I have a number of works in the beautiful exhibition Telling Tales at the Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne. Telling Tales is an exhibition that explores storytelling and a shared fascination with books and the literary world in contemporary art.

Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne. 3 December 2021 – 6 February 2022. 

Curated by Diane Soumilas

PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL AWARD

Portia Geach Memorial Award 2021, opens on Friday 5 November and continues until Sunday 20 December at the SH Ervin Gallery in Sydney. The Award was established by the will of the late Florence Kate Geach in memory of her sister, Portia Geach.

‘Self Portrait as Parent’, 2021, oil on linen, 18 x 18cm

BLACK & GOLD

Very happy to be included in Black & Gold at the Warrnambool Art Gallery (until 30 January 2022) – many thanks to Vanessa Gerrans and Aaron Bradbrook.

“In a world where extreme circumstances are making us question what is valuable, the WAG has curated a show that plays on the idea of ‘Black & Gold’, a well-known discount brand in the consumer world, by presenting a lavish collection of works that absorb and reflect the spectrum of what we have valued in the past.

In this tongue in cheek play on brand and value, black is flat and holds no light until it takes an eloquent form, so too the garish yellow of cut-price manufactured sustenance pales as the reflection of gold, gilt and bronze illuminate creativity and reflect the mastery of well-expressed ideas and artistry. WAG has delved into its own collection and added works from private collections to present a show embracing the true value and contrasts of black and gold.”

Jan Murphy Gallery and I are donating 100% of the proceeds of the artwork ‘Surge’ to Ben Quilty’s Afghanistan fundraiser for UNHCR. You can view this work, and others generously donated on the Jan Murphy Gallery website today. Subscribe on their website if you would like email when the exhibition goes live this morning.
Please contact Jan Murphy Gallery with all purchase enquiries. 

Other artists participating include Keith Burt, Lottie Consalvo, Lucy Culliton, Gerwyn Davies, Claudia Greathead, David Griggs, Celia Gullett, James Guppy, Jacqueline Hennessy, Fiona Hiscock, Juz Kitson, Adam Lester, Richard Lewer, Guido Maestri, Leith Maguire, Robert Malherbe, Lara Merrett, Michael Muir, Leslie Rice, Monica Rohan, Martin Smith, Marina Strocchi, Louise Tate.

Surge 2014
oil on linen
70.0 x 95.0 cm (framed)

THE ART ROOM

Victoria is participating in a Zoom tête-à-tête with Erika Gofton at The Art Room, Melbourne.

The Art Room is an independent art school offering a unique and holistic learning program that helps students to achieve their personal and professional goals. They are run by artists for artists. They run a number of classes and host a great lecture series interviewing artists about their practices. They are particularly relevant for Melbourne artists at the moment who might be feeling a bit isolated – they run many online programs well worth checking out that include live drawing sessions.

BYRON ARTS MAGAZINE

Victoria is featured in the latest issue of Byron Arts Magazine in a feature about about artists responding to isolation (Image featured: Interior, 2020, oil on linen, 76 x 61cm) 

Subscribe to BAM through their website – their coverage of the visual arts is fantastic and your subscription helps to support the magazine and regional arts.

PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL ART AWARD 2020

ART AID FOR GIPPSLAND 2020

TRACE

Victoria has a work in Trace, Brisbane, curated by Carrie McCarthy. Trace is a biennial exhibition and art auction in unexpected West End venues. Victorias work is at the Happy Cabin on Vulture Street. All works are being auctioned online to raise much needed funds for Community Plus. Established as West End Community House over 30 years ago, Community Plus helps with housing support and community life in West End.

For more information and bidding instructions please click here. 

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THIS WILD SONG

Victoria is featured in This Wild Song, a long term project by Melbourne artist Ilona Nelson. Nelson is curating and photographing over 100 significant Australian female artists, to create portraits in which the artist becomes a part of their own artwork.

Visit the collection here for more information about the project.

ART BASEL HONG KONG 2019

MASTERCLASS AT NOOSA REGIONAL GALLERY

DEFEATING THE MYTH

“The Art Room is proud to present this special event – DEFEATING THE MYTH. An intimate evening with Kate Daw, Victoria Reichelt, and Nina Ross discussing the big taboo – Art and Motherhood!

This is a fantastic opportunity to draw inspiration from three very unique artists who are also mothers. Kate, Victoria and Nina will generously share their experiences on how they have continued their arts practice and navigated this journey. It will also be a chance to connect with other artist mothers and form connections through our shared experiences in a safe, nurturing and non-judgemental environment.”

Friday 23rd Novembver
7 – 10pm
Speakers: Kate Daw, Victoria Reichelt and Nina Ross
$45  PLACES ARE LIMITED

OUT NOW – BYRON ARTS MAGAZINE

SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY

COMING SOON 2018

ART BASEL HONG KONG 2018

ART BASEL HONG KONG 2018

STILL: NATIONAL STILL LIFE AWARD 2017

COFFS HARBOUR REGIONAL GALLERY  23 November – 20 January 2018

PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL AWARD 2017

WILLIAM JOLLY BRIDGE

Woodlands is being projected onto the William Jolly Bridge in Brisbane as part of the Brisbane Festival from September 20 – 23. Curated by Creative Move, photo by Damien O’Mara.

Orange Regional Gallery, 8th July – 10th September

This exhibition brings together a selection of paintings by over 140 artists featured in Artist Profile magazine over its 10 year history, providing a comprehensive overview of Australasian painting from 2007 to 2017.

With 40 issues of in-depth interviews and stories to its credit, Artist Profile has become a touchstone visual arts publication for professionals, students  and art lovers.

The magazine’s emphasis on artists’ working processes and personal perspectives is echoed in this exhibition which celebrates the individuality of each painter represented.

An Orange Regional Gallery and Artist Profile partnership exhibition.
Curated by Kon Gouriotis and Lucy Stranger. Click here for more information.

Image: Victoria Reichelt, The Write to Be Forgotten, 2016, oil on linen, 95 x 70cm (Courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery/This Is No Fantasy & Jan Murphy Gallery)

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La Trobe Art Institute, 24th June – 3rd September 2017

Survival Bias presents the work of five Australian artists who explore different aspects of how institutions deal with art and artefacts – the collection, presentation and care of these important and sometimes contested images and objects. The exhibition provides a timely insight into the nature of collecting by the administrative bodies who hold some of our community’s most valuable cultural assets.

The paintings of Deidre But-Husaim provide us with an insight into the ways in which audiences encounter artwork in institutional settings, while Victoria Reichelt’s ‘back-of-house’ images reflect on the ways in which institutions administer the care of their collections. Daniel Boyd’s layered artworks lift the lid on systemic abuses evident in the structures of our public institutions, offering us an opportunity to look afresh at those acts and actions we might take for granted and assume to be without bias. Conservation as a mutable and mutational act is explored in the work of Penny Byrne, as she manipulates collectible objects with an infusion of contemporary content and context. Hannah Bertram, working directly with La Trobe University’s own collection management, addresses notions of labour and the physicality of care that come with protecting artworks hidden away from the public eye.

Click here for more information.

Featuring Daniel Boyd, Penny Byrne, Deidre But-Husaim, Hannah Bertram & Victoria Reichelt.

Image: Victoria Reichelt, ‘Flood 3’, 2014, oil on linen, 95 x 70cm courtesy of This is No Fantasy + Dianne Tanzer Gallery 

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PRECIPICE

This is No Fantasy, Melbourne until 24 June 2017

This project is supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund. The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government and the City of Gold Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

With article by Louise Martin-Chew

PRECIPICE

1st June 2017. For more information please contact This is No Fantasy, Melbourne.

