Christopher Allen reviews our exhibition Andrew Sayers: Nature Through the Glass of Time in The Australian Sat 13 June 2015. Please read the review Andrew Sayers Review The Australian 2015.
The exhibition has also been reviewed by Ramon Martinez Mendosa for ArtsHub on 2nd June 2015. Please read the review here.
Andrew Sayers: Review in The Australian and on ArtsHub
Christopher Allen reviews our exhibition Andrew Sayers: Nature Through the Glass of Time in The Australian Sat 13 June 2015. Please read the review here.
The exhibition has also been reviewed by Ramon Martinez Mendosa for ArtsHub on 2nd June 2015. Please read the review here.
The Federal Government announced in the recent Budget that all small business will get an immediate deduction for any individual assets they but costing less than $20,000. Artwork is eligible and purchases of artwork qualify for the immediate tax deduction measure.
There are also possible implications for artworks in self-managed super funds.
For further details, please click here or contact the Gallery.
The Object Divine exhibition in current edition of Craft Arts magazine 2015
The current edition of Craft Arts magazine (no. 93) features our past exhibition The Object Divine with is focus on sculpture and with text by Christopher Menz. A selection of works from the exhibition are still available and on view at the Gallery. The catalogue is available to download from our Past Exhibitions section.
Andrew Sayers article in the Australian Financial Review Magazine.
Katrina Strickland’s article, Director’s Cut for the Australian Financial Review magazine appeared on Friday 27 February 2015. Please click here to read. Andrew’s exhibition opens at Lauraine Diggins Fine Art on 2 May 2015.
Iron Cross from the original gravesite of Mother Mary MacKillop on show at LDFA
Mother Mary MacKillop died in August 1909 and was buried at Gore Hill cemetery, North Sydney where her grave was believed to have been marked with a marble stone and decorative iron cross. In 1914 she was exhumed and moved to the newly completed Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel in Mount Street, North Sydney. As with the original tombstone, the new vault was a gift from Joanna Barr Smith (nee Elder). Mary MacKillop had met Joanna and her husband Robert Barr Smith within the first few years of her founding the Order of the Sisters of Saint Joseph and the two women became life-long friends.
The original headstone and cross for Gore Hill appears to have been retained by Joanna as a memento and both were later located at the Barr Smith family home in Adelaide. Her elder son Thomas, inherited Birksgate from Joanna’s brother, Sir Thomas Elder. It was at this location that the headstone and cross were located in 1972 when the contents of Birksgate were sold by public auction.
The cross and the marble headstone were separated around this time, with the headstone being acquired by South Australian collection, David Roche, and used as a plinth for a sculpture in Roche’s garden until the mid 1990s when its significance was discovered by the gardener. The cross has remained in the collection of the purchaser at the auction at Birksgate. Saint Mary of the Cross was canonised as Australia’s first saint in 2010.
Mary MacKillop Cross included in exhibition The Object Divine
Article in The Age newspaper 11 November 2014 – click here
For Polish speakers, a you tube preview and interview with Robert Clinch at his exhibition, Sounds of Silence at the National Museum of Szczecin in Poland. Please click here.
Congratulations to both Cowboy Loy Pwerl and Genevieve Loy Kemarr who are finalists in this year’s Alice Art Prize : National Contemporary Art Award. There were 66 finalists selected from 490 entries. The exhibition is showing at Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs from 10 May – 9 June 2014.