot, 2019 . Visit our website ...to view G.W Bot’s stunning online exhibition 'Works on Paper 1995 - 2020' . Image: ‘Glyphs Between Worlds’ (detail) 2012, linocut on Korean Hanji paper, irregular edition 10, 88.5 x 62.5 cm . . . . . . . #art #gwbot #onlineexhibition #artgallery #printmaking #worksonpaper #landscape #environmentalart #glyph #australianart #contemporaryart #visualart #interiordesign See more

09.01.2022 We have a dynamic selection of colour etchings by renowned printmaker @margie_sheppard_art available to view in our online stock rooms. This beautiful work, Turning point is included in our online group exhibition Fragments, which can be viewed in full via our website. . Margie Sheppards layered abstractions reveal surfaces hovering over more surfaces, densely coloured yet pulsing radiantly. It is a world into which the viewer can fall, absorbed by its depths. Her many y...ears as a printmaker informs her decisions and powerful sense of colour structure. The etchings are purely abstract but have more visual elements for the viewer to read. Shape, texture and colour all play their part to give visual meaning. . Image: @margie_sheppard_art Turning point 2017, etching, edition 40 , 78 x 72 cm . . . . . . . . . #art #margiesheppard #artist #etching #limitededitionprints #printmaking #exhibition #australianart #artgallery #melbourne #contemporaryart #visualart

09.01.2022 A FAMILYS SELECTION - ONLINE EXHIBITION A Familys Selection presents a poignant collection of artworks, curated by the next generation of the Purves family during this recent time in isolation. . From a room weve become all too comfortable in, we reminisced on days and nights spent all together at the gallery. Some sat quietly contemplating, others turned to our online stock room and another took to the walls in our home for inspiration. Together we compiled a list of... works that spoke to us in the moment. . Creating this collection together not only helped the Purves family to stay connected, it provided them with a source of creative expression and inspiration during lockdown. We hope this very special exhibition will ignite your own imagination and inspire feelings of upliftment, connectedness, and hope. . Visit the Online Exhibitions page at our website to view A Familys Selection today! . Image: @marinastrocchi Sunset Park 2019, acrylic on linen, 91 x 152.5 cm . . . . . . . . . #art #marinastrocchi #painting #oilpainting #sculpture #worksonpaper #print #limitededitionprint #groupexhibition #contemporaryart #exhibition #onlineart

08.01.2022 Tune in to Eastside Radio Arts tomorrow at 10.45am to hear a live-to-air interview with celebrated photographer Greg Weight, hosted by Maisy Stapleton. . Greg Weights breathtaking exhibition Big Tree Notes is open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm, 15 Roylston Street, Paddington Sydney until Sunday September 27. . Image: @gregweight Waratah Concerto 2018, paintograph (oil paint over photograph on canvas), 41 x 61 cm... . . . . . . . #art #artist #gregweight #contemporaryart #painting #photography #paintograph #sydney #nature #landscape #trees #artgallery #exhibition #modernart

07.01.2022 MARGIE SHEPPARD - ONLINE EXHIBITION Abstraction allows me to glimpse a deeper truth and I now love to immerse myself in large abstract paintings, putting colours and shapes together in unusual combinations. Getting the colour, shapes, spacial relationships and surfaces ‘right’ is completely absorbing and inspires me to keep creating, innovating and experimenting. - @margie_sheppard_art, 2020 . Margie Sheppard’s new paintings and etchings show a transition to the most simp...le forms, leaving behind the figuration of her previous work. Simplicity and strength dominate. Some of Margie’s paintings are simply suspended rectangles of colour. They are spacious and transcend the everyday. The colours are luminous and become the subject of the paintings. . Her layered abstractions reveal surfaces hovering over more surfaces, densely coloured yet pulsing radiantly. It is a world into which the viewer can fall, absorbed by its depths. Her many years as a printmaker informs her decisions and powerful sense of colour structure. . The etchings are purely abstract but have more visual elements for the viewer to read. Shape, texture and colour all play their part to give visual meaning. . Visit our website to view ‘Connections in time’ today! . Image: @margie_sheppard_art ‘Pink circle’ 2020, etching, edition 30, 78 x 98 cm . . . . . . #art #margiesheppard #onlineexhibition #painting #artgallery #printmaking #worksonpaper #abstractart #australianart #contemporaryart #visualart #interiordesign #colour See more