This project is supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund. The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government and the City of Gold Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

JOHN LESLIE ART PRIZE

GIPPSLAND ART GALLERY, SALE, VIC   3 September – 20 November 2016

Gippsland Art Gallery has announced the 47 finalists for the 2016 John Leslie Art Prize. Showcasing the best of contemporary landscape painting, the $20,000 non-acquisitive award and biennial exhibition will feature works by Tanya Baily, Claire Bridge, Tim Bučković, Kevin Chin, Jason Cordero, Gabrielle Courtenay, Peter Daverington, Jeremy Elkington, Josh Foley, Betra Fraval, Gavin Fry, Oscar Garcia, Linda Gibbs, Stephen Haley, Nicholas Harding, Adrian Headland, Sarah Hendy, Nigel Hewitt, Sophia Hewson, Justin Holt, Alan Jones, Linda Joy, Gina Kalabishis, Richard Knafelc, Richard Maude, Andrew Mezei, Viv Miller, Saffron Newey, Grant Nimmo, Adam Nudelman, Allyson Parsons, Amelda Read-Forsythe, Victoria Reichelt, Mark Rodda, Phil Ryan, Ken Smith, Adriane Strampp, A.J. Taylor, Ross Taylor, Leah Thiessen, Sarah Tomasetti, Brett Weir, Anita West, Naomi White, Kim Wilson, Alice Wormald, and Chee Yong. The recipient of the $20,000 non-acquisitive 2016 John Leslie Art Prize will be announced on the evening of Friday 2 September, with the exhibition opening to the public on Saturday 3 September.

Artist Statement about The Write to Be Forgotten

I make paintings that investigate objects and ideas that are threatened by redundancy or are in different states of change, largely due to advances in digital technologies. In the past I have made paintings of abandoned libraries and archive settings, as well as objects (such as books and magazines) that speak to the aesthetics of collection, abundance and abandonment. The Write to Be Forgotten depicts two mountains of ‘Post-it’ (or sticky) notes, delicately and precariously piled on top of each other. This work is from a new series of paintings that develops from my earlier practice, by considering ordinary objects related to the practical tools used in offices, record keeping and work environments.

In the context of the landscape, the mountains of Post-it’s stand in for the natural environment, where mountains of trees would be more commonly represented. The work recognizes the environmental impact of our day to day life, as we forfeit mountains of trees for mountains of paper. The work suggests that a benefit in the move from the physical to the digital, is that fewer elements of the natural landscape will be forfeited for the sake of human needs.

As well as acknowledging the environmental impact of the physical workspace, the work also addresses the conceptual impact of the modern work environment. In the contemporary landscape we are more likely to be faced with mountains of ‘to-do’ lists, promises and urgent requests of our time, than picturesque rows of trees. These Post-it mountains, far from calming or picturesque, are anxiety-inducing reminders of work yet to be done.

The title, The Write to Be Forgotten, comes from the European law enacted in 2006 commonly referred to as ‘The Right to Be Forgotten’, allowing people to be free from their past actions. It is known mainly by its application in the digital arena, where people can request that information about their histories be removed from search engines. This is an apt metaphor when discussing the ubiquitous movement from the physical to the digital, as we increasingly disregard the hand written in favor of the typed. A consequence of this new working environment being that any document, email, meeting or memo is recorded in storage clouds and virtual space, instantly retrievable and shared.

In their painted form, these once useful implements become signs of failure, their relevance and practicality all but redundant as we witness the decline of traditional record keeping and knowledge gathering. The stark blankness of these sticky notes without inscription are reminders of how much of working life has now become transparent, where nothing can be forgotten, but they also raise questions as to what might be lost.

Victoria Reichelt 2016

Click here to see catalogue

Image: Victoria Reichelt, The Write to Be Forgotten, 2016, oil on linen, 95 x 70cm (Courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery/This Is No Fantasy & Jan Murphy Gallery)

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THE ORDINARY INSTANT

ARTIST PROFILE MAGAZINE

ART 16 LONDON

COMING SOON

ART 16, LONDON

Image: Victoria Reichelt, Medical History, 2016, oil on linen, 61.5 x 61.5cm  (Courtesy of This is no Fantasy, Melbourne).

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 CULTURAL FLANERIE REVIEW 

Review by Carrie McCarthy, December 2015

“..The most compelling of Reichelt’s works, however, are the ones devoid of any life at all. Scenes of the future epoch, where traces of people exist in ghostly ways. A shelf of archive boxes with handwritten notations, a drawer of catalogue cards left open as though the librarian had mysteriously vanished, an office chair without the body it ordinarily supports..”

Read Carrie McCarthy’s review at Cultural Flanerie here.

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NOW OPEN

FUTURE RUINS, JAN MURPHY GALLERY

6th October – 31st October 2015

The exhibition Future Ruins considers the abandoned, haunting interiors of library and archive spaces, as a way of looking at our most recent past and thinking about our digital future.

Historically, the ruin has represented a remnant and repository of past knowledge, where, for example the antique ruins of Rome were described by the French archaeologist Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy as “great books whose pages have been destroyed or ripped out by time.”[1] As we witness the decline of the traditional physical archive as the keeper of history (in favour of the digital), these paintings explore the aesthetics of abandonment. As library and archive spaces morph into burgeoning hubs of new media, their abandoned back rooms remind us that the ruins of the future will not offer the picturesque decay of romantic crumbling walls. Instead, the modern ruin will be a stark and silent place of grey concrete corridors, where even the intensity of industrial colour will vanish into darkness and decline.

Reduced to their most bare and lifeless forms, these future ruins offer an opportunity to speculate about the fate of materiality. Spaces to contemplate what traces and residues will remain when human imagination, creativity and knowledge is captured in ways bereft of physical tangibility.

[1] Fint, Kate, 2014 ‘The Aesthetics of Book Destruction’ in Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary, Partington, Gillian & Syth, Adam (eds), Palgrave Macmillan p.185.

For more information please contact Jan Murphy Gallery.

Image: Installation photo of Future Ruins  &  Victoria Reichelt, Blue Ruin, 2015, oil on linen, 91 x 75cm & Victoria Reichelt (Courtesy of Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane).

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OPENING SOON

FUTURE RUINS, JAN MURPHY GALLERY

Opening 6th October, 2015

For more information please contact Jan Murphy Gallery.

Image: Victoria Reichelt, Aqua Ruin, 2015, oil on linen, 91 x 75cm & Victoria Reichelt, Yellow Ruin, 2015, oil on linen, 91 x 75cm (Courtesy of Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane).

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OPEN NOW

DISCERNING JUDGEMENT, SUPREME COURT LIBRARY OF QUEENSLAND

FROM 21st AUGUST, 2015

In both art and law, judgment is crucial. While a legal judgment and a work of art may appear to be very different things, in fact they share many commonalities. Both lawyers and artists employ reasoning and perception in their practices and their work is subject to scrutiny, review and critique.

The exhibition Discerning Judgment, open from 21 August at the Supreme Court Library, will feature works of nine leading contemporary Australian artists: Robert Andrew, Michael Cook, Joachim Froese, Linde Ivimey, Victoria Reichelt, Tyza Stewart, Kylie Stillman, Judy Watson and Michael Zavros. The artists will offer audiences a thought-provoking visual experience in discerning the art of law. The exhibition is curated by John Stafford and Jodie Cox from CREATIVEMOVE in collaboration with the Supreme Court Library.

See review by Carrie McCarthy from Cultural Flanerie here.

A series of artist-in-residencies is then planned for 2016 and beyond, where each of these artists will work with a legal mentor to more intensively explore a particular area of the law.

For more information please contact the Library’s curator Linda Phillips on 07 3006 5136 or Linda.Phillips@sclqld.org.au.

Image: Victoria Reichelt, Prowl, 2014, oil on linen, 130 x 91cm & installation photo featuring Victoria Reichelt, Lurk, 2014, oil on linen, 130 x 91cm.

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SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY, CARRIAGEWORKS

10 – 13 SEPTEMBER 2015

FUTURE RUINS, JAN MURPHY GALLERY

Victoria will be exhibiting with the Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane in October 2015.

