Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray travelled to Sydney with fellow artist Genevieve Kemarr Loy to view her painting hanging as a Finalist in the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. We’re delighted to announce she has also been named a Finalist in this year’s Hadley’s Art Prize in Hobart.
To view artworks by Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray, please see our stockroom or contact us.
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art is showing at the Australian Antique and Art Dealers Association Fair at the Malvern Town Hall open today Sunday 4 May until 4pm. Visit us at Stand #24 where we are showing a selection of Australian colonial, impressionist, modern, contemporary and Aboriginal artworks.
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Congratulations to ELIZABETH KUNOTH KNGWARRAY
Finalist in this year’s Wynne Prize for Landscape painting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Wynne Prize for Landscape Painting 2025 Art Gallery of New South Wales Entries: 758 (52 selected) Showing : 10 May – 17 August 2025
Elizabeth’s paintings are also showing at the AAADA Fair this weekend at the Malvern Town Hall. Click here for further information or contact us for complimentary entry tickets.
Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray depicts aspects of Aharlper in Utopia in the Northern Territory in this painting. The work was created at her home at Iylenty, some 360 kilometres north-east of Mparntwe/Alice Springs. As a cultural custodian, Kngwarray is concerned with transmitting stories and ceremony through her artworks, preserving and continuing her community’s rich cultural practices.
To complete this work, Kngwarray, a three-time Wynne finalist, laid her canvas flat on the ground, applying paint with bottles of varying nib sizes to produce intricate flicks of colour. These ‘flicks’ reference the yam, a native food plant and medicinal source. The yam’s low, sprawling form is evoked through the electrifying reds and blues Kngwarray has applied in varying intensities to create dynamic pools of colour that spread across the canvas. Interspersed among these bold hues are tiny flecks of white, yellow and teal. They shimmer and glint, similar to how the yam’s seeds and flowers gently move when a breeze brushes past the plant.
Click here to view Elizabeth’s work in our stockroom or please contact us for further information.
The Gallery will be closed from Thursday 17 – Monday 21 April inclusive and will also be closed Friday 25 April. We will be open on Tuesday 22 – Thursday 24 April in the afternoons only between 1pm – 5pm.
We look forward to welcoming you to view Guanting Li : Harmonies, a survey exhibition of atmospheric ink paintings on rice paper including large scale scrolls and more intimate sized artworks, created over the last decade. The artworks in the exhibition are a harmonious fusion of east and west; of the traditional and contemporary; of calligraphic black line and colour, both subtle and strong; a mix of quietness and the sublime. These strands all come together in Mr Li’s painting, in a scale of harmonies.
Preview the works and download the catalogue here.
Read the text in Chinese 和Harmonies”李冠廷的人物与山水绘画展
Guanting Li : Harmonies opening Sat 12 April and showing until the end of May – a fusion of meticulous training in traditional Chinese ink painting with the artist’s experiences of living in Australia over the past 20 years. The exhibition brings together a survey of artworks created over the last 10 years or so, from large scale scrolls to more intimate sized works depicting the grandeur of nature; people at leisure; symbolic elements, such as the lotus flower and the natural beauty found in the everyday – from plants and petals, to human connections, and animals including a koala and joey, and birds sheltering on a branch. The works evoke an atmosphere of calm and contemplation as Guanting Li expresses the joy in finds in his subject and in his skilful use of ink and brush.
Preview the exhibition on our website and download the catalogue. A video of the opening including Guanting Li speaking about his art through a translator and a special musical performance by Deng Chong Ying on guqin will be loaded to our site in due course.
Watch videos of artists Stephen Bowers and Mark Thompson as they discuss the artworks in their current exhibitions of new ceramic work. Learn about the ornithological inspirations for the birds on Stephen’s ornate plates and how Mark has several pieces on the go at once and what drives him to keep creating. Ceramics by nature includes an element that is totally out of the artist’s control, as every time a piece enters the kiln there is an unknown factor. The artist has to be patient through the process, allowing the kiln to cool enough before seeing if everything has turned out as planned.
See our website to view the videos, preview the artworks in the exhibition and download the illustrated catalogues with essays by Leslie Ferrin and John Neylon. A video of the opening with remarks by Dr Damon Moon, prolific writer on ceramics, as well as a ceramicist himself, is also available to view.
Concurrent exhibitions now showing until 7 December : Stephen Bowers – A Conference of Birds and Mark Thompson – sine qua non.
This exhibition brings together two celebrated artists from South Australia, internationally acclaimed ceramicist, Stephen Bowers and Mark Thompson, one of Australia’s leading set and costume designers in addition to being a painter and ceramic artist. Both artists showcase ornate patterning in their work and are inspired by the history of art and design within their own unique style.
Bowers also looks to creatures, here a flock of birds across a series of plates, portrayed in bright colours against complex, fragmented backgrounds inspired by designs from ceramics, engravings and textiles. These works speak to the idea of pattern-in-nature and nature-in-pattern and reflect on the tensions of humanity’s appropriation of the natural world for our own use, the fragments representing this broken relationship.
Internationally acclaimed ceramicist, Stephen Bowers presents a flock of birds across a series of plates, vividly portrayed in bright colours against complex, fragmented backgrounds inspired by designs from ceramics, engravings and textiles. This rich mash-up of visual ideas is playfully and skillfully rendered using meticulous brushstrokes that are imitative of industrial process. The ornate patterning inspired by the history of art and design, speaks to the idea of pattern-in-nature and nature-in-pattern and reflect on the tensions of humanity’s appropriation of the natural world for our own use, the fragments representing this broken relationship.
Mark Thompson, one of Australia’s leading set and costume designers in addition to being a painter and ceramic artist, showcases ornate patterning in his work, inspired by the history of art and design within his own unique style. In this current exhibition, Thompson utilises the sculptural form of the bust for many of his fantastical works, with decorative elements and characteristic theatrical flourish. Another reference is the tradition of ceramic creatures, including the wonderful Juggling Pug with links to the Order of the Pug, established in Bavaria around 1740 with resulting porcelain commissions of that time.
Preview the exhibitions and download the illustrated catalogues with essays by Leslie Ferrin, Director Ferrin Contemporary, USA and John Neylon, Australian arts writer.
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art is participating at the AAADA Sydney Fair at Paddington Town Hall 7 – 10 November. The Gallery will be staffed during this time for visitors to the Stephen Bowers and Mark Thompson exhibitions, although you may wish to ring to confirm your visit time 03 9509 9855.
Robert Clinch is one of many artists included in the current exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar, opening tomorrow Sat 12 October and showing until 2 February 2025.
Robert Clinch’s lithograph Arpeggio is characteristic of his work with his detailed and meticulous rendering of an ‘urban capriccio’.
Clinch’s striking imagery transports the viewer to a fictional but hauntingly real world; telling accessible tales of loneliness, joy, injustice, humour, melancholy and whimsy. Clinch paints entirely from drawings, executed plein-air, often at numerous locations and then adapted for composition in the studio. The same fastidious approach is devoted to his beautifully hand-drawn limited-edition lithographs.
Browse Robert’s work on our site here
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