BMG Art - Contemporary & Modern Australian Art

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Carlos Barrios

Painting | Ceramics

Friday 29 November - Saturday 21 December 2024

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Exhibitions

Now showing

Carlos Barrios

Painting | Ceramics

Friday 29 November - Saturday 21 December 2024

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Patrick Dagg
Basil Papoutsidis

Painting | Collage | Sculpture

Friday 1 November - Saturday 23 November 2024

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Colin Pennock
Jeff Mincham

Painting | Ceramics

Friday 4 October - Saturday 26 October 2024

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Godwin Bradbeer

Drawing | Works on paper

Friday 6 September - Saturday 28 September 2024

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Nicholas Uhlmann
John Coburn (1925 – 2006)
William Ferguson

Sculpture | Screenprints | Painting

Friday 9 August - Saturday 31 August 2024

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Andrew Baines
Mark Judd

Painting | Bronze sculpture

Friday 12 July - Saturday 3 August 2024

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Nick Dridan
Peter Syndicas

Painting | Bronze | Sculpture

Friday 14 June - Saturday 6 July 2024

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Lisa Tomasetti
Dana Kinter
Georgina Mills

Photography | Mixed media painting | Classical figurative sculpture

Friday 17 May - Saturday 8 June 2024

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Marijana Tadic

Bioluminescence : A 20 Year Sculpture Survey Exhibition + Book Launch 'Art Made Public'

Friday 19 April - Saturday 11 May 2024

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Barbara Chalk

Mixed media drawings

Friday 22 March - Saturday 13 April 2024

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Past exhibitions

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Future Exhibitions

Upcoming

Philip Cam
Joanna Poulson
Erin Renfrey & Mia Behrens

Friday 31 January - Saturday 15 February 2025

Upcoming

Mark Thompson
Stephen Bowers

Porcelain | Painting

Friday 21 February - Saturday 15 March 2025

Artists

Phillip McGillivray-Tory

The Australian landscape is what inspires my work – the colours, the flora, the natural / man made divisions of country. The divisions being fence-lines or song-lines, indigenous ...

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Scott Hicks

I’ve always enjoyed black and white imagery – from my pre-teen fascination with brass rubbing in English churches, and experimentation with lino cuts, through to my obsession with ...

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Geoff Harvey

‘ I have been a professional artist for almost five decades and have held over 50 solo shows. I create paintings, drawings, prints, assemblage and sculpture. My work ...

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Basil Papoutsidis

Basil Papoutsidis is a practising, Melbourne-based artist who previously completed a BFA (Visual Art) at the University of Melbourne (VCA) in 2014. Through a fanaticism with material behaviour, ...

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Steve Cox

‘ I am interested in the darker side of the human experience. My subject matter has dealt with infamous murder cases; fictional figures from literature; and psychological stream ...

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Wendy Stokes

Wendy Stokes has been exhibiting with the gallery since the mid 1980s and her practice continues to remain consistently committed to the tenets of gestural Abstraction, while sensitively ...

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Nick Dridan

Nick Dridan creates paintings based on his surrounding environment, on a farm in Central Victoria. He seeks to distill the shapes, lines, colours and other elements into something ...

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Grant Parke

My name is Grant Parke. I’m a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, photography, sculpture, animation and found objects. The recurring themes appear to be about beauty in the ...

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Carlos Barrios

Since I was a child I have had a deep interest in objects, symbols and other visual forms. I am fascinated by how energy and belief can transform ...

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Katrina Pennock

Katrina Pennock is a painter based in the hinterland of Southern Queensland in Australia. She holds a BA in Visual and Performing Arts from the Victorian College of ...

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Margie Sheppard

Painter and printmaker Margie Sheppard has lived and worked in the Adelaide Hills for over 35 years. Having spent many years working exclusively as a printmaker, she has ...

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Nona Burden

‘My work reflects an interest in ambiguities surrounding light, space and form. Beneath the surface of the image is something more to be seen, or discovered, providing an ...

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Colin Pennock

Colin Pennock is a mid career artist who paints abstract landscapes from his home in the Noosa Hinterland, Queensland. He has exhibited widely in solo and group shows ...

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Karen Genoff

Over the past 12 years, Karen Genoff’s solo exhibition work has bravely and cleverly engaged the public in her own personal narrative of ‘home and hearth’, celebrating and ...

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William Ferguson

William Ferguson was born in Melbourne, Australia on 4 January 1932. From 1953 – 1981 Ferguson taught art. He was part of the first generation of artists who ...

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Sue Ninham

Sue Ninham is an artist, designer, maker and teacher based in Adelaide, Australia. With 20 years’ studio and exhibiting experience, her multi-disciplinary practice employs the use of a ...

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Datsun Tran

Datsun Tran is an Australian multidisciplinary artist. His work primarily features the natural world, though it is about us, the human story. His work has explored themes of ...

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Felicia Aroney

For me, art is a vessel through which I can communicate with any audience. As a contemporary artist, my mark-making process aims not to create a universal experience ...

