I am really pleased to be inviting you to my new exhibition of photographic works at Tacit Art in Abbotsford. Kmiec’s “Veil” series is contemplative and meditative. Through laboriously repeated physical movements, Kmieć creates striking long-exposure photographs layered with vibrant compositions of colour. These colours are not chosen at random; they are deeply connected to…
#NeighbourhoodWatch explores and tests our imagination and memory of familiar places, through a series of photo works that are temporarily installed on Greensborough walk. Through her camera lens, Banyule resident and photographic artist Aldona Kmieć records the familiar architecture of Greensborough streets in a series of tightly cropped frames, pushing the subject and its meaning…
BSG Fifty Squared Art Prize 22 June–5 July I’m pleased to have one smaller work from the Winterbloom series exhibited at this year’s prize, showcasing the work of over 550 artists practicing throughout Australia and beyond. The exhibition collection is expansive, featuring hundreds of artworks encompassing painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, weaving and more.…
Super stoked to be a finalist at 2024 CLIP Award at Perth Centre for Photography. 2024 Contemporary Landscapes in Photography (CLIP) Award, is PCP’s biennial award for contemporary urban, natural, and conceptual landscape photography. The exhibition will open on Friday 12 July 2024 and winners will be announced at the opening event. Judges: the 2024…
NEXT Open Artist Studio Day Saturday 18 May, 2024 GASWORKS ARTS PARK 21 Graham St, Albert Park VIC 3206 9am – 1.30pm Gasworks is a vibrant an arts precinct with around 15 artists studios including painters, textiles, ceramicists, sculptors and photography. Great atmosphere with farmers market open from 8am, cafe and live music, and it’s…
Exhibition Opening Invitation Tuesday 23 April 6.30-8pm @ Loft 275 Gallery, ILCH Please join eight Heidelberg & Banyule artists for a celebratory group exhibition opening at Loft 275 Gallery in Ivanhoe. Drawings were created using raw and experimental techniques based on the nude, created during an intensive life drawing development workshop facilitated by artist Felicity Gordon.…
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been selected for a short-term Gasworks Arts Park Studio Residency program, a professional development opportunity to incubate my new project during a 3-month residency on site. Regular Open Studio days are on 3rd Saturday of every month, but you can also visit me at other times (by appointment), best to follow news on my…
Recently, I had a lovely opportunity to talk to Darek Buchowiecki from SBS Radio about my Melbourne solo exhibition at the LOFT 275 Gallery. You can listen to our conversation in Polish here.
Please join me for my new Solo Exhibition featuring my new Winterbloom artworks as well as an inaugural series of pigment/silicone paintings inspired by Winterbloom photographs. Official exhibition opening on Friday 2 February 2024, 6.30-8pm. Exhibition runs until Feb 18, 2024. LOFT 275 GALLERY | Ivanhoe Library and Cultural Hub, 275 Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe…
I’m delighted to announce that my work Winterbloom #34 is one of the Award Winners at this year’s Linden Postcard Show in St Kilda. I am very grateful for the recognition and support. This year’s exhibition runs from 10 December 2023 to 11 February 2024. Artworks are available for purchase both online & in gallery.…
Head On festival is Australia’s premier photography event and a world-leading arts festival and I’m very honoured to have my portrait chosen as a Finalist at this year’s Head On Portrait Award in Sydney. This is my2nd time as a Finalist in this award, huge congratulations to all finalists!! https://headon.org.au/exhibitions/head-on-portrait-awards-2023 Dates: 11 Nov 2023 – 03 Dec…
Polish Art Foundation’s Contemporary Drawing Biennale 2023, No Vacancy Gallery I feel very honoured to be selected to the Contemporary Drawing Biennale 2023. No Vacancy Gallery 34-40 Jane Bell Lane, Melbourne Official opening 19 October at 7pm Exhibition dates 16 – 22 October 2023 More info at www.polishartfoundation.org.au Hope to see you there!
Echoes of a Gaze, invites artists to capture and create a representation of a subject matter in the form of portraiture art. The exhibition will showcase the intimate dialogue between viewer and subject through visual communication and will offer insight into their surroundings. Critical to our understanding of ideologies of story telling, through the eyes of…
I’m stoked to be a finalist of 2023 Nyland Photography Prize for my portrait of Kartie below. This work is on exhibition at Royal Society of Arts South Australia, Adelaide Artist Statement Today, still thousands of refugees who arrived in Australia by boat have been denied visas. This includes children. Without a path to residency and…
10TH BALLARAT INTERNATIONAL FOTO BIENNALE Featuring highly credentialed artists working in a range of genres including fine art, photojournalism, commercial, documentary, and alternate process, The Real Thing celebrates the expertise and thriving communities of practising photographers in regional Victoria. I feel very honoured to be selected to exhibit at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 10th edition, showing…
Winterbloom, 10th Ballarat International Foto Biennale Aldona Kmieć invites us to explore the boundaries of our own imaginations and to embrace the power of creativity in her new series, Winterbloom. These fluid and bright photographs were made in the depths of winter during COVID-19 as an act of creative rebellion. Aldona used a freedom of colour…
Australia’s largest photomedia competition, the CCP Summer Salon will be on exhibition in the gallery from opening night, Friday 25 November, to Sunday 18 December. The exhibition is in its 30th year of running. Hope to see you at the opening! Exhibition Dates November 25 – 18 December, 2022 Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) 404 George St, Fitzroy…
Add On Group Show Dates: 5 Nov 2022 – 20 Nov 2022 Location: Yalagang room at Bondi Pavilion Queen Elizabeth Drive Bondi Beach NSW 2026 Australia Entry Fee: Free Genres: Fashion, Fine-Art, Landscape/Travel, Mobile, Other, Photojournalism/Documentary, Portrait AddOn is a non-competitive, anonymous, photographic exhibition curated by Charles McKean and Festival Director Moshe Rosenzveig OAM. One of the…
Please join me for the opening of Polish Art Foundation Borders exhibition at Victorian Artists Society, East Melbourne on Saturday 29th October, 7pm start. This exhibition features artists working with a wide range of mediums to offer a conceptual bridge between opposite sides of the borderline by approaching it from a personal, social, political, or…
Please join me for the opening of Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women announcement at Brightspace Gallery in St Kilda, Melbourne from 6.30pm Thursday 1st of September. This prize honours the American born photographer, Maggie Diaz; is open to photographs by all Australian and International women. The theme is open and photographers must use available light.