Summer House

24th September - 17 October 2011
Gallery Ecosse at 'Halcyon'
Exeter Rd, Exeter NSW

www.galleryecosse.com.au

 

group shows september - december 2011:

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Emerging Artist Award
RBS Tower, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney
Exhibition 1 Monday, 12 September - Friday, 23 September
Exhibition 2 Monday, 26 September - Friday, 7 September
Finalist Display Monday, 10 October - Friday, 28 October

 

Edwina Corlette
Saison Finale
EXHIBITION OPENS: Saturday, 26 November 2-5pm
26 November - 17 December 2011
2/555 Brunswick Street, New Farm QLD

www.edwinacorlette.com

 

City of Perth Black Swan Prize for Portraiture
16th September - 26th September 2011
Perth Town Hall,
Cnr Hay St & Barrack Street,
Perth - Western Australia

www.blackswanprize.com.au

 

group shows in melbourne and sydney may - june 2011:

Nothing is true, everything is permitted
7th July - 13th August 2011
Curated by Clementine Blackman and Kat Sapera
Chalk Horse
8 Lacey Street Surry Hills NSW

www.chalkhorse.com.au

Painting 11
1 July – 30 July 2011
Lindberg Galleries
Level 2/289 Flinders Lane Melbourne VIC

www.lindbergcontemporary.com.au

High Definition
June 22 – July 16 2011
Ausin Tung Gallery
164 High St Prahran VIC

www.ausintunggallery.com

High Definition
The State of Australian Painting in a Neo-Digital Age
Opening Friday 6 May 6-9pm
6 May - 4 June 2011
Paradise Hills
1-9 Doon St Richmond VIC

www.paradisehills.com.au

Between Sea and Sky
Shakespeare Grove Studio Artists
opening Thursday 19 May 6-8pm
19 May - 6 June 2011
Brightspace
8 Martin St St Kilda VIC

www.brightspace.com.au

 

finalist in the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize

12 February – 3 April 2011

Bendigo Art Gallery
Bendigo VIC

Bendigo Art Gallery

 

finalist in the Redland Art Awards

7 November - 5 December 2010

Redland Art Gallery
Cleveland QLD

Redland Art Gallery

 

finalist in the Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize

4 December 2010 - 6 Febuary 2011

Gold Coast City Gallery
Surfers Paradise QLD

The Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize

 

carnival of mysteries

From 6th - 30th October 2010

Melbourne Festival

Run away to the Carnival, where circus stars and sideshow queens, poets and daredevils, painters, playwrights, aerialists and food artistes concoct a heady mix of unforgettable entertainment under a handmade starry sky

Overhead, underfoot and throughout four extraordinary intricate sites, the Carnival of Mysteries seduces audiences with the work of 30 unique artists commissioned to respond to the Mysteries of Innocence, Passion, Mercy, Forgiveness and Love.

Created by Moira Finucane & Jackie Smith

Featuring the work of David Anderson, Doyle Barrow, Jeanne Brown, Rachel Burke, Catherine Carmody, Shirley Cattunar, Julian Chapple, Carolyn Connors, Yvette Coppersmith, Paul Cordeiro, Maude Davey, Margaret Dobson, Cathy Drummond, Holly Durant, Madeline Farrugia, Christopher Green, Ben Harmer, Monique Harvey, The Sisters Hayes (Christina, Esther & Rebecca), Derek Ives, Caroline Lee, Toni Lamond, Heidrun Lohr, Brian Lucas, Lois Olney, Peta Murray, Marko Respondeck, Lily Paskas, Jess Perry, Harriet Ritchie, Betty Siemers, Anne Marie Storm, Lin Tobias, Yumi Umiumare, Azaria Universe, Timothy Webb, Darrin Verhagen, Sosina Wogayehu

Melbourne Festival Web Site

 

finalist in the Xstrata Percival Portrait Award

3 September - 28 November 2010

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Townsville QLD

Link: Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

 

loft suite

From 22nd July - 7th August 2010

Solo show at Chalk Horse Gallery

94 Cooper Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Wed - Sat 12 to 6 PM
and by appointment
Ph +61 (0)2 9211 8999

Images...

 

finalist in the 2010 fletcher jones art prize

24 July – 12 September 2010

Geelong Gallery, Victoria

The Fletcher Jones Art Prize is an acquisitive painting prize, conducted by the Geelong Gallery on a biennial basis. The $30,000 prize money is generously sponsored by Fletcher Jones.