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Susan Crookes

‘The art that influences and interests me most, perhaps partly due to my background in printmaking is simple, honest and direct – outsider, folk and naive art, cartoons ...

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Joanna Poulson

Joanna Poulson is a Tarntanya / Adelaide-based visual artist. Working in the tonal realist tradition, her oil paintings of the garden and flowering plants explore the beauty and ...

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Erin Renfrey

Erin is an emerging artist based on Kaurna land, who began her Bachelor of Creative Arts at Flinders University and AC Arts in 2020, graduating in 2023. That ...

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Sheila Whittam

‘Playing has taken me back to basics; starting at the very beginning, letting go of some of the prescribed rules, yielding and letting the work embody the artist’s ...

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Madeleine Collopy

With a background in dance and a strong interest in contemporary choreography, Madeleine Collopy’s work is inspired by movement and the body, with a particular focus on its ...

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Frank Bauer

Designer and metalworker, Frank Bauer is renowned for his innovative design work ranging from jewellery and spectacles to low-voltage lighting systems, columns and mobile wind-sculptures. Bauer’s sculptural lighting ...

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Lindsay Nicholson

‘Still life painting involves, for me, finding an object with a form, a line, a colour that makes me want to get out a brush and interpret it, ...

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Peter Syndicas

Peter Syndicas is sculptor living and working in South Australia. In 1997, his figurative twig journey began. The artist said, ‘I search specifically for twigs that portray a ...

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Roger Myles

‘The crux of my painting is the layering and reworking of surfaces which invite visual exploration to reveal the merging of the conceptual with the formative. Surfaces undone, ...

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John Coburn (1925 – 2006)

John Coburn AM was one of Australia’s most important abstract artists of the second half of the 20th Century. Coburn was born in Ingham, Queensland. He was an ...

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Philip Cam

Philip Cam is a philosopher and author who has returned to Adelaide and to art after half a lifetime away. Trained at the South Australian School of Art, ...

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Monika Morgenstern

Monika Morgenstern was born near Cologne in Germany and currently lives and works in Strathalbyn, South Australia on Ngarrindjeri land. Her artwork is based on phenomenological research she conducts ...

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Todd Hunter

‘Strictly speaking, I’m neither a figurative nor an abstract painter and I find the space between figurative and non-figurative art an exhilarating place to work. I’m drawn to ...

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Margaret Ambridge

Margaret Ambridge combines the power of drawing with a passionate interest in humanity and arts, using the capacity of art to influence and connect with individuals. Winner of ...

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Augustine Dall'Ava

Augustine Dall’Ava (Gus) is a Melbourne based sculptor who has been working and exhibiting in Australia for 50 years. Nature plays an integral role in the creation of the ...

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Inge King

Inge King commands a distinguished place in Australian art. As one of our most significant sculptors, her work can be seen in many civic spaces, inviting interaction with ...

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Don Rankin

Forget about the persistence of memory – Don Rankin believes in the persistence of painting as a vehicle for encouraging the viewer to see everyday things anew. His ...

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Mark Thompson

‘Working as a designer in theatre and opera forces one to examine more than history or style. All of the creative platforms are at work. This vast array ...

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Peter Baka

Peter Baka was born in Adelaide, 1957; a self-taught artist exhibiting in galleries since 1982. Peter’s diverse interests are evident from one exhibition to another, utilising materials, resources, ...

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Nick Mount

Nick Mount is one of Australia’s most accomplished and celebrated studio glass artists, creating sculptural assemblages that range in scale and character. His glass works offer ‘limitless potential’ ...

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Leigh Warren

Leigh Warren is a self-taught artist and internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer. He is also acknowledged for his work as an artistic director and producer of opera, theatre ...

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Trevor McNamara

Trevor McNamara is an Adelaide based contemporary artist working in acrylic and mixed media. ‘I design my work to move and change with light, so it can adapt ...

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Chris Ingham

Sculptor and printmaker Chris Ingham was born in Adelaide. He is currently living and working in Melbourne, where he divides his time between his art practice and part-time ...

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Stephen Bowers

‘I make a type of pottery widely known as ‘earthenware’ with decoration covered by a clear glaze. This glaze, like the glaze often found on traditional Staffordshire and ...

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Steve Brown

In the eighties I took an extended break from work to study Buddhism and meditation in Asia, staying in monasteries and ashrams in Thailand, Nepal and India.  When ...

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Nicholas Uhlmann

Nicholas Uhlmann is a mid-career sculptor living and working in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. He uses the medium of sculpture to explore transformation, transitions, growth and the ...

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Christopher Orchard

‘Christopher Orchard is an extraordinary talent in that he combines uncommon vision and skill to create art that captures the zeitgeist of our time while maintaining the highest ...

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Geoffrey Ricardo

‘The thematic basis of much of my work is commentary on myself and or humankind; you could say, the human condition. I am often trying to reflect a ...

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Nate Finch

‘My work explores relationships that develop between mark intensities, colour harmonies and surface textures. Things that can’t be explained in words, or responses to living, are translated into ...

