Exhibitions
The River by Jane Grealy
19th April - 7th MayGrealy has enjoyed a successful career as an architectural illustrator since 1979, whose work is based on observation of both existing and imagined buildings, landscapes and spaces. Although her transition to the art world came much later, Grealy’s architectural training has allowed her to hone technical skills in perspective and art media, while providing a liberating outlet for her creative pursuits.
Her current focus is on the natural environment and the balance with the built environment. In the “River” watercolour series, building frames and surveyor’s marks suggest how a future building might be positioned, drawing attention to an environment that is under threat from urbanization and advancing industry.
Since 2015, Grealy has gone on to feature as a finalist and prize winner for many national and international prizes, most recently winning the Dobell Drawing Prize #23 in 2023.
Her work is represented in the Museum of Brisbane Collection, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Collection, the Kedumba Collection of Australian drawings, National Art School, and in a number of private collections in Australia.
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April Showcase
18 April - 4 MayNew work from our resident gallery artists!
Featured artists include:
Bronwyn Hill
Daevid Anderson
Ai Shah
Pat Hall
Peter Berner
Gary Abkin
Kristen Lethem
and introducing...
Ryan Daffurn
Jenny Allnutt
Lethbridge Landscape Prize
11 - 28 May 2024The award invites all artistic interpretations of the Australian landscape, from conventional to the unusual, and from monumental to intricate. The definition of ‘landscape’ has been extended to include urbanscapes and interiors.
Alexandra Matthews
1 - 18 June 2024Alexandra’s journey in urban landscape painting depicts an intimacy with her local inner-city suburbs of Brisbane, as a walking pace unfurls streetscapes. Highly detailed, she strives to depict architectural features accurately while encapsulating the essence of the iconic area. Light plays an important role, delineating the strong repetition of colonial architectural features. Capturing views authentically, her paintings uncover the hidden splendour of the familiar and a sense of place.
Bronwyn Searle
1 - 18 June 2024Two different subject settings are brought together in this collection through formal and informal placement of found flora. While Bronwyn has brought found blooms and leaves inside to be put on show and shared, the chalk drawings on various pathways evoke memory of childhood freedoms for play and self expression.
Scott McDougall
21 June - 9 July 2024Scott McDougall’s career spans an impressive four decades. Since beginning his artist’s practice in Queensland, Scott has travelled extensively, capturing intimately observed moments across the globe. Employing highly refined painting techniques Scott’s paintings poetically describe places and people using beautifully controlled colour harmonies, carefully modulated tones and an exacting attention to detail.
Matt James
21 June - 9 July 2024Brisbane artist Matt James’ art practice is focussed upon landscape painting and drawing. Having grown up in rural West Wales, Matt’s love of the outdoors is the key driver of his dynamic works.
Based on pencil and oil sketches created in situ, from photographs, and from his recollection of locations, Matt’s dynamic representations of place arise from a synthesis of memory and sense impressions. Considered observation of the shape of the landscape, the movement of clouds, the perception of distance and the shifting of light inform Matt’s thickly textured approach, allowing him to move between representational and abstract responses to places.
Lethbridge 20000
13 - 30 July 2024With a first prize of $20 000, the Lethbridge Art Award is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit a 2D or 3D artwork up to 61cm (24 inches) in height, width, or depth. Judging is based on three equally evaluated criteria of creativity, originality, and skill.
Joe Whyte
2 -20 August 2024Joe Whyte is a Melbourne-based Visual Artist and Illustrator. After graduating from Monash University with a degree in Visual Communication, he spent time developing his craft, studying classical drawing, and painting in Argenton-Chateau, France. Working in various drawing mediums and oil paints, his intricate works draw inspiration from the people, places and character of Melbourne's inner-north.
Joe has exhibited widely and has been shortlisted for numerous awards both nationally and internationally. He was the winner of the 2020 A.M.E Bale Drawing Prize.
Warren Crossett
2 - 20 August 2024Warren Crossett is an artist based in Melbourne whose work is often an ode to the past, with elements of the old masters and surrealism mixed together, often employing symbols and metaphors. When depicting general subjects the philosophy of beauty in simple things is displayed as well as commitment to working from life.
His subject matter ranges from portraiture, landscapes, still life and conceptual themes with incorporated symbology.
Marisa Veerman
23 August - 17 September 2024Marisa Veerman is a Brisbane based fine artist working in the areas of photography and textiles. Forging a career as a textile visual merchandiser in fabric boutiques across the state, Marisa was well known for her creative expertise in sculpting theatrical pieces on mannequins using pins and fabric alone.
An emerging force in the art world, Marisa has now established a unique space through the creation of mixed media photographic works that are embellished with fine embroidery and beading. Using carefully staged and costumed models, Veerman utilises light and long-exposure times to effect a melancholic and ethereal beauty, transcendent of time and place.
Scott Breton
20 September - 15 October 2024Using a range of traditional drawing, painting and sculpting media as well as exploring digital counterparts to these, Scott sees plastic composition rather than any particular media as the core of the classical ethos. He is interested in how this sense of plasticity can be utilised by the contemporary artist. This endeavour seems to closely mirror a more general exploration of how the specifics of the contemporary human experience relate to and can be informed by insights about the human condition that have emerged across all of human history.
Bronwyn Hill
18 October - 5 November 2024Bronwyn Hill (b.1989) is a Brisbane based painter. Predominantly focusing on portrait and figurative work, Hill is recognized by her photo-real oil paintings that follow a narrative, exploring self-analysis and introspection that are often inspired by moments in solitude. Hill's use of light and shadow is a recurring feature to her work along with the contrast of high detail and soft layering techniques.
Lisa Christensen
8 - 26 November 2024Redcliffe-based artist Lisa Christensen graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), majoring in painting. Lisa has exhibited in Brisbane and the South-East Corner, and her work has been selected for various prizes including the Thiess Art Prize, Gadens Top Ten, Clayton Utz Art Award and the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize.
Lisa’s paintings have evolved out of a “love for detail, colour and form, and the desire to convey something otherworldly with humble everyday objects”.
Extending on the rich history of still-life painting, Lisa is influenced by the Dutch and Spanish still-life paintings of the 17th century, that focused on themes of mortality through the depiction of flowers, fruits and other domestic objects that stand as reminders of impermanence in this life.
Jodie Wells
29th November - 21st December 2024Jodie Wells has exhibited extensively around Australia since 2007. In that time, she has held a number of solo exhibitions and her work has been selected as a finalist in many of Australia’s top art prizes, including the Duke Prize in 2011. Jodie’s paintings are held in the Gold Coast Regional Art Gallery collection, as well as in private collections around Australia and England.
Jodie manages to capture her images in what is perceived to be minimal broad strokes of paint, spread with a palette knife. Her richly textured style combined with a dramatic colour palette creates vivid interpretations of nature
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