07.01.2022 Danielle Creenaune ‘Fragile States’ is open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm until Sunday 6 December. Print Room Gallery 28 Derby Street, Collingwood, Melbourne. This beautiful show can also be viewed in its entirety via the Current Exhibitions page at our website. . ‘In this exhibition, I work in the techniques of stone lithography and mokulito, because there is a flow between the process, materials and image making. Lithography offers me a very direct way of making painterly... marks within printmaking and carries with it a rich gamut of tones and textures such as reticulated washes and wood textures which mirror forms also present in nature. I walk and observe places while making quick sketches that later serve to situate myself back there with the movement, sounds and sensibilities. Back in the studio, I work on the matrix of stone or wood in a visceral manner creating a new landscape which taps into the feeling of being in that place.’ - @daniellecreenaune 2020. . Image: ‘Boira 1’ 2020, stone lithograph, mokulito and chine collé, edition unique, 10 x 10 cm . . . . . . #art #artist #printmaking #mokulito #lithography #contemporaryart #modernart #daniellecreenaune #landscape #abstractart #exhibition #interiordesign #design #melbourne See more

07.01.2022 ONLINE EXHIBITION Fragments presents a vibrant collection of original, contemporary artworks to help you bring your home to life! Each work in this group show gives us an enticing glimpse into the unique world of its creator, and encourages the viewer to contemplate the myriad interpretations a work of art allows. This curated selection of smaller, intimate pieces invites you to make your own personal connections to the artworks that speak to you. . Visit our website to v...iew Fragments today! . Image: Wayne Viney Two Palm Trees 2019, monotype, 23 x 24 cm . . . . . . . . . . . #art #spring #wayneviney #palmtrees #springtime #artist #painting #printmaking #mixedmedia #sculpture #colour #contemporaryart #modernart #artgallery #visualart #interiordesign #onlineart See more

06.01.2022 Bruce Latimer Travel Paintings is open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm, 15 Roylston Street, Paddington, Sydney until Sunday September 27. . "I made these paintings in response to things seen on my travels in Europe. At the time I dont think of them in terms of subject matter. Its only when I get home and examine my mountain of photos that possibilities appear the peculiarities of flamingos in the South of France, an unexplainable dried orange light fixture in a Berlin s...hop window or simplicity and power of Gerhard Richters stained glass in Cologne Cathedral. The process of visual improvisation begins by looking for some kind of sense by juxtaposing friendly but disparate components. Hopefully the combination succeeds in making the impossible seem possible. . These are oil paintings on copper a slippery and non-absorbent surface. I prefer to paint thinly so that the warm reflective metal at times appears, a reminder of the physicality of the object." - Bruce Latimer, 2020 . Image: Rocks and Melons 2019, oil on copper, 36 x 45 cm . . . . . . . . . . #art #artist #brucelatimer #travelpaintings #contemporaryart #painting #oiloainting #oiloncopper #sydney #nature #landscape #artgallery #exhibition #modernart See more

06.01.2022 This fantastic video invites us behind the scenes into the studio of @ronagreenart as she creates one of her wonderful hand coloured linocuts. . This print is currently available to view and purchase via our online stock rooms. Visit our website for details! Rona will be having an online solo show titled A Little Bit in November this year. Watch this space for more enticing snippets of whats to come from Ronas studio! . Image: @ronagreenart ... M-M-Michel 2020 hand coloured linocut 108 x 76 cm . . . . . . . . . . . #art #ronagreen #anthropomorphism #printmaking #linocut #artgallery #animals #contemporaryart #modernart #worksonpaper #exhibition See more

04.01.2022 An extensive collection of Belynda Henrys ethereal works in watercolour and gouache on paper are included in our online group exhibition Abstraction and further works from this series are available to view via the Stock Rooms pages at our website. . Painting on paper is completely therapeutic and a wonderful form of meditation. I drift off into my own little world, subconsciously releasing a summary of the last 25 years of practice. @belynda__henry, 2020 . Visit our web...site to view the immersive exhibition Abstraction today! . Image: @belynda__henry Tangle no 9 2020, watercolour and gouache on 640gsm Fabriano smooth paper, 76 x 56 cm . . . . . . . . . #art #abstraction #abstractart #belyndahenry #artist #painting #printmaking #mixedmedia #sculpture #colour #form #contemporaryart #modernart #artgallery #visualart #interiordesign #onlineart #belyndahenryworkonpaper #belyndahenrystudio #tangle See more

