Congratulations Locust Jones

Our congratulations to Locust Jones on winning the Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award 2010.

His winning work, Lozenge of Dawn, will be exhibited at the Waikato Museum, New Zealand with the 32 other finalists until January next year.

Melbourne Art Fair: Wrap up

We are just about recovered from the 2010 Melbourne Art Fair...Thank you to our artists and all who attended the Karen Woodbury Gallery stand making it such a success for the gallery!

If you missed out head to our website for images.

Kate Rohde / RWB: Urban Outfitters Blog

Urban Outfitters have blogged about the upcoming Kate Rohde and Romance Was Born exhibition.

Check it out here.

Melbourne Art Fair

Karen Woodbury Gallery is excited to give you a sneak peek of our Melbourne Art Fair stand.

Be sure to pop by and say hello, stand F27 (downstairs).

We look forward to seeing you there!

BSG Photographic Prize Winners

You may recall we blogged here about Karen judging the Brunswick Street Gallery, Picture This Photographic Prize. We thought we would show you the winning and runner up works...

The winner of the $10,000 prize was Sean O'Carroll, with the work (left), Untitled 1 (From the Series Boys, Guns, Etc?)

The runner up prize went to Narelle Conwell for (left), One is to One Point One Six Eight 1&II

Our congratulations to Sean, Narelle and all of the highly commended works (you can check them out here).

Robert Boynes

Robert Boynes has an exhibition of new works on show at Brenda May Gallery.

The exhibition opens today and is current until August 29.

Michael Doolan: Supermaker

We blogged about Michael Doolan's Supermaker project (with Craft Victoria) last week. Well the work has now been installed in the Atrium at Federation Square and it looks amazing!

The installation is current until August 25.

Here is sneak peek...

Magda Matwiejew on Artabase

Artabase have posted a review on Magda's exhibition...read it here.

eX de Medici and Ros Atkins

eX de Medici and Ros Atkins have been working on a collaborative project at the Art Vault, Mildura.

Here is a sneak peak at the etchings in their first state. These were produced during a two week residency at Art Vault in early July. The artists have since been working on each others plates and will edition the finished plates back at Art Vault in early January 2011 (each print will be an edition of 20).

We look forward to the finished works!



Produced in Residency at the Art Vault, Mildura.
Ros Atkins is represented by Australian Galleries.

Magda Matwiejew: The Age

See the article Labouring the Pointe, written by Annie Stevens for The Age which takes a look at Magda's practice and new exhibition, Pretty Ballerina on now at Karen Woodbury Gallery.

Exhibition current until August 21.

Drinks with the artist this afternoon, from 3pm.

Melbourne Art Fair

From August 4-8, Karen Woodbury Gallery will be at Melbourne Art Fair. We are excited to be showcasing some fabulous new works by:

Del Kathryn Barton
Michael Doolan
Marie Hagerty
Sam Jinks
eX de Medici
Lara Merrett
Derek O'Connor
John Pule
Lisa Roet
Aida Tomescu
Philip Wolfhagen

Be sure to stop by and say hello!

Stand F27 (downstairs)

Kate Rohde and Romance was Born exhibition

You may recall we blogged a little while ago about Kate Rohde's collaboration with fashion label Romance Was Born for RAFW 2010.

We are excited to announce an exhibition of these collaborative works in the gallery from 25 August - September 18. Save the date - the show promises to be a celebration of colour and the spectacular!

New exhibition: Magda Matwiejew

Magda Matwiejew's new exhibition En Pointe has opened today at Karen Woodbury Gallery.

Join us for drinks with the artist this Saturday, July 31 from 3-5pm.

The exhibition is current until August 21.

Michael Doolan: Supermaker

Michael Doolan has been commissioned by Craft Victoria as part of the Craft Cubed festival as their inaugural Super Maker.

Super Maker is a large-scale, public art commission created by an established craft practitioner. Michael Doolan will present Once Upon a Time, a large scale, inflatable sculpture suspended above the viewer in Federation Square’s Atrium. It will be Melbourne’s most ambitious public craft commission to date.

Supermaker: Michael Doolan, Once Upon a Time has been curated by Joe Pascoe. The installation will be on display in the Fed Square Atrium from 26 July until 25 August. It will be special so don't miss it!

Keep an eye out for installation images of the work coming soon...

Aida Tomescu joins Karen Woodbury Gallery

Karen Woodbury Gallery is very pleased to announce we now represent Aida Tomescu in Melbourne.

We will be showing new works by Aida at the Melbourne Art Fair (4-8 August) followed by a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper at Karen Woodbury Gallery from 20 October - 13 November.

If you would like any information regarding available works, email us at info@kwgallery.com .

Karen Woodbury to judge Photographic prize

Karen will be judging the Picture This Open Photographic Prize at Brunswick Street Gallery this evening.

The winner will be announced at 7:15pm and will take home a $10,000 prize.

For more details check out the BSG website.

We have a winner!

Thank you to all of you for your enthusiastic response to our giveaway of 2 Melbourne Art Fair passes. Using Random.org we have randomly picked a winner (drum roll...), and the winner of the 2 Melbourne Art Fair Passes is:

Hari Ho

(We will be in contact by email to arrange delivery of your prize.)

Your response has been overwhelming! We look forward to keeping you up to speed with all the exciting news about Karen Woodbury Gallery and our amazing stable of artists.

Stay tuned for another giveaway a little closer to Art Fair...

Curious Colony - Philip Wolfhagen

We have images of the work by Philip Wolfagen from Curious Colony: A twenty first century Wunderkammer.

Philip Wolfhagen made three oil paintings on red cedar panels in response to convict painter Joseph Lycett’s panels on the Macquarie chest.

Curious Colony - Kate Rohde

We have an image of the exquisite work by Kate Rohde from Curious Colony: A twenty first century Wunderkammer.

Locust Jones - Hill End residency 2011

Locust Jones will be artist in residence at Hill End - Haefligers cottage from 1 March - 31 March 2011.

We look forward to seeing the resulting works from his time there!