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Geoff Mitchell

Geoff Mitchell’s work is a meditation on beauty, history, myth and the unconscious in which he creates fragmentary narratives in dream-like landscapes. These works are his ‘Istoriato’, drawing ...

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Georgina Mills

Georgina Mills is a classically trained South Australian figurative sculptor who primarily works from life, generally the nude, interpreting her concepts in clay. This translation is then cast ...

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Jason Cordero

Jason Cordero is an Adelaide based artist with a strong interest in concepts of possession, perception and belonging. His practice is focused on painting and drawing with an ...

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Mia Behrens

My oil-painted portraits and still-lives represent my experience of objectification under the male gaze, and the enforced mentality that my value as a woman is driven by my ...

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Bruce Nuske

The universally recognised and continuously reinvented Teapot is the spouted icon and Prima Donna of the ritual of tea. It is the cross dressing engine of hospitality, spanning ...

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Dana Kinter

Dana Kinter is an artist living and making on Kaurna land, South Australia. Drawing from the natural environment surrounding her home / studio nestled alongside the Aldinga Scrub ...

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Patrick Dagg

Patrick Dagg’s work looks at systems and hierarchies that exist around us, particularly in regard to the notions of value and taste. Drawing on found materials, graffiti and ...

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Sum Woon Chow

‘I am a visual artist / painter based in Adelaide. Born in Singapore, I have lived most of my adult life in Australia. A draftsman in a previous ...

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Rosemary Warmington

Rosemary Warmington paints semi-abstract landscapes and more recently, pure abstraction. Her contemporary paintings are drenched in colour, influenced by the natural world and the Australian light and landscape, ...

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Julian Smith

Julian is a contemporary artist specialising in acrylic, gouache and watercolour. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia and has studied fine arts, graphic design, illustration design at ...

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Simon Lownsborough

Simon is an Adelaide based artist who has worked in the arts for over 30 years. With an interest in the human condition, Simon works with metal and ...

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Lisa Tomasetti

Lisa Tomasetti is a Sydney-based photographer. She has exhibited extensively throughout Australia as well as holding solo shows in London, Barcelona and Shanghai. Her work is held in ...

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Paul Lacey

‘What I love to do is create playful, colourful characters and creatures and place them in a landscape that mirrors the socio-political zeitgeist, using traditional oil painting techniques.’ ...

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Sharifah Sorayya

Sharifah Sorayya is a Malaysian-born interdisciplinary artist based on Kaurna land by way of England, Saudi Arabia, and Canada. She is heavily influenced by her familial and personal ...

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Godwin Bradbeer

‘I am committed to the human figure – that is where my loyalty lies’. Godwin Bradbeer, artist, 1999. Godwin Bradbeer’s concern for the body is not for its ...

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Mark Judd

Mark Judd is a South Australian multidisciplinary artist using traditional materials and techniques in painting and sculpture. His subject material is heavily influenced by his life long experiences ...

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Marijana Tadic

Through her work, Marijana Tadic makes sense of the world we live in. Similarities and differences between European and Australian appreciation of light and natural environment play a ...

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Murray Prichard

Abstraction, or non-objective and spontaneity, are essential to my way of working. This is in defiance of my illustrative, graphic design days years ago. My work has always ...

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Fiona Halse

‘My work seeks to convey a human presence and visceral essence. I am not interested in replicating objects; instead I seek to assemble visceral abstract forms that have ...

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Jeff Mincham

Jeff Mincham is one of Australia’s most prominent and influential ceramic artists. His exceptional craft skills and deep knowledge of the materials and technology of ceramics are demonstrated ...

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Alison Main

My work flows from the unexpectedness of life. Each day is often completely different from what’s planned. Interesting or demanding projects can sideline your attention. A chance moment ...

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Mike Barr

Mike Barr was born in the UK and came to Australia in 1970. He is a South Australian based artist who believes paintings should be felt as well ...

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Barbara Hanrahan

Barbara Hanrahan (1939-1991) was an Adelaide-born artist, printmaker and writer. Characterised by playfully complex narratives that draw on personal experience and fantasy, woven with witty commentary on twentieth ...

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Andrew Baines

‘True escapism is considered unhealthy and the ultimate destruction of one’s self. Art is my escapism. I am the figure in the sometimes over populated landscape or the ...

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Rod Taylor

Rod Taylor AM is a retired Associate Professor of Flinders University and retired CEO and Director of Adelaide Central School of Art Incorporated, which he co-founded with his ...

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Barbara Chalk

Barbara Chalk is a visual artist, illustrator and designer based in Adelaide. She works in a variety of mediums; everything from pen and ink, graphite and coloured pencil, ...

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Kate Nielsen

Kate Nielsen is an award-winning artist living and working in Sydney. She is represented by Nanda Hobbs Gallery Chippendale, Colville Gallery Hobart and internationally by Maybaum Gallery, San ...

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Stephen Glassborow

Stephen Glassborow is a sculptor who makes the classical medium of bronze accessible to a contemporary audience. He uses whimsy, abstraction and colour to bring a unique and ...

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