BMG Art - Contemporary & Modern Australian Art

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Geoff Mitchell
Datsun Tran

Friday 17 June - Saturday 9 July 2022

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Exhibitions

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Geoff Mitchell
Datsun Tran

Friday 17 June - Saturday 9 July 2022

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Peter Syndicas
Rod Taylor

Sculpture | Digital prints

Friday 20 May - Saturday 11 June 2022

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Nicholas Uhlmann
Jason Cordero

Friday 22 April - Saturday 14 May 2022

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Lindsay Nicholson
Barbara Chalk
Madeleine Collopy

Group Show of 3 Female Artists

Friday 25 March - Saturday 16 April 2022

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Christopher Orchard
Basil Papoutsidis

Friday 25 February - Saturday 19 March 2022

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Susan Crookes
Paul Lacey

Friday 4 February - Saturday 19 February 2022

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Mark Thompson

Sideshow Alice

Friday 19 November - Friday 17 December 2021

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Scott Hicks - Stolen Moments

Black & white photography

Friday 22 October - Saturday 13 November 2021

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Fiona Halse
Monika Morgenstern

Friday 24 September - Saturday 16 October 2021

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The Line # 3

A group exhibition of black & white drawings and works on paper

Friday 27 August - Saturday 18 September 2021

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Future Exhibitions

Upcoming

Andrew Baines

The Search for Sanity

Friday 15 July - Saturday 6 August 2022

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Nick Mount

Nick Mount @ 70

Friday 12 August - Saturday 3 September 2022

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On a Wing and a Prayer

Group Show featuring Geoffrey Ricardo, Steve Cox, Geoff Harvey, Peter Baka & Grant Parke

Friday 9 September - Saturday 1 October 2022

Upcoming

Roger Myles
Augustine Dall'Ava
Sue Ninham

Friday 7 October - Saturday 29 October 2022

Upcoming

Todd Hunter

Friday 4 November - Saturday 26 November 2022

Artists

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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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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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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Peter Syndicas

‘I search specifically for twigs that portray a human figure as it gives each sculpture of mine a unique duality. On the one hand they are magnified reproductions ...

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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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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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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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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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Grant Parke

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nicholas Uhlmann

South Australian sculptor Nicholas Uhlmann has developed a distinctive method of wrapping a steel armature in layers of thin metallic strips. He has refined this organic constructivist technique ...

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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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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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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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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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Basil Papoutsidis

Through a fanaticism with material behaviour, Basil Papoutsidis explores the sculptural contexts of formalist abstraction. With each work, Papoutsidis revises sculptural traditions from the vantage point of vehicular forms; constructed from ...

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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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Lisa Tomasetti

Lisa Tomasetti is a visual artist and stills photographer who has exhibited in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney as well as internationally in London and Shanghai. With the advent ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Michael Carney

Michael Carney is a Master of Fine Arts graduate from the University of South Australia. His work is most often in the form of paintings and ceramics, exploring ...

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