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Grants, art prize and exhibiting in NZ at last!
A few months have passed without any art news updates to feed my blog. Let me see … I have been travelling – Austria, Ireland and Texas,...


Exhibition news
I am very happy to announce that I have a solo exhibition at Artereal gallery in Sydney, December 6 – 28. Still coming up with a...


Finalist in Corangamarah art prize
Claude Jones, Dirty Laundry, 2016, mixed media on paper, 79 x 117 cm A new work, “Dirty laundry” is one of 26 finalist works to be...


2016 National Works on Paper
Claude Jones, Hare Brain, 2016, mixed media on paper, 92 x 143.5 cm I was jumping about with excitement when I recieved an email...


Back in Sydney
I am so excited to have been offered a position as sessional screenprint teacher at The National Art School in Sydney. This was the first...


“Feral” standing proud
“Mythology of my Land” opened at M-Contemporary gallery in Woollahra, Sydney last weekend and is on until the end of May. The Peculiar...


Peculiar Annes installation at “Hidden”
Just to re-cap a bit on an earlier post, the Peculiar Annes are a collaborative artist group formed in May this year. We are Janet...


Peculiar Annes and their little “Seraph”
We got in! The very first sculpture completed by “Peculiar Annes” collaboration (Janet Parker-Smith, Cleo Gardiner and myself – Claude...


Finalist in Flanagan Art exhibition
My most recent work on paper , “Show bully” will be exhibited in this years Flanagan Art Exhibition at St Patricks College in Ballarat,...


Finalist – Clifton’s Art Prize
I am excited that I am a finalist in this years Clifton’s Art Prize! Clifton’s is an annual art prize held across countries in the Asia...


Scope galleries – Art concerning the environment
I heard of Scope galleries in Warrnambool, Victoria, through a good friend who has undertaken an artist residency in that part of...


Wildlife art symposium and exhibition
I think it was in March that I stumbled across an invitation for artists to enter work for an exhibition in Canberra called Wildlife...


Hunter Hill Art Prize
This year was actually the first I heard of the “Hunters Hill Art Prize” which is now in it’s 60th year running! I discovered that...
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