Aldona Kmiec-Gasworks Art Open Studio

Artist Studio Residency @ Gasworks

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…

Winterbloom Loft 275 Gallery Aldona Kmieć

Winterbloom exhibition – Loft 275 Gallery Ivanhoe

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…

Linden Postcard Show 2023-2024

Linden Postcard Show 2023-2024

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 2023

Head On Portrait Award – finalist

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…

Memories, how to forget them framed artwork

Polish Art Foundation – No Vacancy Gallery

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 exhibition

Brunswick Street Gallery

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…

Nyland Photography Prize 2023 Erased Kartie in her room in Ballarat

Finalist 2023 Nyland Photography Prize

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

The Real Thing – Ballarat Foto Biennale 2023

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 #11 Artwork Aldona Kmieć

Winterbloom – Ballarat Foto Biennale 2023

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…

CCP Summer Salon 2022 wall Melbourne

CCP Summer Salon 2022

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…

HEAD ON Photo Festival Sydney Add On Group Show

Head On Festival 2022

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…

Standstill artwork PAF Polish Art Foundation Melbourne exhibition Borders

Polish Art Foundation – Borders exhibition

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…

Maggie Diaz Photography Prize finalist 2022

Maggie Diaz Photography Prize 2022

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.

Focus on Country Vic SLV Exhibition

State of Change: Regional & rural stories of 2020

State of Change: Regional & rural stories of 2020 is a State Library Victoria photo exhibition documenting the year that was 2020 in regional Victoria through a local lens. What are the unique issues facing our communities? What do our communities hope for and how will recent events shape the future? The events of 2020…

2022 Banyule Art Salon exhibition

Banyule Art Salon 2022

If Covid lockdowns have taught us anything, it’s that we have a renewed appreciation for our outdoor spaces. Our daily walks kept us sane, as we escaped our homes for brief adventures outside. This exhibition is dedicated to the great outdoors – an artistic exploration of nature, open space, parks, recreation, plants, wildlife, anything “outside…

2020 ILFORD CCP Salon supported by Milieu' Exhibition Melbourne

2020 ILFORD CCP Salon

You’re cordially invited to visit a group exhibition 2020 ILFORD CCP Salon supported by Milieu at CCP Centre for Contemporary Photography in Fitzroy, Melbourne where I have my work on show. The exhibition of over 800 works (!) is a survey of photographic community’s work through 2020, and is exhibited both online ccp.org.au and in…

Balancing Act pregnant mother Eureka Art Award 2020

Eureka Art Award 2020

Ballarat Arts Foundation is celebrating 20th Year Celebrations this year. As part of the celebrations, there will be a launch of The Eureka Art Award 2020. Ballarat Arts Foundation will be announcing the winning work during the function, with the 2020 judge being Fiona Sweet, Director of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale. Launch – 6pm,…

Polish Art Foundation Vibes Exhibition Invite Melbourne exhibition

Polish Art Foundation Exhibition

Polish Art Exhibition “Vibes” or “Klimaty” (in Polish language) is an art exhibition featuring 27 artists interpreting a broad theme from ecological musings to personal feelings surrounding our very existence. “When we (Polish Art Foundation or PAF) sat around our usual meeting table late last year, we could not have imagined how poignant our theme…