Nicholas Thompson Gallery

Nicholas Thompson Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Melbourne / Naarm established in 2015.

Nicholas Thompson Gallery

155 Langridge Street, Collingwood VIC, Australia

03 9415 7882

nicholasthompsongallery.com.au

Wednesday to Saturday 12noon–5pm

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Leyla Stevens responds to archival displacement

Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.

Jennifer Yang

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The ceramics of the Central Desert

Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Review

About Face mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.

Jane O'Sullivan

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A compact but rewarding monograph that delves inside Natalya Hughes’s layered practice

Natalya Hughes has a conflicted fascination with modernist men like Freud, Kirchner and de Kooning. Jane O’Sullivan takes a look at The Interior, the Institute of Modern Art monograph on her recent practice, and discovers difficult and provocative questions about not just the representation of women in art and culture, but also the careers of women artists in Australia.

Jane O'Sullivan

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Self reflections with Jack Ball

In his latest exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Jack Ball challenges the extractive history of the archive while searching for shapes that can articulate the complexity of trans life.

Josephine Mead

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Angelica Mesiti’s The Rites of When finally makes sense of the Art Gallery of NSW’s Tank. It is worth the plane flight.

In The Rites of When, Angelica Mesiti considers the rituals that may mark the seasons in our burning planet. The Tank has been waiting for art like this.

Nicholas Thompson Gallery

Nicholas Thompson Gallery

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