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» 10/06/2024: UNSW Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition by Lillian O'Neil: The light that spills across the ground between shadows. The exhibition is curated by Director José Da Silva, giving Sydney audiences the chance to see O'Neil's recent large scale analogue collages in the wake of the 2024 Adelaide Biennial at the Art Gallery of South Australia. UNSW Gallery exhibition: 28.06.24 — 08.09.24.
» 24/01/2024: Jazz Money and Lillian O'Neil are exhibiting in the 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum, curated by José Da Silva, at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Exhibition: 01.03.24 — 02.06.24.
» 06/09/2023: Jazz Money and Lillian O'Neil have been announced as exhibiting artists in the 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum, curated by José Da Silva. Presented throughout all spaces of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Exhibition dates 01.03.24 — 02.06.24.
» 28/09/2022: Lillian O’Neil is exhibiting in Unpopular at Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. “Unpopular draws on the never-before-seen archive of music promoter, record company founder and entrepreneur Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic, taking audiences behind-the-scenes of the alternative music scene in the 1990s”. Pavlovic invited O'Neil to work with his archive, from which she has drawn upon photographic material as well as fan mail in the production of three major new collages. exhibition 27.10.22 — 03.06.23.
» 15/11/2021: An indepth profile on Lillian O'Neil by James Mcardle on the occasion of O'Neil being awarded the 2021 Bowness Photography Prize. On this date in photography website link.
» 12/11/2021: Congratulations to Lillian O’Neil, announced last night as the winner of the 2021 Bowness Photography Prize at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne. The $30,000 acquisitive prize was awarded by judges Del Kathryn Barton (artist), Anouska Phizacklea (Director Monash Gallery of Art) and Karen Quinlan AM (Director National Portrait Gallery, Canberra). O’Neil’s analogue collage, Drawing to a close, was selected from over 730 entries and 52 shortlisted works. The Bowness Prize exhibition continues at Monash Gallery of Art until 05/12/21.
» 10/08/2021: Geelong Gallery has commissioned Lillian O’Neil to create a new large scale collage for its foyer wall. Evening (2021) will be on display 10/08/21 - 17/10/21. The project has been supported through Creative Victoria’s COVID-19 Strategic Investment Fund.
» 29/07/2021: Congratulations to Lillian O'Neil for being shortlisted for the 2021 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize at Monash Gallery of Art with her collage, Drawing to a close (2020). The $30,000 prize is in its 16th year. exhibition dates 09/09/21 - 07/11/21 in gallery and online. The judging panel this year is comprised of artist, Del Kathryn Barton, Director of National Portrait Gallery, Karen Quinlan, and MGA Director, Anouska Phizacklea.
» 18/02/2021: Lillian O'Neil and Amanda Williams have been commissioned to make outdoor works for PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography: The Truth, 2021, Melbourne. The festival commences 18/02/21 (postponed from 2020 due to covid interruptions). O'Neil's work is located in University Square, Parkville Station precinct (corner Grattan and Leicester Streets, Carlton). Williams' work is located at Royal Botanic Gardens, Anzac Station precinct (near intersection of Albert and Domain Roads).
» 08/07/2020: It is a pleasure to announce that Lillian O’Neil’s Compound Falls (2019) has been acquired by the Sir Elton John Collection.
» 21/02/2020: Lillian O'Neil will be exhibiting a major new work at the National Gallery of Australia as part of the exhibition, The Body Electric opening next month. "The Body Electric draws together both photo-based and video work made by female-identifying artists on the subject of sex, pleasure and desire." Artists include: Polly Borland (USA/Aus), Lynda Benglis (US), Pat Brassington (Aus), Nan Goldin (USA), Claire Lambe (Aus), Annette Messager (France), Tracey Moffatt (Aus), Momo Okabe (Japan), Lillian O’Neil (Aus), Fiona Pardington (NZ), Carolee Schneemann (USA), Collier Schorr (USA), and Cindy Sherman (USA). Exhibition: 28/03/20 - 20/09/20.
» 04/12/2019: Lillian O’Neil and Amanda Williams announced as exhibiting artists in the inaugural PHOTO 2020 International Festival of Photography 23/04/20 - 10/05/20 taking place in multiple venues across Melbourne and regional Victoria.
» 25/11/2019: Congratulations to Lillian O'Neil one of twelve artists shortlisted for the National Photography Prize 2020. The $30,000 acquisitive prize exhibition at Murray Art Museum Albury opens 21/02/20, winner announced 01/05/20. The exhibition is part of PHOTO 2020, a new international festival of photography.
» 05/08/2019: Lillian O'Neil and Amanda Williams are shortlisted for the 2019 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award. The exhibition opens and the winners announced at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery on Friday 20/09/19, 6-8pm. Exhibition 21/09/19 - 17/11/19.
