2025 McClelland Maquette Award Finalist - 'tower for a tear' selected

McClelland is proud to announce the 62 finalists for the inaugural Maquette: Sculpture Award, selected from an impressive pool of 252 entries. This new $20,000 acquisitive award, generously supported by celebrated Australian artist Rick Amor, honours sculptural skill and expression and will see the winning work enter the McClelland collection. The title of this new sculpture prize refers to the scale of the entries—no more than 50 centimetres in any dimension. Finalists were selected by artist Lisa Roet and McClelland’s Artistic and Executive Director Lisa Byrne, with the winning work to be chosen by acclaimed sculptor John Meade.

Lisa Byrne shared: “The Maquette: Sculpture Award is a celebration of the sculptor’s imagination at its most distilled. We’re proud to support artists working in this vital medium and to welcome a new generation of sculptural ideas into the McClelland collection.”

Curator Suzette Wearne adding, “It's exciting to have the chance to bring together such a wide range of artistic voices and styles. The finalists’ sculptures run the gamut of materials: bronze, timber, ceramic, textile, glass, plaster, paper, resin and found and natural materials. Together, they address a range of concepts and ideas as broad as one can imagine: from traditional to experimental, formal to political, the whimsical to the profound. There will be something for every gallery visitor to enjoy.”

The finalists’ works comprise a dynamic representation of contemporary sculpture, showcasing

innovation, materiality and conceptual depth. Their works will be exhibited at McClelland from Saturday 22 November 2025 to Sunday 22 March 2026, offering audiences a unique glimpse into the sculptural process.

FINALISTS INCLUDE

Ruth Allen, Darcey Bella Arnold, John Baird, Geoffrey Bartlett, Lynne Bechervaise, Catherine Bell, Stephen Benwell, Stephen Bird, Jeremy Blincoe, Sam Bloomfield, Mark Booth, Keith Burt, Matt Butterworth, Penny Byrne, Veronica Caven Aldous, Dean Colls, Peter Cooley, Emma Coulter, Marcel Cousins, Emma Davies, Ara Dolatian, Michael Doolan, Dana Falcini, Ben Fasham, Carly Fischer, Stefanie Flaubert & Janos Korban, Wanda Gillespie, Sarah Goffman, Brad Gunn, Deborah Halpern, Anton Hasell, Brigit Heller, Titania Henderson, Marian Hosking, Linda Judge, Virginia Keft, Jo Lane, Christopher Langton, Fiona McDonald, Tim Meakins, Carolyn Menzies, Sanné Mestrom, Jamieson Miller, Glenn Morgan, Jamie Mumford, Jessica Murtagh, Mike Nicholls, Rose Nolan, Louis Pratt, Elvis Richardson, Cameron Robbins, Brian Robinson, Nuha Saad, Michael Sibel, Louise Skačej, Paul Sloan, Tai Snaith, Meagan Streader, Fleur Summers, Cyrus Tang, Meredith Turnbull, Lisa Young.

KEY DATES

Exhibition: Saturday 22 November 2025 to Sunday 22 March 2026

McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery

390 McClelland Drive Langwarrin.

Mcclelland.org.au

SMALL WORLD Sculpture Exhibition and Prize

‘sky rise’ is a finalist in the Newstead Arts Hub Sculpture Prize (Victoria). Opening Saturday 8th March

he Small World Sculpture Prize is a dynamic showcase of artists at all stages of their careers, from emerging to established. It is a celebration of our diverse and vibrant artistic community.

Artists’ have shared their work in 3D that explore what a ‘small world’ means to them. Through this exhibition we will create space to stop, reflect and focus on small things that can inspire big ideas.

‘sky rise’ pigment infused hydrostone 27 x 27 x27 cm


https://newsteadartshub.org/portfolio/small-world-sculpture-prize-exhibition/

CURRENTS of PRACTICE on World Wetlands Day 2025

Will be showing ‘everywas & everywhere’ diptych at COOLART in Somers, Victoria on World Wetlands Day.

Proudly supported by the Mornington Peninsula Shire, in partnership with the Western Port Biosphere and Friends of Coolart.

'Currents of Practice' weaves a narrative of art, supporting this exploration of how art can draw attention to unseen places, creating encounters that challenge, inspire, and transform.

👀 Opening Saturday February 1
1.30-3.30 Coolart Homestead

📅 Save the Date: February 2, 2025
Q_A Panel Discussion & Exhibition
📍 Where: Coolart Homestead

VMG Art Series

The ‘Language of Existence’ and exhibition of a portfolio of my work has been extended till the end of December 2022. All enquiries including private viewing: 0492 149 053

The VMG Art Series comprises a rotating, curated exhibition program, the objective of which is to provide a unique opportunity for unrepresented (Victoria) visual artists to showcase their work within an innovative space and purpose-designed environment as well as presenting their art practice to a new audience.

