Lloyd Rees 🇦🇺 (b. 17.3.1895)

'Rounded Hill (Bathurst)'
Pencil and watercolour on paper
40.9 x 50.5 cm

'The Road to Berry' (1947)
Oil on canvas on paperboard
34.6 x 42.2 cm

'The Harbour from McMahon's Point' (1950)
Oil on canvas
77.2 x 99.7 cm
#WynnePrize winner

All at Art Gallery of NSW

Visit to Ngununggula - Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, beautifully set in generous repurposed rural buildings.
Fine series of gallery rooms in old building, new open timber entry, cafe also an adaptation, creating a courtyard. Designed by #tzgarchitects
Inside the #wynneprize exhibition…1/2

Elioth Gruner 🇦🇺 (b. 16.12.1882)

'On the Murrumbidgee' (1929)
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 123.2 cm

'Weetangera, Canberra' aka 'Murrumbidgee at Weetangera' (1937)
Oil on canvas
63.8 x 76.5 cm

Both won the Art Gallery of NSW #WynnePrize for landscapes and are now in their collection.

a collage of paintings

a collage of sculptures

a collage of photos of a sculpture

a collage of sculptures

#Sydney #AGNSW #WynnePrize The “best landscape painting [or] figure sculpture”… this year there were many impressive sculptures. Winner AND my choice: Jude Rae ‘Pre-dawn sky over Port Botany container terminal’. 2/2

a collage of paintings

a collage of paintings

a collage of paintings

a collage of paintings

#Sydney #AGNSW #WynnePrize The strange combination “best landscape painting [or] figure sculpture” usually produces great landscapes and a couple of laughable sculptures; the greater recognition of Indigenous paintings in the last decade has revolutionised the prize … 1/2

Maralinga. synthetic polymer paint, PVC glue and inkjet on found silver platter. The mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion, seen against a blue sky, emanates from ochre and black Country. The image is surrounded by the edges of a silver platter with handles

The bomb comes down and makes a big mess. It melts the sand, shakes the earth, poisons the ground. They bury it but it is still there – in the dust, in the water, in our memory. The story goes on, that’s why I keep talking about it, so we can always remember
-Harriette Bryant
#WynnePrize #Maralinga

“You work your whole career imagining this might happen one day,” says Julie Fragar, winner of the Archibald Prize 2025.

Read more: vist.ly/3n3vfkd

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