Our good friend John Barkes talking about his recent collection of Ukranian artists. Refer You tube
John Barkes & Ukrainian Painters
Sunday October 1, 2023 - Friday October 20, 2023
News
Nick Botting painting "The Queue"
Tuesday July 11, 2023
Nick Botting is always there to catch the heartbeat of London and predictably, as caught by CNN, he was painting the queue on the Lambeth Bridge waiting to file past the Queen's coffin while she lay in state.
Vale Barry Humphries
Sunday April 23, 2023
We are very sad to hear the brilliant, colourful, stylish, and much loved Barry Humphries has died.
Barry was a regular visitor and client of the Bridget McDonnell Gallery and first visited 30 years ago. He was a terrific artist and we have been preparing his collection of drawings, Barry...
Vale Josephine Bayliss 15 May 1936 - 4 Dec 2022
Tuesday February 7, 2023
The artist and textile designer Josephine Bayliss was known in the London theatre world as Cameron Mackintosh's favourite costume painter on major productions such as 'Cats' and 'Phantom of the Opera'. She was married to Clifford Bayliss, the legendary 1930s Melbourne art student who disappeared into wartime London, never to...
read more about Vale Josephine Bayliss 15 May 1936 - 4 Dec 2022
Spowers & Syme Exhibition
Thursday June 23, 2022
I viewed this exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery a few months back and have been meaning to send a post ever since! It is a terrific exhibition, well worth the effort to see, especially now that it is coming to the Geelong Art Gallery. No idea why it wasn't...
Notre Dame Cathedral - Three Years after the Fire
Friday April 15, 2022
Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris is the official charity leading the international fundraising efforts to rebuild and restore Notre-Dame Cathedral after the April 15, 2019 fire. Following painstaking work by an army of engineers, carpenters, abseilers, scaffolders etc to stabilize the building, interior restoration is now poised to begin. Read about the restoration...
read more about Notre Dame Cathedral - Three Years after the Fire
The Melbourne Fair 2022
Thursday March 24, 2022 - Sunday March 27, 2022
The Bridget McDonnell Gallery will be exhibiting at the Melbourne Fair (located at Caulfield Racecourse). If you would like a free pass to the opening day on the 24th of March, please contact the gallery.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Vale Peter Brown 1943-2022
Thursday January 13, 2022
We are very sorry to inform you that Peter died on Thursday 13th January after a short illness.
It came as a real shock since it was just two months ago that we opened his exhibition of photographs Off the Beaten Track. and on the 4th December he had even hiked to...
Travels Around France II, Pont des Arts
Thursday December 9, 2021
Built in the early 1800s, the Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a metal foot bridge which crosses the Seine. On one side is the central square of the Palais De Louvre and on the other is the Institute de France which defines itself as the “…protector of...
Travels Around France 1, Pont St Marie (1956)
Wednesday November 24, 2021
Within the archives of the Bridget McDonnell Gallery are a small group of painted sketches from Nada Hunter’s time in Paris in the 1950s. These paintings are not the florals that we typically identify with Nada’s work but are small sketches of parks, buildings, bridges and public places in Paris...
read more about Travels Around France 1, Pont St Marie (1956)
Congratulations Peter Wegner
Thursday October 7, 2021
"In the centenary year of the Archibald, a portrait by Peter Wegner of 100-year-old artist Guy Warren (himself an Archibald winner in 1985) took out the prize...." Archibald Prize 2021 AGNSW
Christo, Arc de Triomphe 1962/2021
Friday September 17, 2021
"Wrapped Arc de Triomphe Is Christo’s Fleeting Gift to Paris
Planned by the conceptual artist 60 years ago, the posthumous work transforms a great monument with a glistening cloak. It feels like a liberating moment for the city...
PARIS — For almost 60 years, the artist known as Christo dreamed...
Iso Rae 1860-1940
Thursday May 27, 2021
Making breakfast the other morning I was delighted to hear this discussion about Iso Rae ABC: The Art Show with Daniel Browning; Finding Australia's lost impressionist, and the beauty in gumnuts.
Iso Rae is an artist I started researching 40 years ago, read here an article that was published in Antiques and...
A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Original drawings and paintings by the artists of The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia will be on show at the National Library in A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas, open from Friday 12 March to Sunday 11 July 2021 (included in this exhibition are works by AH Fullwood - see his page on...
read more about A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas
The Sydney Fair
Thursday May 13, 2021
The Bridget McDonnell Gallery will again be exhibiting at The Sydney Fair. We hope to see you there at stall 8. "The Sydney Fair (Thursday 13th May – Sunday 16th May 2021) welcomes over 50 of Australia’s most outstanding dealers who will be exhibiting Furniture, Decorative Arts, Jewellery, Art, Prints and...
Picturing a Nation: The Art and Life of AH Fullwood
Wednesday April 28, 2021 6:00 PM
To compliment our exhibition Early Australian Watercolours and Drawings, Gary Werskey, author of Picturing a Nation: The Art and Life of AH Fullwood, will be in the gallery for an artist talk and book signing on the 28th of April at 6pm. Signed copies will be available for $45. Contact...
read more about Picturing a Nation: The Art and Life of AH Fullwood
The art and life of A.H. Fullwood on Late Night Live - RN
Wednesday March 24, 2021 10:30 PM
A.H. Fullwood was the most viewed British-Australian artist of the late 1800s and early 1900s. His artist contemporaries and friends were Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts. Yet Fullwood is little remembered now. A new biography seeks to bring him and his work back to life.
Guest: Gary Werskey, biographer and cultural historian...
read more about The art and life of A.H. Fullwood on Late Night Live - RN
Vale Charlotte Boyd 1968-2021
Sunday February 28, 2021
We were very sad to hear of Charlotte Boyd's death in February of this year.
Charlotte had been exhibiting with us since first visiting Caroline in our Hampton Gallery in 2008. Her gentle nature and ability to express life's joyful moments through her ceramic and bronze sculptures, has been well...
Margaret Flockton, A Fragrant Memory, Louise Wilson
Thursday April 2, 2020
Jacketed HB 320 PP 234 x 180 Full colour t/out ISBN 978 1 74305 447 5 Biography November $49.95 published by Wakefield Press
signed copies available from the gallery SOLD OUT
In 1894, a shy young Englishwoman dazzled the art world with her first exhibited work in New South Wales. ...
read more about Margaret Flockton, A Fragrant Memory, Louise Wilson