Commencing in January 2021, and in partnership with Catherine Asquith, as art advisor for the Series, the Venetian Media Group’s (VMG) commitment to the Australian visual arts has been long-standing; this Series, extends support to the sector.

Kedumba Drawing Award 2022

Kedumba Drawing Award 2022

untitled (drawing) 2022
Every morning I draw—on my face. Part of me wants to make it obvious that everyone draws; whether you draw a map for a friend, put on your eyeliner, try to demonstrate to a plumber the position of your water meter, trace your lover’s lips… Part of me wants to draw attention to the notion of ‘presentation’ to the world, and the vagueries of enhancements, and aging, and expectations. On all accounts the work is very public yet very personal.

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Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize

My small oil painting ‘single use’ is a finalist in the 2021 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize – Open Category.
Over 700 entries were received and 176 finalists have been selected across the seven Open sub-categories
Manly Art Gallery & Museum (West Esplanade Reserve Manly NSW 2095)
Exhibition dates & times 6 – 22 August, 10am – 5pm, Tues – Sun

JoLane_singleuse_loRes.jpg

Southern Buoy Portrait Prize

'self portrait after 2020'
oil on canvas board and pigmented hydrastone
29.5 x 34.5 cm
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Honestly 2020 was a tough tough year, its effect still reverberates.
This little portrait has come out of this......sometimes there was a sense of disappearance, being covered over, not moving, anxiety, sadness, kindness ....
I am so very uplifted to learn that it has been selected as a finalist
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"The SBS Portrait Prize celebrates the tradition of portraiture painting in a contemporary context that welcomes appreciation, open interpretation and further understanding of the Arts within our community. This exhibition is held at our beautiful gallery space on the stunning Mornington Peninsula, Victoria."
1/19 Carbine Way,
Mornington, Victoria, Australia
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Opens 17th April.

self portrait after 2020

self portrait after 2020

The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2020 finalist

The 56 finalist artist sculptures – each measuring up to 80cm in any dimension – were selected from a record 844 entries by a judging panel comprised of Director Curatorial and Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Dr Lara Strongman, Art Historian/Curator and Industrial Archaeologist Joanna Capon OAM and celebrated artist and fashion designer Jenny Kee AO.

Woollahra Mayor, Councillor Susan Wynne said: “We are thrilled to have received a record number of entries this year as we mark the 20th edition of this celebrated prize. To see such an enthusiastic response to the Prize, during such a difficult year only strengthens our commitment to cultural development and reinforces the decision we have made to open our first art gallery next year – Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf. The quality and diversity of the 2020 Finalist works are outstanding, and we cannot wait to welcome visitors into the new gallery with an exhibition that has something for everyone.”

My statement: “I use my art practice to explore social and psychological subjects. As the Mother of an only child I ponder the notion of ‘one’ and while seeing the pillow of my Mother used daily in her elderly state I cannot ignore the notion of comfort, propping up, rest and anxiety. This work ‘only child’ memorialises and immortalises the single, private, personal pillow.   Carved from a block of marble, the soft and solitary state of a used pillow creates a human landscape of comfort and disturbance.”

‘only child’ marble carving 2020

‘only child’ marble carving 2020

Time is a Traveller

Proud to post a new little work of mine in online show, opening today 10th September at WESTENDARTSPACE
LAYERS OF TIME
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'Time is a Traveller'
29 x 29 cm
charcoal, graphite and prismacolor on Arrche 300gsm
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In the words of Virginia Woolf, ”the revelation never came. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark”.
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'Layers of Time' is a collection of the latest artworks created in lockdown accompanied by reflections on how the pandemic has affected these artists' notion of time.
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Wonderful group show. Catalogue at westernartspace.com.au

Jo Lane Time is a Traveller

exhibition shots from 'because everyone sleeps'

Sawtooth Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania. Thank you Tash and Tim for the photos of install and opening

'because everyone sleeps'

I have 2 works, both from my Masters coursework, accepted into the show ‘because everyone sleeps’ curated by Ciara O’Meara at Sawtooth Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania. Gallery website: sawtoothari.com

Show opens June 7th 2019

'DRAWING STRENGTH'

‘Drawing Strength’ drawing show is staged at Montsalvat Barn Gallery, Eltham, Victoria, Australia.
18 artist’s work, from all over the world who employ drawing in their practice is shown over a 2 month, November 2018-January 2019 summer show.

For details, including a video file of talk by Jo Lane “What is Drawing? It is what you think” see drawingstrength.weebly.com

..during talk

..during talk