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
Helga Groves’ painting Colours of the Arctic Fells (2003) is currently on view at the Macquarie University Art Gallery, featured in the collection group exhibition Australian Abstraction in Context.
Curated by Rhonda Davis and Kon Gouriotis, Australian Abstraction in Context reflects upon the legacies of the varietal imports, indices and counterparts of abstraction. The exhibition highlights Australia-based artists’ practices that challenge the aesthetic orthodoxies of abstraction, particularly the idea of shape as content, while revealing new ways of thinking and talking about Australian abstraction.
Australian Abstraction in Context
Macquarie University Art Gallery, Gadigal/Sydney
20 June – 5 August 2024
Presented as part of Big Questions Institute’s The Pilbara Series: A fusion of Art and Science, Helga Groves exhibits a new body of work Lithic Elements (Pilbara Series) at Steamm Studios in Wolloongabba, Queensland.
Invited to participate in the 2022 BQXpedition to explore the Pilbara’s origin of life stromatolite sites, Groves continues her investigations into geophysical processes and natural phenomena.
Steamm Studios
6-8 Trafalgar St, Woolloongabba QLD 4102
17 – 21 August 2023
STEAMM Studios is a unique multi-disciplinary art studio, showcasing the intersection of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Maths and Music (STEM + Art & Music).
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Congradulations to Helga Groves who is included in the 2022 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship exhibition held at the Sydney College of Arts.
Exhibition Dates: 29 Sep – 29 Oct.
Congratulations to artists Brett Colquhoun, Ann Debono and Helga Groves as finalists in this years Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize.
Established in 2015, the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize is a celebration of contemporary Australian painting. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting in Australia today.
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Exhibition 6 May – 26 June 2022.
Congratulations to Helga Groves who has been selected by Bendigo Art Gallery for this year’s finalist exhibition. Thirty-four finalists have been selected and the winner of this popular $50,000 acquisitive painting prize will be announced in November. Prize exhibition dates: 20 November 2021 – 13 February 2022, held at Bendigo Art Gallery.
Rosslynd Piggott, Helga Groves and Brett Colquhoun have been named as finalists in the 2021 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. An exhibition of finalists work will be on view at Geelong Gallery from Saturday 29 May to Sunday 22 August 2021.
Raafat Ishak and Helga Groves are included in The Space We Live, the Air We Breathe at Counihan Gallery, Moreland City Council. The exhibition brings together seven local artists in a poetic rendering of the creative life of Moreland. Importantly, the artists in this show are social commentators, forever casting an eye on their social and political surrounds. The artworks included build an interesting dialogue, emphasising Moreland as a hotbed of creative and socio-political discourse.
Helga Groves is included in WONDER + DREAD: Art in the Land of Weather Extremes at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, New South Wales. The exhibition – which features Groves’ seminal work Flood (1999), on loan from the Art Gallery of New South Wales – considers how Australian artists have responded to extreme weather events across time. WONDER + DREAD runs from 12 December, 2020 — 20 January, 2021.
Curated by Dr Catherine Bell and including represented artists Helga Groves and Jane Trengove, FEM-aFFINITY brings together female artists from Arts Project Australia and across the country whose work shares an affinity of subject and process. The Devonport iteration runs until 15 March 2020 and will continue to tour nationally through out 2020-2021.
Both Kate Beynon and Helga Groves have been selected as finalists in the 2019 R & M McGivern Prize. This year, the theme for the $25,000 acquisitive prize is ‘Anthropocene’, calling for artists across Australia to consider the impact of human habitation on the environment. An exhibition of finalists work will be held across Maroondah City Council’s arts spaces from late November.
R & M McGivern Prize 2019
ArtSpace at Realm/Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery
23 November, 2019 – 1 February, 2020
Sights Unseen: Recent Acquisitions from the Moreland Art Collection draws together artworks held by the municipality not previously exhibited at the Counihan Gallery In Brunswick.
Sights Unseen: Recent Acquisitions from the Moreland Art Collection Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
27 July – 18 August, 2019
Helga Groves and Jane Trengove are both included in FEM-aFFINITY, a group show curated by Catherine Bell. The exhibition brings together female contemporary artists from Arts Project Australia and wider Victoria whose work share an affinity of subject and process. In doing so, FEM-aFFINITY seeks to uncover shared perspectives and variations on female identity. Following its first iteration, the exhibition will tour nationally throughout 2020 and 2021.
Congratulations to Helga Groves and Kate Beynon who have both been selected as finalists in the 2019 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize.
2019 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize
Bayside Gallery, Brighton Town Hall
24 May – Sunday 21 July, 2019
