Kim Demuth

Beam Contemporary Exhibition Opening: Thursday 9 September 6pm-8pm Exhibition continues: 10 September to 2 October Level 1, 30 Guildford Lane Melbourne Victoria 3000 www.beamcontemporary.com.au Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11am-6pm

Peter Harley Jensen

Peter Harley Jensen returns for his sixth exhibition at Art Images Gallery. His latest works combine elements of the harsh Australian environment with his Scandinavian heritage to bring us original images of a hybrid identity.

Deborah Beck

Deborah Beck is one of the artists exhibiting at 'Atelier - The National Art School Studio in Paris'; a joint exhibition organised by the Friends of the National Art School and Charles Hewitt Gallery running until March 8, 2010.

Peter Coad

The glorious landscape that has inspired great South Australian artists from Sir Hans Heysen to the present day will be celebrated in the inaugural Heysen Trail Exhibition from February 2010 – a fascinating new type of art exhibition held in multiple venues across South Australia, drawing international attention to the landscape, local artists and their dynamic artworks in equal measure.

John Olsen

Signed lower right, inscribed with title lower left. Provenance: Collection of the artist; Pels, Innes, Neilson & Kosloff; Christies, Nov. 2001, Melbourne; Private collections, Melbourne. Exhibited: Perth, Greenhill Galleries, John Olsen 24 Oct. - 9 Nov. 1989, cat. No. 20. Sydney, Australian Galleries, John Olsen, 2 - 28 April 1990, cat. No. 14 (catalogued as Robert Graves on the Gypsy Caravan). Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, John Olsen Retrospective, 1 Nov. 1991 - 2 Feb. 1992, fig. No. 61.

John Bartlett

'Variations on a theme' Exhibition opening at Kazari Collector 12th September 2 - 5pm John Bartlett’s professional career as a Melbourne based artist spans more than 3 decades producing a considerable amount of work and many exhibitions in some iconic Melbourne galleries including Pinacotheca, with Ray Hughes in Sydney and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. His most recent stylistic venture has been in development for 6 years and signals an important stage in his artistic oeuvre. Creating textured encaustics from beeswax and pigments applied to aluminium, he has performed deep investigations into symbols evolving through and creating links between the I Qing, Aboriginal body painting and the Japanese aesthetic principles of wabi sabi. John Bartlett is included in the New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art

Nikita Burt

Nikita Burt's exhibition will be on display from the 18th of June until the 5th of July at The Art Vault in Mildura. "Our inner rooms stand witness to our every experience. Our walls bear the marks of growth and indiscretions. Drawing from the notion that physicality is reflected from within the psyche, these inside walls are explored. Borrowed textures from clothes which I inhabit provide the imagery for a surface only glimpsed within the quiet spaces of the mind." - Nikita Burt, 2009.

Michael Esson

Michael Esson: Mixed Metaphors. A survey exhibition by Michael Esson, whose highly original drawings focus on the figure and drawing practice as forensic investigation.

Linton Meagher

Artist: Linton Meagher Born in Sydney in 1975 and studied art at the Julian Ashton School and at the University of Sydney, completing a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) in 1996. Collections include the World Health Organisation (Paris), Xenos and T. & C. Business Consulting (Sydney). 'My portfolio conveys the progression in my work away from traditional oil on canvas towards more conceptual mixed media work mosaic work with fibreglass and Perspex. Prior exhibitions have focused on the fragmentation of images and have included mosaics made out of glass marbles and hydraulically pressed and machine cut Coca Cola can pieces cast in resin...' Upcoming exhibition (early 2008), will continue the use of pills and capsules (Encapsulations exhibition) and extend into the use of 20,000 surgical scalpels cast in resin. All the capsules in the artworks are empty and fully encased in fibreglass resin. Further details www.lintonmeagher.com Artworks supported by All Plastics.