Image: Victoria Reichelt, Green Ruin, 2015, oil on linen, 91 x 75cm (Courtesy of Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane).

STUDIO PROFILE

“..Using dozens of different sized brushes, down to one so small it has just a few tiny hairs, Reichelt admits painting white on white is one of the most challenging projects she’s ever undertaken. Sharne Wolff visited Victoria Reichelt’s home studio ahead of her current show with Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects – here’s what she saw..” Raven Contemporary, October 2014

Images courtesy of Raven Contemporary

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OPENING SOON

PAPER TRAILS: CARLY FISCHER & VICTORIA REICHELT

DIANNE TANZER GALLERY + PROJECTS / THIS IS NO FANTASY
15 OCTOBER – 8 NOVEMBER 2014

The exhibition Paper Trails reflects on a dialogue between the work of artists Victoria Reichelt and Carly Fischer. Developed as separate works, Reichelt’s paintings and Fischer’s sculptures share the exhibition space at Dianne Tanzer Gallery/THIS IS NO FANTASY to explore a common vocabulary around the precarious medium of paper. They begin the conversation with a shared interest in the peripheries; the discarded objects that accumulate in forgotten places, gathering dust. In Reichelt’s paintings it is the boxes of paper archives that gather dust inside library storerooms, while Fischer’s scale paper models reference the kind of detritus dropped in the desert, sprayed with red dirt. Zooming in on these fragments, both artists re-present the peripheral as a kind of Paper Trail that leads to the broader cultural concerns of their contemporary context. Click here to read more.

Images: Victoria Reichelt, Surge, 2014, oil on linen, 91 x 75cm (Courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne) & Carly Fischer, Total Eclipse of the Heart #1, 2014, Paper, foam core & adhesives, 1:1 scale model, 20 x 19 x 19cm (photo Georgia Papagiannis) (Courtesy of This is No Fantasy, Melbourne)

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OPENING SOON
7 AUGUST – 24 AUGUST 2014

COINCIDING WITH THE MELBOURNE ART FAIR
108 – 110 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

THIS IS NO FANTASY in conjunction with Nellie Castan Projects

Natasha BIENIEK • Chris BOND • Bindi COLE • Michael COOK • Juan FORD • Marc FREEMAN • Neil HADDON • Petrina HICKS • Tony LLOYD • Fiona McMONAGLE • Tom MOORE • Polixeni PAPAPETROU • Reuben PATERSON • Victoria REICHELT • Yhonnie SCARCE • Jacqui STOCKDALE • Kate TUCKER

To coincide our Melbourne Art Fair exhibition THIS IS NO FANTASY will also present a curated group exhibition in our Gertrude Street space. We are excited to bring together a stellar line-up of artists from dianne tanzer gallery + projects and Helen Gory Galerie as well as guest artists from Nellie Castan Projects. We invite you to the gallery – just a short walk from the Royal Exhibition Building – to celebrate all our artists. Please email the gallery for an exhibition catalogue

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OPENING SOON
GEELONG CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE

GEELONG GALLERY
30 AUGUST 2014 – 23 NOVEMBER 2014

Victoria is a finalist in the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. The Geelong Gallery has hosted ‘prize’ exhibitions since the late 1930s and works acquired through these events have enriched the Gallery’s remarkable collection of contemporary Australian art. The Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (formerly the Fletcher Jones Art Prize) for painting is the gallery’s biennial $30,000 acquisitive award for contemporary painting. The selection panel consists of Geoffrey Edwards (Director, Geelong Gallery), Lisa Sullivan (Curator, Geelong Gallery) & Charlotte Day (Director, Monash University Museum of Art). The 2014 finalists are:

Tony Albert • Fergus Binns • Stephen Bram • Mitch Cairns • Jon Campbell • Vicki Clissold • Dick Collis • Jason Cordero • George Egerton-Warburton, Hamishi Farah & Helen Johnson • Emily Ferretti • Prudence Flint • Adrienne Gaha • Eleanor Hart • Katherine Hattam • Kristin Headlam • Euan Heng • Peter Hill • Dean Home • Dena Kahan • Joanna Lamb • Adam Lee • Rob McHaffie • Moya McKenna • William Mackinnon • Andrew Mezei • Scott Miles • Vera Moller • Tully Moore • John Nixon • Stieg Persson • Josie Kunoth Petyarre • Adam Pyett • Victoria Reichelt • Steven Rendall • Mark Rodda • Felicity Spear • Heather B Swann • Judith Van Heeren • Deborah Walker • Irene Wellm • Paul Williams • Alice Wormald

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COMING SOON

DIANNE TANZER GALLERY

Victoria will be exhibiting with the Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne later in 2014.

Image: Victoria Reichelt, Vestige, 2014, oil on linen, 35 x 25cm (Courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne).

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JAN MURPHY GALLERY

Form & Substance, curated by Alex Seton

17 June – 12 July 2014

Image: Victoria Reichelt, Flat pack, 2014, oil on linen, 18 x 18cm (Courtesy of Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane).

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ON NOW
THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY

30 April 2014 – 27 June 2014

CHRIS BOND | EOLO PAUL BOTTARO | JUAN FORD | SAM LEACH | AMANDA MARBURG | VICTORIA REICHELT

The death of painting has been declared – again and again – for the better part of two centuries. Photography did it. There was no longer a need to labour with pigment and brushes when a more faithful representation could be achieved with the press of a button. Of course, they were wrong. The demise of painting was a mistruth – a furphy. But as with any aspersion, spread the word often enough and the smear will leave a stain – maybe even in the minds of the most ardent of devotees.

It’s interesting that one of the prevailing and more celebrated paradigms in contemporary figurative painting is the emulation of the photograph. Fidelity to appearance has re-emerged as a favoured means of capturing a subject in much contemporary painting. But that’s not the full extent of it either. Amongst those working in this space there is a subset of artists whose subject matter is the stuff of the work itself. The object depicted is the medium.

The Medium is the Message brings together the work of six important contemporary artists who, through their individual painting practices, reflect on the state and relevance of painting today through depictions of the medium itself and other aspects of the canon. The artists represented in this exhibition include Amanda Marburg, Chris Bond, Eolo Paul Bottaro, Juan Ford, Sam Leach and Victoria Reichelt. Curated by Michael Brennan.

Related article:

Image: Victoria Reichelt, Formless, 2008, oil on canvas, 44 x 83cm.

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JANUARY-MARCH ART COLLECTOR MAGAZINE

Article by Louise Martin-Chew in latest Australian Art Collector magazine.

(Image: Courtesy of Art Collector magazine)

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INTERVIEW

Image by Toby Scott courtesy of The Design Files

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LOSSLESS: ALEX SETON & VICTORIA REICHELT

JAN MURPHY GALLERY 

29 OCTOBER – 16 NOVEMBER

Image: Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND NATIONAL ARTISTS’ SELF-PORTRAIT PRIZE 2013

Remix. Post. Connect.

19 OCTOBER 2013 – 16 FEBRUARY 2014

The prominence given to the self image in social media, on reality television and in everyday life has generated an audience primed to receive and consume personal information. Whether artists today operate from a digital platform or not, their self portraits are likely to be understood within this context. remix. post. connect. explores the impulse to manipulate, present or communicate aspects of self, and acknowledges the duplicity inherent in self representation. The invited artists adopt various approaches that do not always conform to traditional notions of self portraiture. While some use biography or narrative, others are less overt. In each case, the artists have disclosed something about themselves, whether fabricated or ‘real’.