03.01.2022 We are so delighted to be open in Melbourne again and have recently re hung our entire Stock Rooms! All are warmly welcome to visit this incredible space 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm. . This is also the final week of our five wonderful solo exhibitions by artists Peter Neilson @jimmyrix ... @lewismiller_painter @daniellecreenaune and @ronagreenart which are installed throughout 28 & 35 Derby Street, Collingwood, and concluding Sunday December 6. We look forward to seeing you all this week! . Every artwork we have in stock can also be viewed online, simply follow the link in our profile . . . . . . . . . . . #art #painting #sculpture #printmaking #worksonpaper #limitededitionprint #artgallery #stockrooms #australianart #contemporaryart #visualart #interiordesign #colour See more

03.01.2022 G.W. Bots deep connection to the Australian landscape resonates poignantly throughout her work. She conveys with masterful skill and great sensitivity the beauty, power and vulnerability of the bushland she has observed and explored for many decades. . Recently, Bot has been working in the studio, printing 15 linocuts to accompany the poem, Requiem by Anna Akhmatova. The elegy is one of the great literary works of the 20th century, written over three decades, between 1935 ...and 1961, in which the poet transformed her personal grief into a universal lament. . These images will be used to create an artists book in collaboration with Peter Pounder of Polar Bear Press. It will be in an edition of 10 copies so far 6 copies have been printed. Bot writes,It took me a year to come to terms with the poem and be able to create my own parallel requiem before I could say, in Akhmatovas words, Could one ever describe this? and I answered, I can. These images can be read as a requiem for the loss and devastationof our land through droughts, fires and floods, rampant development and the weakness of governments that refuse to acknowledge and act on climate change and now a pandemic for the loss of our culture here in Australia and universally. . Read more about this incredible artist at our blog, and view a stunning selection of her work in our online stock room. . . . . . . . #art #gwbot #printmaking #poetry #glyphs #nature #landscape #artistbook #worksonpaper #contemporaryart #visualart See more

02.01.2022 @daniellecreenaune’s breathtaking works are now showing in our Melbourne Print Room gallery in her solo exhibition ‘Fragile States’. These beautiful works can be viewed in the gallery 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm, 28 Derby Street, Collingwood and also via the Exhibitions page at our website. Pictured here, both unframed and franed, is ‘Run away into the sun’ 2020, mokulito and chine colle on Kinugawa ivory Japanese paper, edition 6 E.V., 30 x 44.5 cm . ‘Fragile States’ is ...current until Sunday 6 December. . Pop in to the gallery any time, head to our website or get in touch with us on 03 9417 2422 or email [email protected] if you would like any further information. . . . . . . . #art #artist #printmaking #mokulito #lithography #contemporaryart #modernart #daniellecreenaune #landscape #abstractart #exhibition #interiordesign #design #melbourne #woodlithography #abstractlandscape See more

02.01.2022 Jimmy Rix’s beautiful sculptural exhibition ‘Domestic and Feral’ instills in the viewer such a sense of hope, joy and connectedness to the natural world. This exhibition is open 7 days a week from 10am to 6pm, 35 Derby Street, Collingwood, Melbourne until Sunday 6 December and can also be viewed in full via our website. . I have a love of all animals and the domestic animals in this exhibition are of our own pets, as well as pets I have encountered in the past. I like to ske...tch, making a lot of small images on a page. These become my sculpture. With this show I have gone from drawing into fabrication very quickly as I wanted to be in the moment; you could say that I stayed in the flow. . Often something gets entombed inside the sculpture during the making and can be heard when one shakes the work. Other times I like to place objects inside sculptures, I believe this give the work a soul. - Jimmy Rix, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . #art #jimmyrix #sculpture #contemporaryart #animals #nature #birds #cortensteel #steel #bronze #modernart #pets #contemporaryaculpture #artgallery #melbourne See more