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the outsider

5th May - 22nd May, 2010

Trocadero Artspace

Level 1/119 Hopkins Street
Footscray VIC 3011
Wed - Sat 11am to 5pm

 

charity art auction and calendar launch
TBI calendar 2010 / 5770

Sunday 2nd August, 2009 from 2pm

Slome Hall, Temple Beth Israel
82 Alma Road, St Kilda
Entry by Donation
email info@tbi.org.au

Featured Artists:
Rachel Boymal, Joseph Brown, Peter Churcher, Yvette Coppersmith, Jen Duband, Ben Elisha, Michelle Hamer, Rachel Irons, Gilly Jedwab, Adam Nudelman, Yaeli Ohana, Anne Ross, Wilma Tabacco, Lilian Weinberg, Frank Werther.

 

the opera room

14th October - 11th November 2009

Horus and Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Sydney

www.horusanddeloris.com.au
Level 2, 102 Pyrmont Street,
Pyrmont NSW 2009
(02) 9660 6071
Wed - Fri 11am - 5pm
Sat 11am - 3pm

 

archibald finalist 2009

March - April 2009

Art Gallery of NSW

The Archibald Prize

 

blue series

11 - 27 June 2009

Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

www.chalkhorse.com.au
94 Cooper St
Surrey Hills NSW 2010
(02) 9211 8999
Wed - Sat 12 - 6pm

 

gallery

10 - 23 December 2008

Metro Gallery

www.metrogallery.com.au
1214 High St Armadale 3143
PHONE: 03 9500 8511
FAX: 03 9500 8599
Tues to Fri 10am to 5.30pm
Sat and Sun 11am to 5pm

Reviews:
Artshub Australia
The Age

 

portia geach memorial award finalist 2008

3 October - 9 November 2008

National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney

Self Portrait and John Safran
Oil on masonite
2 x 122cm x 91.5cm

Accompanying Wall Text:
Most recently my work delves into some of the tensions of relationships in everyday interactions with professional acquaintances and friends.

Prompted by interpersonal dynamics with people in positions of social/professional power, the outcome has been painted portraits and self portraits. The staging of the work toys with the notion of an intimate gaze and the agency of the gaze to transform the interplay between the artist, the subject, and the viewer.

Levels of power and control affect peoples' lives and to varying degrees are influenced by respective professional/social roles. 'Self Portrait and John Safran' draws on the tangle of trust and power between artist and muse.

As a side story, the two works were completed without the intention to be companions. John had seen his portrait, though didn't know about the later addition of the self portrait - until after the diptych was accepted as a finalist. He commented, 'it's like doing a TV interview then being completely misrepresented once it's edited'. A follow up portrait of John Safran is planned for later in 2008.

archibald finalist 2008

March - April 2008

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blue series

21st February - 8 March 2008

Blindside Artist Run Space
Level 7, Room 14,
Nicholas Building
37 Swanston street,
Melbourne 3000
info@blindside.org.au
www.blindside.org.au
PH: 03 9650 0093

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portia geach memorial award finalist 2007

This year's Award attracted submissions of 316 works from which 55 works were selected for the exhibition at the S H Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill from 28 September to 4 November.

Untitled (Moira Finucane as 'Victoriana')
oil on linen
81.5cm x 122.5cm

Accompanying text:
In the Summer of 2004 I sat in the Spiegeltent in Melbourne, grinning , as the performers of The Burlesque Hour unleashed their intoxicating magic. By the end of the show, the thought - as unreaslistic as it first seemed - had embedded itself; to paint at least just one character...the woman in the Victorian black taffeta dress. Internationally acclaimed Queen of Cabaret Bizarre, Moira Finucane in her work Victoriana - a Gothic revival, a mesmerising slow burn of repressed desire and grief.

The Burlesque Hour is a lush velvet trimmed salon, where Finucane & Smith (Moira Finucane & Jackie Smith), renowned creators of intimate theatrical spectacles where variety, fairy tale, cabaret, the gothic, and burlesque are melded into indelible visions of gender, power, violence and desire. Described by Finucane & Smith as a 'revolution in a chocolate box', The Burlesque Hour, is an astonishing and edgy performance around femininity and sexuality and packaged in an accessible, sophisticated and cutting edge salon.

In 2004 The Burlesque Hour won four Green Room Awards for Cabaret. It has toured nationally and internationally at numerous festivals. In three years The Burlesque Hour has been seen by over 25,000 people