Sutton Gallery stands on what always was and always will be the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We respectfully recognise their ancestors and Elders past and present. We acknowledge Aboriginal connection to material and creative practice on these lands for more than 60,000 years.
We are pleased to announce that Stephen Bush and Helga Groves are finalists in this year’s Paul Guest Drawing Prize. Presented by the Bendigo Art Gallery, the non-acquisitive biennial prize highlights contemporary drawing practice in Australia.
Paul Guest Drawing Prize 2024
30 November 2024 – 27 January 2025
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
Kate Beynon has been selected for the Portia Geach Memorial Award 2024, Australia’s most prestigious art prize for portraiture by women artists.
Beynon’s portrait, entitled Shapeshifters (Supernatural Self & Fam Spirits) (2024) depicts the artist alongside supernatural portrayals of her creative family. Imaged in a violet dreamscape surrounded by vibrant botanical motifs and guardian spirit, the portrait encapsulates the artist’s longstanding enquiry into the hybridity and latency of identity.
Portia Geach Memorial Award
25 October – 15 December, 2024
S.H Ervin Gallery
Sydney, NSW 2000
Karen Black is featured in the new Thames & Hudson publication About Face: Contemporary Portrait Painting in Australia and New Zealand, edited by Amber Creswell Bell. Examining the practices of a diverse and dynamic nature of portraiture in Australia and New Zealand today, the book focuses on how artists mediate a classical genre to convey layered narratives, engage with social, political or environmental issues or evoke the complexity of the human experience.
Vivienne Binns’ acclaimed video work Self-portrait, self-image (1980) will feature in the forthcoming exhibition The Possibilities are Immense, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne. Produced during the seminal Mothers’ memories others’ memories project undertaken in various academic and community venues in Sydney between 1979 and 1981, the two-channel slide work with overlaid audio interview features images of Vivienne’s mother Joyce Binns alongside corresponding years in Vivienne’s life.
Renowned for as a genesis point for some of Australia’s most well-known artists, writers and curators, the George Paton Gallery has a rich history of fostering experimentation, new media, and innovative artistic practices. For over fifty years the gallery has played a crucial role in championing progressive art movements, encouraged new media such as video and performance art and provided a forum for ideas, debate and innovation.
The Possibilities Are Immense: Fifty Years of the George Paton Gallery
George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Naarm/Melbourne
24 October – 9 November 2024