Curator: Samantha Littley, Judge: Blair French

Chris Bennie • Natasha Bieniek • Jane Burton • Thea Costantino • Paula Do Prado • James Dodd • Adrienne Doig • Yavuz Erkan • Fiona Foley • Katherine Griffiths •  David Griggs •  Brent Harris • Petrina Hicks • Anastasia Klose •  Michael Lindeman • Jess MacNeil • Jennifer Mills • Kate Mitchell • Archie Moore • Nell • James Newitt •  Shaun O’Connor • Tom O’Hern • Ryan Presley • Eugenia Raskopoulos • Victoria Reichelt • Tobias Richardson • Stuart Ringholt • David Rosetzky •  Khaled Sabsabi • Yhonnie Scarce • Nalda Searles • Alexander Seton • Sancintya Simpson • Jacqui Stockdale • Darren Sylvester • TextaQueen • David M Thomas • Min Wong

Related article:

Image: Victoria Reichelt, 1981, 18 x 18cm (1 of 2 parts), 2013, oil on linen (Courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne).

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COMING SOON

LOSSLESS: ALEX SETON & VICTORIA REICHELT

Images: Victoria Reichelt, Lurk, 2013, Oil on Linen, 130 x 91cm   &   Alex Seton, A3, 2013, Bianca marble on A3 paper, 11 x 11 x 11cm (paper 14 x 42 x 29cm) (Courtesy of Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane).

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COMING SOON

THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ARTISTS’ SELF-PORTRAIT PRIZE 2013

Remix. Post. Connect.

19 OCTOBER 2013 – 16 FEBRUARY 2014

The prominence given to the self image in social media, on reality television and in everyday life has generated an audience primed to receive and consume personal information. Whether artists today operate from a digital platform or not, their self portraits are likely to be understood within this context. remix. post. connect. explores the impulse to manipulate, present or communicate aspects of self, and acknowledges the duplicity inherent in self representation. The invited artists adopt various approaches that do not always conform to traditional notions of self portraiture. While some use biography or narrative, others are less overt. In each case, the artists have disclosed something about themselves, whether fabricated or ‘real’.

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SULMAN ART PRIZE 2013

VICTORIA HAS WON THE SULMAN ART PRIZE AT THE ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

The Sulman Prize is awarded for the best subject painting, genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist and is held in conjunction with the Archibald Prize and the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Established within the terms of Sir John Sulman’s bequest, the prize was first awarded in 1936. Each year the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales invite a guest artist to judge this open competition, this year the judge was Kate Benyon. Finalists are displayed in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 23 Mar – 2 Jun 2013.

Related articles:

Photo courtesy of Lee Tran Lam

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SULMAN ART PRIZE 2013

VICTORIA IS A FINALIST IN THE SULMAN ART PRIZE AT THE ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

The Sulman Prize is awarded for the best subject painting, genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist and is held in conjunction with the Archibald Prize and the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Established within the terms of Sir John Sulman’s bequest, the prize was first awarded in 1936. Each year the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales invite a guest artist to judge this open competition, this year the judge is Kate Benyon. Finalists are displayed in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 23 Mar – 2 Jun 2013.

Image: After (books), oil on linen, 2013, 130 x 91cm (Courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Selected new works opening at Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.

108 – 110 Gertrude St, Fitzroy VIC 3065

For more information please contact www.diannetanzergallery.net.au

Image: Sleep, oil on linen, 2012, 34.5 x 34.5cm (Courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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ART STAGE SINGAPORE WITH THE DIANNE TANZER GALLERY 

24 – 27 JANUARY 2013

Art Stage Singapore is now open at the Marina Bay Sands Convention & Exhibition Centre, Singapore.

For more information about Victoria’s solo exhibition at Art Stage Singapore please contact the Dianne Tanzer Gallery.

READ CATALOGUE ESSAY FOR ART STAGE SINGAPORE BY LOUISE MARTIN CHEW

To read catalogue essay click here.

Image: Installation, Art Stage Singapore  (Courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne) and Catalogue

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COMING SOON

ART STAGE SINGAPORE

ART STAGE SINGAPORE WITH THE DIANNE TANZER GALLERY 

24 – 27 JANUARY 2013

Art Stage Singapore is Asia’s premier international art fair. It is the definitive rendezvous point for collectors, artists, art enthusiasts, academics and museum & gallery professionals with a strong focus on quality through stringent selection. Art Stage Singapore embraces Singapore’s unique position as a bridge between the East and the West in a celebration of both emerging new regional artists and international superstar names.

In 2013, Art Stage Singapore will be held from 24 – 27 January at the Marina Bay Sands Convention & Exhibition Centre. With over 100 galleries exhibiting, the fair will also feature the Indonesian Pavilion, country platforms for Singapore and Australia, and a new digital version of the fair, Art Stage +.

For more information about Victoria’s solo exhibition at Art Stage Singapore please contact the Dianne Tanzer Gallery.

Image: Slide, oil on linen, 2012, 34.5 x 34.5cm (Courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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ART FOR OUR SCHOOLS PROGRAM 

In October / November, Victoria participated in the Art For Our Schools program (a program run by the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art to enrich art education in Queensland schools, by providing opportunities for teachers and students to work with contemporary artists). Victoria worked with the year 11 students at St Peters Lutheran College, Brisbane to help them make a body of work that was a contemporary interpretation of a works from the exhibition Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado at the Queensland Art Gallery.

(Images from workshop courtesy of the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art and St Peters Lutheran College, Brisbane)

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VICTORIA’S WORK ACQUIRED IN THE GOLD COAST ART PRIZE AND WINS PEOPLE’S CHOICE PRIZE

8 DECEMBER – 3 FEBRUARY 2012                                                          

GOLD COAST CITY ART GALLERY

Victoria’s work Colour Field has been acquired through the Gold Coast Art Prize. 2012 Judge Dr Campbell Gray (Director of the University of Queensland Art Museum) selected 60 contemporary Australian artists as finalists in the Gold Coast Art Prize and selected one winner and four acquisitions. There was a total of $30,000 for acquisitions and there is a forthcoming $5,000 People’s Choice Award.

Winner of the 2012 Gold Coast Art Prize: Chris Bennie, The Western Fields 2012, single channel Quicktime file. Courtesy of the artist

Acquisitions: Chris Bennie, The Western Fields 2012, single channel Quicktime file. Courtesy of the artist,

Eugene Carchesio, White cones 2012, manuscript paper. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane

Tannya Harricks, St Germain 2012, oil on board. Courtesy of the artist

Roy McIvor, Dynamic order #9 2012, synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne

Victoria Reichelt, Colour Field 2012, oil on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane and Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne

UPDATE – Victoria has also been announced winner of the $5000 People’s Choice Prize, generously sponsored by 19 KAREN CONTEMPORARY ARTSPACE. Many thanks to all who voted!

Image: Colour Field, oil on linen, 2012, 150 x 125cm (Courtesy of Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane)

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OCTOBER HARPER’S BAZAAR MAGAZINE

(Image: Courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar magazine)

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NOW SHOWING

CATALOGUE AT THE GIPPSLAND ART GALLERY

8 SEPTEMBER – 4 NOVEMBER 2012                                              

Gippsland Art Gallery, 68 Foster Street, Sale

“The playful paintings of Victoria Reichelt linger somewhere between geometric abstraction and hyperrealism. Catalogue features new and recent works to explore book spines and library shelves as sources of unexpected aesthetic delight. The works consider the motivation behind the collecting impulse to form a colourful essay on our love of books.”

Click here to see the catalogue.

Image: Install photo (Courtesy of Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale)

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INTERVIEW – ART WORLD WOMEN

“Following on from a hugely successful show at the 2011 Korea International Art Fair, Queensland artist Victoria Reichelt has been shaping a stunning 2012 year of exhibitions. She may be affectionately known as the “book lady”, but definitely not in the musty librarian conjurings of the term. Quite the opposite.  Reichelt’s work is as sleek, stylish and intelligently constructed as the Vogue magazines in which it frequently appears. Impeccable as a pristinely tucked white linen sheet without a wrinkle in sight. Just like the person that might make such a bed, there is an observable obsession to perfection in Reichelt’s work.  In fact, there’s a lot more going on below the covers of Reichelt’s paintings, with a hint of the subversive breaking ground in her latest work. Art World Women recently had a chat with Victoria about her fascination with books and her upcoming exhibitions…” (Read here – Art World Women)

Art World Women is a platform created by artist Claire Bridge which showcases and celebrates the talent and Art of Women Artists, creating and claiming a space for Women in the Art World.

