2021 Banyule Award for Works on Paper

 

 

This Friday is the Opening Night and Award Ceremony for the 2021 Banyule Award for Works on Paper. ⁠

This prestigious national art prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding contemporary work on paper, with the winning artwork entered into the Banyule Art Collection.

The theme this year is 'Community'. In this COVID world we asked artists to consider what community means to them, and to provide us with inspiration and reflection through their various works on paper.

2021 Finalists include Rosalind Atkins, Lee Bethel, Victoria Bilogan, Maggie Brown, Karen Coull, Carolyn Craig, Chelle Destefano, Kathy Fahey, Christine Fontana, Claire Grant, Bridget Hillebrand, Winsome Jobling, Anna Kiparis, Damon Kowarsky, Kir Larwill, Lucy Maddox, Ally McKay, Claire Mooney, Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon, Harry Nankin, Eunice Napanangka Jack, Mitjili Napurrula, Phuong Ngo, Catherine O’Donnell, Glenda Orr, Chris Orr, Laura Osborne, Caroline Phillips (with Claire Field), Brian Robinson, Anne Starling, Liz Walker, Cleo Wilkinson, Carole Dawn Wilson, and Maria Anna Zeiss.

 Art Gallery 275
@ Ivanhoe Library & Cultural Hub
275 Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe

Gallery hours
Wednesday to Friday 10am to 6pm
Saturday 10am to 5pm
Sunday 11am to 4pm

Exhibition continues 14 January to 13 March 2022

Opening Night and Award Ceremony Friday 25 February from 6 to 8pm

Review in The Canberra Times

 

The Miracle of Shorebird Migration

 

You are invited to

The Miracle of Shorebird Migration

An Overwintering Project exhibition in South West WA as part of the South Coast Festival of Birds and Biodiversity.

17 February to 17 March 2022

Butter Factory Arts Studio and Gallery, Denmark

Opening 515 to 730 pm, 17 February 2022

Linden Postcard Show - Meet the Artist

Exhibition - 'Travelling Without Moving'

 

Megalo is very excited to invite you to Travelling Without Moving, our upcoming exhibition by Melbourne/Naarm artist Damon Kowarsky. The exhibition presents Kowarsky’s beautifully rendered etching and aquatints, through which he explores human and non-human landscapes.

The core of Damon Kowarsky’s work across drawing, printmaking and painting lies in his interpretation of architectural spaces and public landscapes worldwide. Throughout his travels in Europe, Asia and the Americas, he collects experiences and vistas for translation into evocative, narrative and immersive images. The exhibition includes
work created over the past four years, spanning a period of disruption that has both challenged and inspired Kowarsky’s practice.

About the artist:

Damon Kowarsky studied printmaking at Victorian College of the Arts and Glasgow School of Art. Since graduating he has travelled extensively. Architecture and the colours of earth and sky inspire much of his work. Kowarsky has received numerous awards and exhibited widely both in Australia and internationally.

Travelling Without Moving runs 5 February to 19 March
Megalo is open 9.30am to 5pm | Tuesday to Saturday

Megalo Print Studio
21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston, ACT 2604

Art Lovers Australia Art Prize 2022

 

Tomorrow is the last day to vote for 'Cafe, Xian' in the Art Lovers Australia Art Prize 2022 People's Choice Award. If you are able to, please vote for my work and go in the draw to win a $1,000 ALA Gift Voucher by clicking this link.

This drawing was made last year as part of Faber-Castell's 'Colour4Life' promotion and is a portrait of my partner Kim enjoying iced tea and drawing at Starbucks in Xian. It was the best way to people watch and stay out of the summer heat!⁠

Once again huge thanks to Faber-Castell for supporting artists around Australia. It's so good to be able to make art using their amazing pencils.