Paintings 2019
Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present Paintings 2019, a exhibition of new paintings by Victoria Reichelt and Natasha Bieniek.
While Victoria Reichelt and Natasha Bieniek take very different approaches, their paintings invoke a compelling urgency in the relationship between people and the environment.
Victoria Reichelt was awarded the Sulman Prize in 2013, and is a recent finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Award 2019, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2019 and Still: National Still Life Award 2, also 2019. Her work is represented in the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Deakin University, Artbank, Tweed Regional Gallery and Gold Coast City Art Gallery.
Natasha Bieniek is best known as a miniature painter. In 2015, Bieniek won the Wynne Prize and the Portia Geach Memorial Award. Most recently her 2019 Wynne Prize painting, Reflection (2019) was highly commended. She is a six times Archibald Prize finalist and was highly commended in 2016 for her portrait of Wendy Whiteley. In 2012 Bieniek won the Metro Art Award, Melbourne. Her work is in the collections of the Gippsland Art Gallery, Tweed Regional Art Gallery and Warnnambool Art Gallery.
Image credit:
Victoria Reichelt, Australian Landscape (clouds) 2019, oil on linen 91.0 x 130.0 cm (detail)