Fusionscape: Corangamarah Art Prize

Pre-selected finalist in Art Award

Abstraction in focus

Solo exhibition of paintings referencing abstraction as process

Mediation

Exhibition catalogue with images and essay on the artists work

ICON: response[s] to Tower Hill

A solo exhibition of paintings and mixed media artworks based on Tower Hill, an extinct volcanic site located near to Warrnambool.  

Exchange

EXCHANGE was curated by Liza McCosh and highlighted the practice of Beijing artist Zhou Mian and Melbourne artist Denise Keele-bedford who spends several months each year creating and exhibiting her artwork in China.  The exhibition comprised a body of politically based paintings from Zhou Mian executed in a traditional Western style alongside the mixed media artworks from Keele-bedford which had an obvious Eastern influence. 

SCOPE Galleries Art Award: Art Concerning Environment

Curated by Liza McCosh, a major exhibition of pre-selected artwork that includes painting, drawing and sculpture. The exhibition included fifty five preselected artists/artworks from across Australia.The Art Concerning Environment Award is a national biennial award and the exhibition attempts to provide a platform that facilitates debate and promotes art as a catalyst for change.  The exhibition was supported by a public lecture on Climate Change (June 2, Warrnambool Art gallery) and facilitated by Guy Abrahams (guest judge).

See:  
www.scopegalleries.com
www.warrnambool.vic.gov.au/index.php?q=node/1266
Ziegeler, Bonnie, "Artworks with a green hue vie for %5000 award in Warrnambool", The Standard, June 3, 2012.

The Volcanic Series

A major solo exhibition of paintings (25) by Liza McCosh. Inspired by the volcanic topography of the South West Victorian landscape.  The artwork is abstracted in nature and worked in the media of acrylicand oil glaze on canvas.

Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum : history and collections

A publication of works from the permanent collection and a history to mark the centenary of the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum. The photographs have been produced using superimposed exposures of polarised and non-polarised light; a technique for the optical and digital enhancement of colour saturation, reflection reduction and surface effects in reprography of painting developed by James McArdle.

Shimmering light: Dora Meeson and the Thames

This soft-cover book is a catalogue of the exhibiiton held 21 September – 10 November 2013 at Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum. The majority of photographs for the publication have been produced using superimposed exposures of polarised and non-polarised light; a technique for the optical and digital enhancement of colour saturation, reflection reduction and surface effects in reprography of painting developed by James McArdle. In this instance the highly textured brushwork of Dora Meeson benefits from the treatment. 

On the river

Oil painting, reproduced, in the Art Vault Mildura 5th anniversary exhibition catalogue

The dictionary

The Portia Geach Memorial Award is a celebration of female Australian artists. It’s Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize for female artists and has greatly contributed to the development of female artists in this country. It was established by Florence Kate Geach in 1961 in memory of her sister, Portia Geach and is awarded each year to the best portrait painted from life of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters or the Sciences. Our judges this year are Jane Watters, Director S.H. Ervin Gallery, Dr Lindy Lee, Senior Lecturer, Sydney College of the Arts and Ben Quilty, Artist. A media release with the full list of finalists will be distributed tomorrow morning with further details available at www.thetrustcompany.com.au/portiageach. The artwork The Dictionary will be hung in the S.H. Ervin Gallery from 3 October until 16 November, with the exhibition open from 4 October, 1st Prize money $30,000

Hawthorn I

An original artwork that belongs to a series of paintings, all connected to an ongoing investigation of the multi-panelled painting.

Hawthorn II

One of a series of 2 panel oil paintings that explored the Diptych as an iconic theme.

Prayer

One of a series of double panel oil paintings that explored the nature of the icon and its diptych form