Image: Colour Theory 1, 2012, 29 x 25cm (31 x 27cm with frame), oil on linen (courtesy of Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane)

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LECTURE & WORKSHOP AT QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY / GALLERY OF MODERN ART, BRISBANE

In July 2012, Victoria presented a lecture and workshop as part of the Look Out Teacher Program (a professional development program for teachers) at the Queensland Art Gallery  / Gallery of Modern Art (in association with Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado). Victoria will also be participating in the Art for Our School program in October.

Images from workshop by Chloe Callistemon (courtesy of the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane)

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INTERVIEW – THE ART LIFE

“Victoria Reichelt is a young Queensland painter and a member of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council. Sharne Wolff recently had a chat to Victoria in her Queensland studio…”  (Read here – The Art Life)

Image: Fall, 2012, 150 x 105cm, oil on linen (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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NOW SHOWING

3 TRAJECTORIES AT THE JAN MURPHY GALLERY, BRISBANE

7 AUGUST – 25 AUGUST 2012

Jan Murphy Gallery, 486 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane          

Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am – 5pm or by appointment.

Image: Installation View, Jan Murphy Gallery (courtesy of Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane)

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COMING SOON

CATALOGUE AT THE GIPPSLAND ART GALLERY, SALE, VIC

8 SEPTEMBER – 4 NOVEMBER 2012                                                

Gippsland Art Gallery, 68 Foster Street, Sale

“The playful paintings of Victoria Reichelt linger somewhere between geometric abstraction and hyperrealism. Catalogue features new and recent works to explore book spines and library shelves as sources of unexpected aesthetic delight. The works consider the motivation behind the collecting impulse to form a colourful essay on our love of books.”

Image: Colour Field, oil on linen, 2012, 150 x 125cm (Courtesy of Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane)

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THE GOLD AWARD, ROCKHAMPTON ART GALLERY

ARTIST TALKS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE GOLD AWARD                  

ROCKHAMPTON ART GALLERY, JUNE 2nd, 11am

Join Gold Award artists Jason Benjamin, Kate Bergin, Victoria Reichelt and Kate Shaw as they discuss their practice and the role of art prizes in contemporary visual arts culture. To be chaired by Gold Award Judge, Julie Ewington, Curatorial Manager, Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery/Modern Art.

Image: Installation at Rockhampton Art Gallery, Fall, 2012, 150 x 105cm, oil on linen & Climb, 2012, 105 x 150cm, oil on linen (Courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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ART ON ART AT THE GOLD COAST CITY ART GALLERY

12 MAY – 24 JUNE 2012

The art world is a rich storehouse of stories and imagery for artists to reflect upon. This exhibition presents artists making artwork about art, the history, the politics, the fashions and the controversies. The exhibition features the work of PJ Hickman, Alasdair Macintyre, Victoria Reichelt, Julie Rrap, Matthew Sleeth,Imants Tillers, Anne Zahalka and Michael Zavros.

Image, Donna Marcus, 2008, oil on linen, 75 x 75cm. (Seldon Gill Corporate Collection, Melbourne)

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VICTORIA IS A FINALIST IN THE GOLD AWARD AT THE ROCKHAMPTON ART GALLERY

ROCKHAMPTON ART GALLERY MEDIA RELEASE:

Eight artists have been announced for the Inaugural $50,000 Gold Award for contemporary painting.

The artists, selected by invitation are: Jason Benjamin (NSW) | Kate Bergin (Qld) | Juan Ford (Vic) | Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (Qld) | Ben Quilty (NSW) | Victoria Reichelt (Qld) | Kate Shaw (Vic) | Michael Zavros (Qld)

These artists, multiple and recent prizewinners in some of Australia’s most significant prizes including the Archibald and Doug Moran Portrait Prizes; and the Wynne and Arthur Guy Painting Prizes produces a high caliber, potent prize representing in many ways the crème-de-la-crème of contemporary painting.

The Gold Award will be a national biennial event realized as a joint initiative of Rockhampton Art Gallery Trust, Rockhampton Art Gallery and Rockhampton Regional Council. The winner will be announced Friday 1 June.

Image: Fall, 2012, 150 x 105cm, oil on linen (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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PAIRS AT THE DIANNE TANZER GALLERY

24 MARCH – 28 APRIL 2012

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COMING UP IN 2012

Exhibitions with DIANNE TANZER GALLERY (Melbourne), JAN MURPHY GALLERY (Brisbane) and GIPPSLAND GALLERY (Sale, VIC), as well as work featured in shows at ROCKHAMPTON ART GALLERY and GOLD COAST CITY ART GALLERY. Stay tuned for more info..

Image: Fall, 2012, 150 x 105cm, oil on linen (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria’s work is featured in

BOOKSHELF BY ALEX JOHNSON (Thames & Hudson, London)

A title that will appeal to those interested in book culture as well as furniture and interior design, Bookshelf is the first publication to take bookshelf design as its subject. From the conceptual Read-Unread Bookshelf (which weighs books read against those still to be started) to the multi-function Trick (a unit that transforms from shelf-space into a table and two chairs), Bookshelf presents over 200 inventive and experimental shelving designs in more than 400 colour illustrations that are sure to covet and inspire. Individual specification details are provided for each bookcase, including materials and documentation, and the accompanying texts by Alex Johnson, author and editor of The Blog on the Bookshelf, provide a fun and informative look at the history of the bookcase, as well as reflecting on how a new generation of designers have re-imagined a classic. One might have presumed that, with the advent of the e-book, the days of the bookshelf were numbered. In fact, readers are now taking almost as much interest in the furniture that houses their libraries as the books themselves; if the titles in your collection are a reflection of your personality, then so too is the design of your bookshelf.

Order Bookshelf from Amazon

(Bookshelf | Alex Johnson | Thames & Hudson | 272 pages | © 2012)

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VICTORIA’S WORK IS FEATURED IN THE JANUARY ISSUE OF ITALIAN VANITY FAIR

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VICTORIA’S WORK IS FEATURED IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF AUSTRALIAN ART COLLECTOR

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VICTORIA’S WORK IS FEATURED IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF KOREAN LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE 여성조선 (WOMAN CHOSUN)

 

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2011 KOREA INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR

22 SEPTEMBER – 26 SEPTEMBER 2011

Victoria is showing with the Dianne Tanzer Gallery at the Korea International Art Fair (KIAF) 2011. KIAF is the second largest art fair in Asia. 2011 brings 19 Australian galleries to the art fair in Seoul, as a project of the Year of Friendship between Australia and South Korea. Victoria’s exhibition, titled Shift, is a series of paintings of stacks & covers of various magazines, exploring the potential shift in the nature of how books and magazines are presented to us, from the physical to the digital, along with considering the motivations behind the collecting impulse and people’s love of these objects. Shift acts as a monument to the magazines that live temporarily scattered around our homes, to be kept and collected or replaced with newer versions of themselves….Read Kate Rhodes’ catalogue essay here:

Paint is the answer but what is the question?

회화(Paint)가 바로 해답입니다. 그렇다면 질문은 무엇일까요?

This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Regional Arts Development Fund (an Arts Queensland & Gold Coast City Council partnership to support local arts and culture).

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AIRING THIS WEEK

INTERVIEW ON HEART TO HEART, ARIRANG TV, KOREA 

THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2011, 9pm KST

See the Heart to Heart website for more details..

