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Kate Beynon in Salon des Refusés at the S.H. Ervin Gallery
Kate Beynon’s portrait Rali & The Spirits (2025) has been selected for the Salon des Refusés at the S.H. Ervin Gallery.
This “supernatural” portrait of the artist’s son Rali Beynon figures the Naarm-based emerging artist/animator Rali–known for his distinctive style and animated projection art–alongside two canine guardians. Appearing amongst symbolic elements—collaborative Mask Spirit figures, protective eyes, Snake Year motifs, a Black Power pin on Rali’s favourite jacket—Beynon draws upon upon signs and emblems from history to construct dynamic, transitional images that centre familial connections and exchange.
Salon des Refusés 10 May – 27 July 2025 S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Congratulations to Gian Manik, who has been listed as a finalist for the Art Gallery of South Australia’s prestigious Ramsay Art Prize.
The prize, open to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium, aims to support and encourage contemporary practitioners to make a significant work at a pivotal moment in their career.
Finalist’s works were selected by an eminent panel of judges, and will be shown in a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia which opens May 2025. The winning work–judged from the exhibition and acquired into the Gallery’s collection–will be announced on 30 May, with the winning artist receiving $100,000 thanks to the generosity of the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation.
Ramsay Art Prize 31 May – 31 August 2025 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Anne-Marie May at the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Three of Anne-Marie May’s early denim works (Untitled, 1991) are included in the group exhibition Eye to Eye: The Susan Taylor and Peter Jones Collection at the Australian National University’s Drill Hall Gallery.
Bringing into focus Susan Taylor and Peter Jones’s art collection on the advent of the collection’s 25th anniversary, the exhibition showcases the breadth of the Canberran couple’s collection of art.
Seeded from an initial interest in mid-century modern design and early twentieth century avant-gardes, the collection blossomed into an embrace of non-objective and abstract art. Revelling in the intersections between conceptual art, geometric abstraction, seriality, non-objective painting, photography, contemporary jewellery and poetics, the exhibition develop conjunctions across time, place and materiality.
Eye to Eye: The Susan Taylor and Peter Jones Collection 18 April – 15 June, 2025 Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
Kate Smith: Shampoo Studio at Murray Art Museum Albury
Kate Smith’s inaugural institutional solo show Shampoo Studio is opening at the Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) in Albury, NSW.
As part of the institution’s nginha: you are here programme, the exhibition celebrates the Wagga Wagga-based artist’s spontaneity, quickness, and attention to the generally unseen moments that contribute to the construction of paintings such as doodles and underpainting. Smith’s layered, complex surfaces reflect the mechanics of painting and create open pictorial spaces where the heartfelt and the self-ironising can co-exist.
Kate Smith: Shampoo Studio 9 May – 21 September 2025 Murray Art Museum Albury
