KEN SMITH'S work Trees and Ocean 2011(at left) is included in the The Len Fox Painting Award, currently on view at The Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum. The Len Fox Painting Award is a new acquisitive award of $20,000 which will be held every two years. The award was initiated and funded by author, teacher and historian Len Fox (1905-2004) whose uncle was the Australian born Impressionist painter E. Phillips Fox, and awards a painting of an Australian subject in sympathy with the work of E. Phillips Fox.

Ken Smith has also been selected as a finalist in the Nora Heysen Centenary Art Prize for Still Life 2011, for his work, at left, Still Life 1 2011 (acrylic on panel, 60 x 70 cm). The exhibition is on view at the Hahndorf Academy in South Australia until December 4.

DION HORSTMANS - EXHIBITING IN SCULPTURE BY THE SEA, BONDI & NIU WARRIOR at THE CASULA POWERHOUSE
Flinders Lane Gallery congratulates Dion Horstman for being selected to exhibit in this year's Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi. The exhibition will run from 3 - 20 November.Click here to view the Sculpture by the Sea website.
Dion has also been invited to participate as part of the Casula Powerhouse's Nui Warrior exhibition series, exploring the practices of artists from the Pacific Rim. Dion's work will form part of the group exhibition Pacifica: The Art of War. The exhibition will run from the 24 September to 4 December.

JO DAVENPORT - PROUD SHOW PAINTING PRIZE
Congratulations to Jo Davenport who has been awarded the Painting Prize at the Proud Show for VCA students held at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery.  Jo's four works, titled 'Valley of the Winds', are from her series Along the Way. We have more works from this series available at the gallery, able to be viewed online here.

NEW ROMANTICS BOOK LAUNCH
Book Launch of Simon Gregg’s New Romantics- Darkness and Light in Australian Art was launched by Andrew Gaynor, independent curator and arts writer Saturday 8 October 2011, 2.00pm at Arc One Gallery.
This book features the art of KATHRYN RYAN and WILLIAM BREEN among others.

SARAH AMOS - IMPACT 7 & MONTH OF PRINT
Coinciding with her upcoming exhibition at FLG, Sarah Amos will be presenting several masterclasses on collagraphic techniques and monoprinting in association with the Australia Print Council’s Month of Print and IMPACT7 international printmaking conference to be held at Monash University. We are also delighted to invite you to a floor talk Sarah Amos will present at Flinders Lane Gallery on Saturday 3 September at 2pm sharp. Please contact the gallery to register your interest.

DAN WOLLMERING - LATROBE REGIONAL GALLERY
Dan Wollmering is now exhibiting a selection of earlier and new sculptures at Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria from 6 August - 2 October 2011.

GREER HONEYWILL - GEELONG PRINT PRIZE & SURVEY SHOW
Congratulations to Greer Honeywill, who has just been announced as a finalist in the Geelong Print Prize 2011, for her work Disturbance 1, at left, which froms part of her Disturbance series.
Honeywill is also to stage a survey show at Carnegie Gallery, Hobart in July/August 2012 titled, IN-grained - works in wood 2000-2012. The show will be curated by Peta Heffernan. As part of the show Greer and Peta will make a new major collaborative work. Greer also opens a new solo show, Veiled, at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Brighton VIC, in January 2012.
In other news Honeywill will shortly complete a mini-residency with Doris Macilwain, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University, looking at the psychology and allure of the serial in art.

JON EISEMAN - ART WALL OF CHINA
Jon Eiseman, talented local sculptor, has been selected for representation in Art Wall magazine, an art and investment magazine aimed at promoting Australian and Chinese artists. Eiseman will be featured in the 'Master Profile' column over several pages. Art Wall will be launched at the Shanghai Spring Art Salon and distributed throughout China.

CAROLINE RANNERSBERGER- MAGNT COLLECTION
BREAKING NEWS JULY 2011 It is now official that the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) under the newly appointed Director, Pierre Arpin, have acquired Caroline Rannersberger's Melancholy Territory III.

KEN SMITH - THE ENIGMA OF THE OFFING
Ken Smith presented a paper, The Enigma of the Offing, at the Midterm Meeting of the International Colour Association in Zurich in June 2011. The conference theme was The Interaction of Light and Colour in the Arts and Sciences. Ken's recent solo exhibition, Coloured Time, investigated the relationship of colour to the transience of time.
In other news, Ken has also been invited to submit a painting to this year's Tattersalls Landscape Painting Prize.

CAROLINE RANNERSBERGER -TogArt, GLOVER & ALBANY PRIZES
Caroline Rannersberger has just been shortlisted for the prestigious TogArt Contemporary Art Award. She is also a finalist in the prestigious 2011 Glover Prize  & finalist in the 2011 City of Albany Art Prize. It is now official that the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) under the newly appointed Director, Pierre Arpin, have acquired Caroline Rannersberger's Melancholy Territory III.

GREER HONEYWILL - FESTIVAL OF VOICES
Greer Honeywill has been invited to curate the highlight event for the major Tasmanian mid-winter event, Festival of Voices. Greer is also writing an article for the MONA edition of Island Magazine Ed. 125 the 2011 winter edition.

WILLIAM BREEN - AUSTRALIAN ART REVIEW
We are delighted to inform you of a three page profile 'Painter of Light' written by Sasha Grishin, on Flinders Lane Gallery artist William Breen in the new edition of the Australian Art Review. With AAR's permission I include to the left a link to a PDF of the article. I hope that you enjoy the read.