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OPENING NEXT WEEK

2011 KOREA INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR

22 SEPTEMBER – 26 SEPTEMBER 2011

Image, Life, July 13 1953, oil on linen, 2011, 34.5 x 45.5cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Regional Arts Development Fund (an Arts Queensland & Gold Coast City Council partnership to support local arts and culture).

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Victoria’s work is included in

BOOKWORK: MEDIUM TO OBJECT TO CONCEPT TO ART

BY GARRETT STEWART, University of Chicago Press

“There they rest, inert, impertinent, in gallery space—those book forms either imitated or mutilated, replicas of reading matter or its vestiges. Strange, after its long and robust career, for the book to take early retirement in a museum, not as rare manuscript but as functionless sculpture. Readymade or constructed, such book shapes are canceled as text when deposited as gallery objects, shut off from their normal reading when not, in some yet more drastic way, dismembered or reassembled.” So begins Bookwork, which follows our passion for books to its logical extreme in artists who employ found or simulated books as a sculptural medium. Investigating the conceptual labor behind this proliferating international art practice, Garrett Stewart looks at hundreds of book-like objects, alone or as part of gallery installations, in this original account of works that force attention upon a book’s material identity and cultural resonance.

Less an inquiry into the artist’s book than an exploration of the book form’s contemporary objecthood, Stewart’s interdisciplinary approach traces the lineage of these aggressive artifacts from the 1919 Unhappy Readymade of Marcel Duchamp down to the current crisis of paper-based media in the digital era. Bookwork surveys and illustrates a stunning variety of appropriated and fabricated books alike, ranging from hacksawed discards to the giant lead folios of Anselm Kiefer. The unreadable books Stewart engages with in this timely study are found, again and again, to generate graphic metaphors for the textual experience they preclude, becoming in this sense legible after all.

(Bookwork: Medium to Object to Concept to Art | Garrett Stewart | University of Chicago Press | 272 pages | 12 color plates, 68 halftones, 1 line drawing | © 2011)

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Victoria is a finalist in the

2011 MOSMAN ART PRIZE at the Mosman Art Gallery

30 JULY – 4 SEPTEMBER 2011

The Mosman Art Prize is an annual, acquisitive award for painting. Established in 1947, the Prize is one of the oldest and most prestigious, local government art awards in Australia. The winning works form an outstanding collection of modern and contemporary art, reflecting developments in Australian art practice over the last half a century. See the list of finalists here.

Image: Uprising, 2011, oil on linen, 112 x 91cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria is representing the Dianne Tanzer Gallery at the

2011 KOREA INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR

22 SEPTEMBER – 26 SEPTEMBER 2011

KIAF is the second largest art fair in Asia. 2011 brings 19 Australian galleries to the art fair in Seoul, as a project of the Year of Friendship between Australia and South Korea. Victoria’s exhibition, titled Shift, is a series of paintings of stacks of various magazines, exploring the potential shift in the nature of how books and magazines are presented to us, from the physical to the digital, along with considering the motivations behind the collecting impulse and people’s love of these objects. Shift acts as a monument to the magazines that live temporarily scattered around our homes, to be kept and collected or replaced with newer versions of themselves…Stay tuned for more information or visit the KIAF website here.

Image: In Style, 2011, oil on linen, 85 x 55cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne).

This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Regional Arts Development Fund (an Arts Queensland & Gold Coast City Council partnership to support local arts and culture).

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Victoria is featured in the latest issue of Inside Out magazine.

Kirra Jamison, James Gulliver Hancock & Victoria Reichelt have donated original artworks for the Inside Out charity auction to support the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal and the Australian Red Cross Victorian Floods Appeal.

To see the artworks and made a bid, please visit the Inside Out website (click on below image).

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Victoria’s work has been acquired by the Gold Coast City Art Gallery through the

2010 STAN AND MAUREEN DUKE ART PRIZE

Gold Coast City Art Gallery

14 DECEMBER – 6 FEBRUARY 2011

The Stan and Maureen Duke Art Prize is an acquisitive art award and exhibition held annually at the Gold Coast City Art Gallery. This years judge was Geoffrey Cassidy, Director of Artbank, the largest buyer of Australian contemporary art in the country. Total prize and acquisitions of $30,000 were awarded on Saturday December 4th, with Victoria’s painting Last Days being acquired for the collection. Judge, Geoffrey Cassidy said of Victoria’s work, ‘Victoria Reichelt’s stacks of books are more than they seem. In precarious piles with doomsday titles, they foretell their own obsolescence. The painting delights with its technical ability while impressing with its conceptual strength and its humour’..

Image: Last Days, 2010, Oil on Linen, 80 x 80cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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NOW SHOWING

RETRO-MACHINE

Albury Art Gallery

17 SEPTEMBER – 19 NOVEMBER 2010

A celebration of audio visual electronics before the size of your hard drive became more important than the size of your AV cabinet. Artists Sydney based painter Dane Lovett, Queensland’s Victoria Reichelt and installation artist Grey Shapley explore this technological revolution through paintings, photography and interactive sculpture, including a collection of obsolete machines and formats for adults to recollect and children to discover..

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OPENING NEXT WEEK

LOST IN PAINTING

Dianne Tanzer Gallery

21 AUGUST – 18 SEPTEMBER 2010

Featuring Giles ALEXANDER, Natasha BIENIEK, Chris BOND, Marian DREW, Craig EASTON, Vincent FANTAUZZO, Louise PARAMOUR, Victoria REICHELT, Kate SHAW & Megan WALCH.

Lost in Painting is an exhibition exploring contemporary Australian painting by artists from Dianne Tanzer Gallery and Nellie Castan Gallery. Embracing painting’s possibilities, the pursuit of the artists in this exhibition is to continue the ongoing debates over the practice of painting and its location within contemporary art. The galleries are looking to celebrate the diversity of painting by showcasing a cross section of emerging to mid career contemporary painters who work in various processes and mediums, utilising different concepts and content.

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Victoria is a finalist in the

2010 FLETCHER JONES ART PRIZE

Geelong Gallery, Victoria

24 JULY – 12 SEPTEMBER 2010

The Fletcher Jones Art Prize is an acquisitive painting prize, conducted by the Geelong Gallery on a biennial basis. The $30,000 prize money is generously sponsored by Fletcher Jones.

Click here for more information.

Image: Panic, 2010, Oil on Linen, 91 x 112cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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COMING SOON

LOST IN PAINTING

Dianne Tanzer Gallery

21 AUGUST – 18 SEPTEMBER 2010

Featuring Giles ALEXANDER, Natasha BIENIEK, Chris BOND, Marian DREW, Craig EASTON, Vincent FANTAUZZO, Louise PARAMOUR, Victoria REICHELT, Kate SHAW & Megan WALCH.

Lost in Painting is an exhibition exploring contemporary Australian painting by artists from Dianne Tanzer Gallery and Nellie Castan Gallery. Embracing painting’s possibilities, the pursuit of the artists in this exhibition is to continue the ongoing debates over the practice of painting and its location within contemporary art. The galleries are looking to celebrate the diversity of painting by showcasing a cross section of emerging to mid career contemporary painters who work in various processes and mediums, utilising different concepts and content.

Image: English Fairy Tales II, 2010, Oil on Linen, 91 x 112cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria is featured in Lee Tran Lam‘s latest zine Speak-east #11: The French Issue that will be at the Zine Fair at the Museum of Contemporary Art on SUNDAY 23 MAY.

The fabulous Lee Tran Lam has been making zines for the last 13 years. She works for Inside Out magazine and in her spare time she runs a food blog called The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry and presents a show on FBI 94.5FM in Sydney called Local Fidelity.

(Zines are small circulation, non-commercial publications that are printed by their creators on a topic of their choice. They come in all shapes and sizes from personal zine, artzines, zines about music and politics, fanzines. Zines are straight from the writer to the reader: raw, uncut and handmade. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine)

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Victoria is a finalist in the

2010 SULMAN PRIZE, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

The Sir John Sulman Prize is awarded for the best subject painting, genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist.