» 08/07/2019: Lillian O’Neil is presenting Dawn, a solo Ideas Platform exhibition at Artspace, Sydney. "I took the Ideas Platform as an opportunity to experiment with scanning an archive of Australian women’s magazines held by the State Library of Victoria, material that I couldn’t cut up. My interest lies in the photography of cultural histories and the materiality of obsolete print technologies. The magazines I looked at spanned ‘The Dawn’ 1888-1905, to 'Australian Women’s Forum’ 1991 -2001.” opening Thursday 11/07/19, 6-8pm. exhibition: 12/07/19 - 04/08/19.
» 25/05/2019: Lillian O'Neil is presenting a group of collages in Caught Stealing, an exhibition of 19 artists curated by Dr Jaime Tsai at NAS Gallery, Sydney. The exhibition explores appropriation as a conceptual device. Artists include Hany Armanious, Destiny Deacon, Fiona Hall, Shane Haseman, Andrew Hurle, Soda_Jerk, Tom Nicholson, Daniel Boyd, Joan Ross and Marian Tubbs. It will be the largest body of O'Neil's work seen outside a solo exhibition to date with works dating from 2013 to 2019. exhibition dates: 14/06/19 - 10/08/19.
» 15/02/2019: 'Micro Macro: Lillian O'Neil' - interview with Lillian O'Neil by Louise Martin Chew in Issue 25 Vault - Australasian Art & Culture. Out now.
» 13/02/2019: At the conclusion of her three-month Youkobo Y-AIR Studio Program residency in Tokyo, Lillian O'Neil is presenting a short studio exhibition at Youkobo Art Space. There will be an artist talk at 5pm 22/02/19 with drinks reception from 6pm. Studio-3. Exhibition dates: 20/02/19 - 24/02/19. Lillian's Tokyo residency is supported by Asialink/The University of Melbourne. Further details on Youkobo Art Space website.
» 11/12/2018: Announced today by Artspace Sydney, Lillian O'Neil will present a solo project exhibition for Artspace's Ideas Platform in July 2019. She will work with archive material from the National Library of Australia to create a new body of work.
» 07/09/2018: The Commercial looks forward to presenting an exhibition of major new cast concrete and stainless steel sculptures by Bonita Bub and monumental collages by Lillian O'Neil at Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, 13/09/18 - 16/09/18. Booth E19. The gallery will be open by appointment only for the duration of the fair. Request preview of works being exhibited at the fair.
» 23/02/2018: Asialink have announced their 2018 Creative Exchanges, with Lillian O’Neil as the recipient of a studio residency at Youkobo Art Space, in Japan. Since 1991, Asialink Arts has supported 822 residencies throughout the Asian region. Encompassing all art forms and practices, the Residency Program has been generously funded by program supporters. Lillian O’Neil is supported by Creative Victoria.
» 17/08/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Lillian O'Neil's monumental collage, Mirage (2017) exhibited in O'Neil exhibition Escape Velocity earlier this year has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
» 30/06/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Lillian O'Neil's 2017 diptych, Standing Stones, has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia.
» 01/06/2016: Lillian O'Neil has been awarded a two year studio residency at the Gasworks Arts Park in South Melbourne, administered by the City of Port Phillip.
» 25/08/2015: The Commercial is exhibiting for the second consecutive year at the biennial Sydney Contemporary art fair, 10/09/15-13/09/15, at Carriageworks. It will present a group exhibition in the Current Contemporary section - Booth A01 - with all new works by Mitch Cairns, Diena Georgetti, Emily Hunt, Narelle Jubelin, Clare Milledge, Lillian O'Neil and Robert Pulie. In addition to the gallery's stand, Stephen Ralph has been selected for the Installation Contemporary section, curated by The Curators' Department (Glenn Barkley, Ivan Muñiz Reed and Holly Williams). A large group of Ralph's cast concrete sculptures will be exhibited. Information about fair opening hours and tickets for opening night is available on the Sydney Contemporary website.
» 29/10/2014: It is a pleasure to announce that Lillian O'Neil's work The Lonely Isle has been acquired by Artbank.
» 26/10/2014: Lillian O'Neil's monumental collage, The Lonely Isle, currently on exhibition at Artspace, Sydney, as part of the 2014 NSW Visual Artists Fellowship (Emerging), will be be shown at The Commercial as a single-work exhibition (as originally intended by the artist). It will be the focus of our end of year closing drinks on Friday 19/12/14 and will continue on exhibition when the galley reopens on Wednesday 14/01/15 until early February. The Lonely Isle is O'Neil's largest work to date and has been acquired by Artbank. It is the first work of O'Neil's acquired by a public collection.
» 04/07/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Lillian O'Neil are two of twelve finalists selected for the 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging). The 2014 presentation of the Fellowship will see the exhibition at Artspace, Sydney, transformed from a presentation of individual works to an exhibition that is supported by curatorial development and dialogue. In her inaugural curatorial role at Artspace, recently appointed Executive Director Alexie Glass-Kantor will co-curate the exhibition in collaboration with Sam Zammit, Artspace Curator of Programs and curator of the 2013 iteration of the NSW Fellowship. The winner will be awarded the fellowship (valued at $30,000) on the opening night of the exhibition, determined by a panel of peers.
