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Melbourne painter Stephen Nova's exhibition 'The Animated House' was reviewed in an interview for a online journal based in Europe by freelance journalist Anna Battista.
Image shown: 'Luna' , oil on canvas, 77 x 112 cm
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Read the excellent Review of Adelaide artist Peter Serwan's exhibition currently showing at Hill Smith Gallery by Jane Lewellyn.
Image shown: 'Sprawl', 2015, oil on linen on board, 45.5 x 83.5 cm
HSG are delighted to announce our participation in Art Central Hong Kong in March 2016 at which we will be showcasing a new series of paintings by the very accomplished Melbourne-based artist, Matthew Johnson.
Matthew’s diverse travel and cultural experiences have imparted a considerable influence on his art practice, the legacy of which has become distilled through the archetypal filter of oil and pigment. The underlying compositional structures of his paintings are repetitive – grids, geometric patterns, stripes or sequential arrangements drawn from nature.
Matthew has observed of his practice: "My current oeuvre started in early 2000 and over the past 10 years the paintings have become more honed and refined. …In essence my practice is relatively cyclical in nature. I often return to earlier conceptual applications and redefine these processes by different means, whether it be in painting, design or architecture."
Matthew’s work is held in numerous private and corporate collections nationally and internationally, including Artbank, Crown Towers Melbourne, Macquarie Bank, Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Smorgan Collection, Heide Museum of Art and the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania. As an adjunct to his art practice, Matthew is continually developing site specific architectural installations throughout Australia.
work shown: (detail) Cloud Dawn, oil on linen, 90 x 70 cm
HSG are delighted to announce our participation in Art Central Hong Kong in March 2016 at which we will be showcasing a new series of paintings by the very accomplished Melbourne-based artist, Matthew Johnson.
Contact the gallery for further details and to join our mailing list.
View details of Art Central Hong Kong Website
Congratulations to Louise Feneley on her selection as a Finalist in the Kennedy Art Prize 2015, the second year of the South Australian based national art prize.
Louise's oil on linen painting "A Way Through' (oil on linen) was the work selected as a finalist. HSG wish Louise the very best in the selection process. A detail of the work is shown here.
Contact the gallery regarding available works of this highly skilled and nationally accomplished painter
Congratulations to Adelaide artist Laura Wills on winning the 2016 Tatiara Art Prize, (Acquisitive) $10,000 for her work "Murray Map", digital print and pastel on archival paper (ed 5).
View works by Laura Wills on HSG Website, for enquiries contact the gallery.
The exhibition can be viewed until 27 November at Bordertown's Walkway Gallery. View details online at Tatiara Art Prize.
Congratulations to Simon Finn who was recently awarded the Banyule Works on Paper Award at Hatch Contemporary Art Space based on the theme "In Space".
The prize was awarded by the selection panel of Linda Michael - Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Dr Isobel Crombie - Assistant Director, Curatorial and Collection Management at NGV, Greg Creek - Artist, Senior Lecturer and MFA Program Co-ordinator at RMIT.
Artwork details:
Title: Steady State intervention
Dimensions: 140 x 90 cm (framed)
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Steady State Intervention is an exploration into the variable syntheses between artist, environment and technology. He has utilised virtual representations of spatial and temporal capabilities as subject matter for a tangible drawing. Through the use of complex digital modeling, rendering and physics computation, Simon freezes single moments in simulated space and duration before being extrapolated into an intricate charcoal rendering.
The work’s motif is of an observation tower in the moments of devastation due to a simulated natural force, revealing a fragmented depiction of motion in digital space as it disperses into the static.
Another work by Simon Finn, "Steady State Disturbance" has been selected from 504 entries to be presented in the Darebin Art Prize. Finalists' work will be on display from 11 December 2015 - 21 February 2016 at the Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora, Vic.
The jury was made up of 2 staff members of Bundoora Homestead Art Centre and Charlotte Day, Director of Monash University Museum of Art. HSG congratulates Simon on another wonderful achievement. Contact the gallery regarding available works.
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Artwork: Steady State Disturbance (detail shown)
Medium: charcoal on paper
Dimensions: 140 x 90 cm (framed
Simon Finn is currently undertaking a Residency in Indonesia at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB).
Galeri Soemardja October - December 2015.
During the residency, Simon will aim to construct a large sculptural work on the coastline of Indonesia. The structure is loosely based on a variety of observation towers—Panopticon's, fire lookouts and tsunami observation towers. The structure would represent the final stages in a body of work that is a response to human fragility in the face of oceanographic devastation.
He will also be exhibiting a series of new works at Galeri Soemardja, and conducting a series of lectures and workshops at the Bandung Institute of Technology.
HSG wish Simon our best wishes for this undertaking, looking forward to feedback upon his return to Australia in December.
Read John Neylon's review of 'The Special Goodness' by Deidre But-Husaim in The Adelaide Review of But-Husaim's first solo show in Adelaide.
The Special Goodness by John Neylon
image shown: 'Omikuji' oil on linen, 102 x 102 cm
The exhibition can be viewed at Hill Smith Gallery, main gallery space 3 - 17 October 2015.