Rich Allen is a graduate from the Central (now Central St Martins) School of Art, in London. Following migration to Brisbane in 1982, Rich practiced as a graphic designer, and corporate identity specialist (a service he defines as ‘differentiation by design’), returning to his fine art on a full-time basis, in late 2009. His upcoming exhibition, In Pursuit of Mastery, opens at Red Hill Gallery this Saturday 7 March. Working with the single-minded theme of INTIMISM (capturing

There is an unquestionable authenticity that comes across in Kate Barry's artworks, drawing in the viewer in an almost primal way. Her stunning compositions are alive with dynamic colour and texture and convey free, spontaneous and emotional expression. The works in Kate's latest solo exhibition SOURCE are a reference to the source of inspiration, or the source of Kate’s emotional expression, and emphasises the unstudied and intuitive application of paint. Dynamic compositio

For 2019’s final showcase iteration, Side Gallery presents a satellite group exhibition, CONVERGE. The exhibition explores the relationships between street art and conventional fine art, which has developed to include digital drawing, sculpture, mark-making, illustration, and painting. Representing the vibrant and diverse creative community of Brisbane, the works selected for CONVERGE are by a selection of multidisciplinary artists, and include some of Stella's painting and s

Tonight is the opening night of my exhibition Into the Fold. For 3 decades I've been known for my work as an illustrator and designer but in recent years I've taken a detour. My current art practice explores the pictorial language of geometric abstraction, with a primary focus on non-objective colour structures and Into the Fold is my most recent investigation into the folded form as a vehicle for colour. As part of the exhibition there are paintings as well as aluminium, pa

Last year we were contacted by QUT Art Museum to digitise three of William Robinson‘s incredible landscape paintings for The Cube's project Nature Imagined. The idea behind the project was that visitors could interact with each artwork, zooming in deeply to see the highly intricate detail and technique in each of Robinson's works. The files we produced were so large The Cube had to write special software that enabled them to display the images and also allow the data in these

Jan Murphy Gallery in conjunction with Sophie Gannon Gallery are presenting new works by the very talented Monica Rohan at Sydney Contemporary, Australasia's major International art fair, which opens tomorrow and runs through until Saturday. We were graced with the presence of Monica's amazing paintings at our studio for photography and framing before they headed off to Sydney for this major art event. Sydney Contemporary's fifth edition will celebrate the vibrancy and divers

Brisbane artist Kate Barry’s painting process is entirely physical; always standing, crouching and circling around her works. The energetic act of painting itself emerges as both spontaneous and confident. Kate's raw style means an unquestionable authenticity comes across in her artworks, drawing the viewer to connect in an almost primal way. We get to connect to Kate's bold and immersive paintings at her latest exhibition, Brood & Bloom, that opens this Friday night at The T

We've had quite a number of beautiful paintings by the much-loved Australian artist Margaret Olley in the studio in recent months. And that's hardly surprising as there's been a lot of Olley loving going on around town. Running until 13 October is the exhibition Margaret Olley: A Generous Life at QAGOMA. And coinciding with the opening days of that major exhibition was another wonderful collection of her works in an exhibition at Philip Bacon Galleries, also here in Brisbane.

It's the final days of John Honeywill's latest exhibition at Philip Bacon Galleries and it was no surprise to hear that it is a sell out show. We had the pleasure of photographing this talented Brisbane artist's works for the exhibition catalogue, getting a sneak peak of his amazing still lives. John's exhibition runs until this Saturday 17 August. “I paint the quiet visual conversations between everyday objects; paintings that explore presence and stillness in the genre of t