» 20/06/2014: The Commercial is excited in anticipation of its first presentation at Melbourne Art Fair in the Royal Exhibition Building from 13/08/14 - 17/08/14. Presented by the Melbourne Art Foundation, a not for profit organisation, Melbourne Art Fair is one of Australasia’s longest running contemporary art events. For 25 years the Fair has stimulated critical and commercial attention for galleries and their artists directly contributing to the livelihood of living artists. The Commercial will present a group exhibition in the MAF Galleries sector. Collector's passes and tickets to the opening night Vernissage on Wednesday 13 August, 6-10pm are available on the Melbourne Art Fair website.
» 11/05/2014: Lillian O'Neil is presenting two major new collages and a series of seven lightboxes for Isle of Somewhere, a two-person exhibition with Laura Delaney at Melbourne's West Space, an artist-run initiative of which Lillian is a former Programming Committee Member (2009-2011). The exhibition opens Thursday 15/05/14, 6-8pm and runs until 14/06/14.
» 17/02/2014: The March issue of Vogue Australia is devoted to "great Australian artists, the meaning of art in our lives, and, of course, its intrinsic link with fashion.” A number of artists from The Commercial feature by name and in image. In the 'Critic's Choice' article (pp. 161-166) Agatha Gothe-Snape, Gail Hastings, Archie Moore and Lillian O'Neil are nominated in profiles of respected art consultants, Mark Hughes and Amanda Love and collectors James Roland and Becky Sparks. On newstands now.
» 04/11/2013: Lillian O'Neil has been nominated as one of twenty artists in 'The Next Generation' in the December issue of New York's Architectural Digest, nominated by Mark Hughes.
» 09/10/2013: Lillian O'Neil is exhibiting in an exhibition of international collage, In the Cut, curated by Hannah Matthews at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (ACCA). O'Neil's monumental 2012 work, Attack of the Romance, has been selected for the show. In the Cut brings together 16 artists to look at how collage has been employed over the past two decades to question the political and social status quo, manipulate existing narratives, and challenge conventional distinctions between art forms. Artists in the exhibition include: Ellen Gallagher, Richard Larter, Linder Sterling, Elizabeth Newman, David Maljkovic, Henning Bohl, Tom Burr, Nikolas Gambaroff, Matthew Griffin, Mathew Hale, Ry Haskings, Henrik Olesen, Lillian O’Neil, Lia Perjovschi, Amanda Ross-Ho, Kelley Walker. Exhibition dates: 10/10/13 - 24/11/13.
» 19/04/2013: Lillian O'Neil is exhibiting in a group show, Pantone 705 C, at The Mews Project in London. The exhibition uses Pantone colour 705 C as a device to physically bind the artworks together and to create a broader metaphor for a type of artistic production whose qualities derive from an interest in structure or systems. Pantone 705 C focuses on abstract art making and the construction of visual and spatial notions of form and space. The show is an exercise in exploring the immersive and sensual qualities of colour guided by the mechanics of Pantone’s colour-library. The exhibition includes work by: Marita Fraser, Axel Koschier, Alex Lawler, Lillian O'Neil, Florian & Michael Quistrebert. Exhibition dates: 20/04/13 – 18/05/13. The Mews Project Space 15c Osborn Street, London E1 6TD.
» 12/04/2013: Lillian O'Neil is exhibiting in the group exhibition, Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, at UTS Gallery at the University of Technology, Sydney. Curated by Adam Jasper and Holly Williams, the exhibition combines projects from New York magazine, Cabinet, with museum pieces and works by Australian and international artists. Artists in the exhibition include: Daniel Knorr, Patrick Pound, Gianni Motti, Hany Armanious, Maria Friberg, Roman Signer, Sarah Pickering, Nicholas Mangan, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Vicky Browne, the Institute of Critical Zoologists, Michael Stevenson, Jaki Middleton & David Lawrey, Nadia Wagner, Alex Gawronski, Lillian O’Neil, Matthew Shannon and Finn Marchant. Exhibition dates: 16 April - 15 May, 2013.
» 20/12/2012: The Commercial will be open until Saturday 22/12/12 and then will reopen for the new year on 23/01/13. The Hossein Ghaemi exhibition will still be up for the first week back in the new year 23/01/13 - 25/01/13, prior to installing Lillian O'Neil's show which opens 01/02/13. For further information about the forthcoming exhibition schedule at The Commercial for 2013, please consult The Program section of the website. We are excited about the year ahead. Thank you to everyone for your interest and support in 2012. PEACE.
» 25/10/2012: Lillian O'Neil was awarded the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artist Exchange Scholarship at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney. O'Neil will use the scholarship to undertake a period of research at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel in 2013 as part of her Masters of Fine Arts.