Click here for a full list of finalists

27 MARCH – 30 MAY 2010

Image: New York, New York, 2010, Oil on Linen, 55 x 85cm  (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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OPENING THIS WEEK

FLYING COLOURS: Queensland College of Art celebrates 10 years of Gold Coast Alumni, Gold Coast City Art Gallery.

Curated by Marian Drew & Donna Marcus.

3 APRIL – 10 MAY 2010

Image: English Fairy Tales I, 2010, Oil on Linen, 91 x 112cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria’s work is featured in the article THE PAINTED BOOK by Peter Terzian for American Print magazine.

The article also features artists Richard Baker (US), Simon Morley (UK), Duncan Hannah (US), Leanne Shapton (US), Harland Miller (UK) & RoulaPartheniou (Canada).

“Lately, a handful of well-read visual artists have turned to book design – specifically, the classic covers of the 20th century – as a source of raw material and inspiration..

..Melbourne artist Victoria Reichelt says that her paintings—of books in piles or on shelves, arranged neatly or in a jumble—present a paradox. “In a painting, books serve a very different purpose from their intended function. They are purely objects like any others, with histories and narratives of their own, quite separate from the text inside them.” Still, she says, the viewer is drawn into the painting through his or her affinity with titles, author’s names, and illustrations.

Reichelt’s earliest book paintings are of tattered vintage editions. Represented singly or in arrangements of four or five against pristine white backgrounds, they emphasize the books’ history and fragility. More recently, her paintings of shelves packed cheek-by-jowl with volumes pitched at precarious angles draw attention to our ambivalent relationship with the physical book. (“I listen to a lot of audiobooks,” she admits, “as I can do this while I paint.”) For her 2008 exhibition “Bibliomania,” she made oil-on-linen “portraits” of fellow Australian artists by painting their personal libraries. Each collection, she says, reveals the artist’s interests and inspirations. For her latest project, Reichelt has pushed the book toward pure abstraction. Last fall, she exhibited a series of bookcase paintings modeled on Piet Mondrian’s networks of primary color; each shelf is filled with books that share the same color spine. “The titles and what they represent are no longer the focus,” she explains; “rather, they act as structural tools in a bigger picture..”

Read more at PrintMag.com: The Painted Book

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WHITE HOT

Victoria’s work is featured in WHITE HOT at the Dianne Tanzer Gallery.

Opening Saturday 6 FEBRUARY, 3 – 5pm

Curated by Dianne Tanzer & Lisa Keen featuring Roy Ananda, Natasha Bieniek, Dale Cox, Sebastian Di Mauro, Daniel Dorall, Marian Drew, Vincent Fantauazzo, Juan Ford, Neil Haddon, Matthew Hunt, Louisa Jenkinson, Dane Lovett, Donna Marcus, Harry Nankin, Shaun O’Connor, Helen Pynor, Reko Rennie, Charles Robb, Natalie Ryan, Roh Singh & Ken Yonetani.

6 FEBRUARY – 27 FEBRUARY

Image: White Pages, 2010, Oil on Linen, 86.5 x 51cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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COMING SOON

WHITE HOT, Dianne Tanzer Gallery.

6 FEBRUARY – 27 FEBRUARY

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Victoria is featured in the latest issue of Vogue Living magazine.

Click on the above image to see the article or visit the Vogue Living website.

Click on image on right for larger view. (Images courtesy of Vogue Living)

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SPECTRUM

Dianne Tanzer Gallery

21 NOVEMBER – 19 DECEMBER

Opening, Saturday NOVEMBER 21st, 3 – 5pm

The exhibition Spectrum consists of a series of bookshelf paintings that sit together in a line to form a colour spectrum installation. The shapes of the shelves are modeled on Piet Mondrian’s painting from the 1920’s/30s (a series of works comprising of black lines with occasional blocks of colour, forming simple grid shapes). The paintings have the appearance of a Minimalist installation from a distance, yet function as more literal ‘realist paintings’ when viewed close up, playing with the detailed nature of the objects as they contrast with the sparse vocabulary of Minimalism. The books are disparate groups connected only by their spine colours – using them in this way echoes Minimalist concerns of form over content, whereby the books are stripped of their literary significance and reduced simply to colours. In these works, the books highlight the repetition of geometric forms through a colour spectrum, thus the titles and what they represent are no longer the focus, rather they act as structural tools in a bigger picture.

Installation photo, Spectrum, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, November, 2009 (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria’s work is featured in the latest issue of Bellemagazine.

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Victoria has won the 2009 RBS Emerging Artist Employees’ Choice Award (formerly the ABN Amro Employee’s Choice Award). The prize is non-aquisitive and consists of $2000 and a round the world ticket. RBS Tower, Phillip St, Sydney.

Finalists are on display until 30 OCTOBER 2009

Image: Spectrum, 2009, Oil on Linen, 76 x 76cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria’s work featured in the latest issue of Australian Art Collector.

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Victoria has won the 2009Melbourne Airport Innovators Award.

The award sends an artist who exhibited at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts (as a part of the Linden Innovators Program) in 2008, to the Venice Biennale in 2009.

This award is generously sponsored the Melbourne Airport.

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Victoria’s work featured in the latest issue of Creammagazine.

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Victoria is a finalist in theRBS Emerging Artist Award (formerly the ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award), curated by Susan Manford.

RBS Tower, Phillip St, Sydney

Finalists are on display 21 SEPTEMBER – 30 OCTOBER 2009

Image: Spectrum, 2009, Oil on Linen, 76 x 76cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria’s work will feature at the Poet’s & Writers magazine Summer Issue Party at the Galapogas Art Space in Brooklyn, New York.

Monday 27 JULY 2009 (6:30–11pm)

Image: Galapogas Art Space, New York

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COMING SOON

Victoria’s upcoming solo exhibition Spectrum opens 21 NOVEMBER at the

Dianne Tanzer Gallery.

Image: Yellow Fever, 2009, Oil on Linen, 81 x 81cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria’s work is featured in Sustain at the Australia Council for the Arts in Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills. The exhibition showcases works from Artbank collection of artists who have been recent beneficiaries of Australia Council Grants.

Show runs until 27 NOVEMBER 2009

Image: Collapse, 2008, Oil on Canvas, 44 x 120cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria’s work is featured in Spectrum at the acga@federation square.

Curated by Lisa Keen featuring Chris Bond, Danie Mellor, Harry Nankin, Selina Ou, Polixeni Papapetrou, Trent Parke, Britt Salt, Kate Shaw & Michael Zavros.

16 JUNE  – 12 JULY 2009

Installation photo: Spectrum, acga@federation square, June, 2009

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Victoria has won the $10,000 People’s Choice Prize in the Metro Art Award.

Metro Gallery, Melbourne.

Finalists on display until 5 JULY 2009

Image: Self Portrait, 2009, Oil on Linen, 110 x 110cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria’s work featured in the July/August issue of New York Poets & Writersmagazine.

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Victoria is featured in the latest issue of Marie Claire magazine in conjunction with the Red Exhibitionand auction at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation.

(Click on above image for larger view. Images courtesy of Marie Claire)

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Victoria’s work is featured in Fresh Paint at the Dianne Tanzer Gallery,

2 MAY – 23 MAY 2009

Installation photo: Fresh Paint, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, May, 2009.( Image courtesy of Andrew Noble)

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Victoria is a finalist in the 2009 Metro Art Award.

Metro Gallery, Melbourne

The Metro Art Award, held annually, is the richest art award for Australian painters under 35.

10 JUNE – 5 JULY 2009

Image: Self Portrait, 2009, Oil on Linen, 110 x 110cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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BID FOR AN ARTWORK IN THE MARIE CLAIRE ART AUCTION!

