Deborah Klein
In an artist’s statement accompanying the exhibition of this body of work at Queenscliff Gallery, Klein writes that the show “addresses a particularly divisive period in our history, when our state of disconnection – from ourselves, from each other and from the natural world – seems greater than ever before.” Her work’s engagement with ideas […]
Peebles Print Prize
Now in its third iteration, the Peebles Print Prize was established by Queenscliff Gallery with Graeme Peebles, a Queenscliff local and exhibiting artist with the gallery. The award seeks to recognise technical and conceptual excellence, and innovation, across the broad field of intaglio printmaking, in a gesture to Peebles’s longstanding work in mezzotint printing. Having […]
Marian Crawford
Although now based in Melbourne, I spent my childhood on the Central Pacific Ocean island Banaba, part of the nation of Kiribati. In between bouts of study – including Melbourne University, Victorian College of the Arts and RMIT University – I lived for almost two years in Northern Italy. I’ve been trying to identify why […]
John Scurry
John Scurry’s new works in oil and watercolour are most obviously ‘about’ landscape: a life lived within it, the artist’s attachments to it, and the way that light shifts through it at different hours and latitudes. Though Scurry is known just as much for his interiors and other genre work, these landscapes speak of his […]
Steve Lopes
Asking where expressionist painting began is like asking who invented drawing. Historically, the Western expressionist artist is individualistic, the work not readily situated in specific art periods and countries: both El Greco and Bosch were expressionists. In the early twentieth century, artists embracing revolutionary ideals were given this label. Expressionism, using form and structure to […]

