The Commercial | Augusta Vinall Richardson news

» 01/11/2024: Augusta Vinall Richardson features in the just released book of the Celine Art Project collection, curated by Hedi Slimane. Slimane was the creative, artistic and image director of the leading French fashion house 2018 — 2024. The 500-page book features a double page spread of each artist in the collection arranged alphabetically and is an edition of 500, exclusively gifted to celebrities and VIP clients of Celine.
» 01/10/2024: Augusta Vinall Richardson is exhibiting a major new sculpture in the inaugural Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: The Burden of Objects at Villa Alba Museum, 44 Walmer Street, Kew. Augusta is giving an artist talk Sunday 13.10.24 at 1pm. Exhibition 09.10.24 — 13.10.24, 10am — 5pm.
» 09/09/2024: Augusta Vinall Richardson's bronze wall sculpture, Tumbling, trying to, has been shortlisted for the 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize at Woollahra Art Gallery. Exhibition: 13.09.24 — 20.10.24.
» 06/06/2024: Augusta Vinall Richardson's bronze wall sculpture, Floating, was acquired by The Celine Art Project and installed in the recently opened Celine Gold Coast Pacific Fair store designed by Hedi Slimane.
» 01/05/2024: Augusta Vinall Richardson has been shortlisted for the 2024 National Works on Paper exhibition at Mornington Penninsula Regional Gallery. The $20,000 acquisitive prize is announced 31.08.24 with exhibition continuing until 24.11.24. Judges of this year’s prize are: Dunja Rmandic (Curator – Exhibitions MPRG), Erica Green (Director, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia), Lisa Waup (artist and 2022 NWOP finalist), Trent Walter (Director, Negative Press).
» 29/01/2024: The Commercial looks forward to exhibiting at Melbourne Art Fair 21 — 25 February, 2024, with a two-person exhibition by Diena Georgetti and Augusta Vinall Richardson. In addition to our booth presention, Jazz Money has been invited by guest curator Shelley McSpedden to create a new neon text work for BEYOND that will occupy the central piazza area of the fair. The Commerical — Booth C1. Contact the gallery for early preview of works.
» 18/10/2023: Augusta Vinall Richardson has a solo exhibition TEMPLATE / SKETCH at Caves, Melbourne, opening Friday 20.10.23, 6 — 8pm. The exhibition consists of studies for future sculptures in metals. The exhibition opening coincides with the launch of the publication TEMPLATES which is an edited transcript of recorded conversations between Vinall Richardson and fellow artist Rose Nolan that took place between May — August 2023. The publication has been designed by Yanni Florence, is an edition of 200 and is available from Caves, a not for profit organisation.
» 18/08/2023: Augusta Vinall Richardson is presenting work in her first institutional exhibition opening tonight at La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo. The exhibition is curated by Amelia Wallin. “This is an exhibition about artistic impact and the different ways it can be felt, as history, memory, tranference and affect. Using Inge King’s modernist sculpture ‘Dialogue of circles’ as a beginning point, the exhibition radiates outwards, inviting artistic input of contemporary sculptors, dancers, performance and visual artists, and artists working in the public realm, who each pay particular attention to the thresholds where the body meets the rest of the world.” Artists include Diana Baker Smith, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Dean Cross, Zoë Croggon, Narelle Desmond, Inge King, Augusta Vinall Richardson, Emily Floyd, Sriwhana Spong. View on The Commercial website. Exhibition: 18.08.23 — 05.11.23
» 03/08/2023: Augusta Vinall Richardson is exhibiting a new sculpture in the group exhibition, Surface edge, curated by Darcey Bella Arnold, at Sutton Projects, Melbourne. exhibition 05.08.23 — 26.08.23.
» 27/07/2023: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary 07.09.23 — 10.09.23. We will be presenting a group exhibition in Booth F16 with works by Archie Moore, Augusta Vinall Richardson, Jazz Money, Jude Rae and Mitch Cairns. Please contact the gallery via this link to receive advanced preview of works.
» 20/03/2023: It is a pleasure to announce that The Commercial is now representing Augusta Vinall Richardson. Augusta Vinall Richardson (b. 1991, l. Naarm/Melbourne) works with sheet and cast metals in the production of abstract composite sculptures that activate both the private and public domains. She has exhibited widely in commercial and artist-run-initiatives. In 2022, Vinall Richardson was awarded a Master of Fine Art by Monash University, Melbourne. As part of her undergraduate studies at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, she undertook an exchange semester at Gerrit Reitveld Academie in Amsterdam. She exhibited in the group exhibition LIGHTMOVING at The Commercial in 2022. It is a great pleasure to welcome Augusta to the gallery.
» 01/03/2023: Augusta Vinall Richardson has been shortlisted for the biennial Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art. The $20,000 acquisitive prize is being judged this year by Melissa Keys, Hanna Presley and Jason Smith. Montsalvat's Barn Gallery, Melbourne. Announced 20.04.23.
» 13/02/2023: Augusta Vinall Richardson has co-curated with Angela Brennan a one weekend exhibition of outdoor sculpture, Sculpture thinking thinking sculpture, at Branching Universe Gallery, Melbourne. Artists include Isabella Besen, Aaron Carter, Emily Floyd, John Lim, Chris Madden, Anne-Marie May, Elvis Richardson, Augusta Vinall Richardson. Exhibition 18.02.23 — 19.02.23.
» 17/12/2022: LIGHTMOVING final week special hours. The Commercial will be open special hours for the final week of 2022. Wednesday 21.12.22 — Friday 23.12.22 inclusive, 11 — 4. We hope you can visit to see this group exhibition with works by Augusta Vinall Richardson, Jazz Money and Mitch Cairns.
» 08/12/2022: Concurrent with her work in LIGHTMOVING at The Commercial, Augusta Vinall Richardson is exhibiting in Atoms and Passions with Angela Brennan, Madeline Simm and Augusta Vinall Richardson, at Chauffeur Gallery, Sydney. Exhibition: 08.12.22 — 21.12.22