Victoria’s work Retrophilia (Red Bag) (pictured) is available to purchase through Marie Claire’s art auction until 14 MAY 2009. The work is currently featured in the Red Exhibition at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation and in the latest issue of Marie Claire magazine. The exhibition and auction are presented by Marie Claire and Art & Australia. All works sold raise vital funds for the Heart Foundation. (BIDDING HAS NOW ENDED)

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Victoria is featured in the article Dianne Tanzer Gallery in the April/May issue of Art World magazine.

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Still Life 1930s – Present

Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD

14 FEBRUARY – 29 MARCH 2009

Images: Le Flash, 2009, oil on linen, 130 x 100cm & L’Objectif, 2009, oil on linen, 130 x 100cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria’s painting Snowdomes that is currently being exhibited in Contemporary Australia: Optimism has been acquired by the Gallery of Modern Art/Queensland Art Gallery.

Image, Snowdomes, 2007, Oil on Canvas, 143 x 70cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria is exhibiting in Contemporary Australia: Optimism.

Contemporary Australia: Optimism is the first in a major new national triennial series of thematic contemporary Australian art exhibitions at the Gallery Modern Art in Brisbane.

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

15 NOVEMBER – 22 FEBRUARY 2008

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Victoria a finalist in 2008 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award

Campbeltown Regional Gallery.

2 NOVEMBER – 24 NOVEMBER 2008

Images: Retrophilia (Calculator), 2007, Oil on Canvas, 80 x 80cm & Retrophilia (Typewriter), 2007, Oil on Canvas, 80 x 80cm  (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Dr Jess Berry’s article Bibliomania: The Paintings of Victoria Reichelt features in the August issue of Art Monthly.

Click here to read article

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Bibliomania: The Bookshelf Portrait Project

Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne

15 AUGUST – 14 SEPTEMBER 2008

(This project is generously supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Installation photo, Bibliomania: The Bookshelf Portrait Project, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, August, 2008)

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Fran Molloy’s article Minuscule Details about Victoria features in the latest issue of Vive Magazine.

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Victoria’s paintings Collapse and Ex Libris, currently featured in the Melbourne Art Fair have been acquired by Artbank.

Image: Ex Libris, 2008, Oil on Canvas, 44 x 120cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria’s work featured in the latest issue of Artist Profile magazine.

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Victoria is exhibiting at the Melbourne Art Fair 2008

Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

The Melbourne Art Fair is the leading art fair and public exposition of contemporary visual art in Australia, featuring more than 80 selected galleries from Australia, USA, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea & China.

30 JULY – 3 AUGUST

Installation photo, Melbourne Art Fair, July, 2008  (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria’s work featured in the latest issue of Australian Art Collector.

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Victoria’s work featured in the latest issue of Art World magazine.

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Victoria’s work featured in the July/August issue of Vogue Living magazine.

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COMING UP IN 2008

Victoria is representing the Dianne Tanzer Gallery at the Melbourne Art Fair opening JULY 30, and her solo exhibition Bibliomania: The Bookshelf Portrait Project opens AUGUST 14 at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts.

Photo: Melbourne Art Fair, 2008

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Victoria’s work featured in the March/April issue of Inside Out magazine.

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Collections, Schubert Contemporary, QLD.

OPENING 7 DECEMBER 2007

Image: Suitcases, 2007, Oil on Canvas, 110 x 165cm

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Victoria featured in article ‘Bright Young Things‘ in the Nov/Dec issue of Vogue Living.

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Victoria’s work featured in the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Out magazine.

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Victoria’s work is featured in the ARC Art, Design & Craft Biennial.

QUT Art Museum, Brisbane

OPENING 12 OCTOBER 2007

Image: Retrophilia (Red Bag), 2007, Oil on Canvas, 80 x 80cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria has been awarded a $10,000 New Work Grant from the Australia Council Visual Arts Board for an exhibition to be held at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, in late 2008.

Image: L’armees de trois 2007, Oil on Canvas, 130 x 130cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Victoria is a finalist in the RIPE Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award. Her work has also been distinguished as Highly Commended by the judges on Art & Australia’s advisory board.

See NAVA website for details and full shortlist

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ARC Art, Craft & Design Biennial, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.

OCTOBER 2007

Image: Retrophilia (Calculator), 2007, Oil on Canvas, 80 x 80cm (courtesy of Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne)

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Idiosyncrasy: Paintings & Sculptures

Johnston Gallery, Perth.

3 MAY – 27 MAY 2007

(Image, Optiscope, 2007, Oil on Canvas, 105 x 105cm)

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Victoria’a profiled in latest issue of Australian Art Review

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Victoria’a featured in the April issue of Vogue Magazine

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Victoria’s paintings Film Noir and Monumenta, currently featured in the exhibition Focus at the Dianne Tanzer Gallery, have been acquired by Artbank.

(Image, Monumenta, 2007, Oil on Canvas, 100 x 100cm)

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Victoria’a exhibition Focus reviewed in the latest issue of Cream Magazine

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Focus, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.

14 APRIL – 12 MAY 2007

For the exhibition Focus, I am making paintings of antique cameras and film equipment set against stark black and white backgrounds. I am painting cameras, which with the invention of photography were once perceived as a threat to the medium of painting. The cameras I am using however, are antiques and have themselves been made redundant, superseded by new technologies and relegated to the realm of beautiful collector’s items. In drawing painting and photography together in this way, these works set out to explore the ongoing tension between the two media and the ever-changing balance of power between the two ways of making images.

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Victoria’a featured in the April/May issue of  Frankie Magazine.

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N&A Present Four Painters, ARK Atlier, Brisbane.

14 FEBRUARY – 29 MARCH 2009

(Image, Camera Shy, 2007, Oil on Canvas, 20 x 30cm)

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Painting 2007

John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour.

27 JANUARY – 17 FEBRUARY 2007

(Image, Konica Pop, 2007, Oil on Canvas, 70 x 70cm)

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Interchange

Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD

NOVEMBER 2006

(Installation photo, Interchange, November, 2006)

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Gadens Top Ten Exhibition, Gadens Lawyers, Brisbane.

NOVEMBER 2006

(Image, Film Noir, 2006, Oil on Canvas, 100 x 100cm)

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Victoria has won the $10,000 Kenilworth Art Prize

Finalists on display until SEPTEMBER 2006

(Image, The Grass is Greener, 2006, Oil on Canvas, 58.2 x 90.5cm)

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Victoria is a finalist in the Fletcher Jones Art Prize.

Geelong Gallery, VIC

SEPTEMBER 2006

(Image, Le Chambre Noir, 2006, Oil on Canvas, 130 x 130cm)

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The Reading Room

John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour.

OCTOBER 2005

(Installation photo, The Reading Room, John Gordon Gallery, October, 2005)

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Victoria is featured in Peter Hill’s article ‘The Return to Painting‘ in

The Age, 27 – 28 AUGUST 2005

Click here to read the article.

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Victoria profiled in Art Gallery Guide Australia September/October 2005

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Library, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.

AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2005

(Image, The Irish Boy, 2005, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30cm)

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Bathroom Painting/Library Paintings, Schubert Contemporary, QLD

AUGUST 2005

(Image, The Fall of Eagles, 2005, Oil on Canvas, 86 x 86cm)

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Books & Bags (Linda Ault & Victoria Reichelt), Metro Arts, Brisbane.

JULY 2005

(Image, Library II, 2005, Oil on Canvas, 50 x 50cm)

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Covered, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra.

APRIL 2005

(Image, Edna Ferber, 2005, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30cm)

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Victoria is a finalist in the 2005 Metro Art Award.

Metro Gallery, Melbourne

The Metro Art Award is the richest art award for Australian painters under 35.

FEBRUARY 2005

(Image, Crime Collection, 2004, Oil on Canvas, 180 x 60cm)