2024 was a most disappointing year for producing work. I had a really good studio in West Melbourne but unfortunately the building was sold I and the other resident artists were confronted with having to move out many months sooner than we had been originally advised. Trying to find a suitable affordable space to work in was not easy and the search took most of the year.
Port Vell | 2022, was included in the shortlist for the Sunshine National Art Prize held at Caloundra Regional Gallery from 23 August to 13 October 2024.
Alhambra #10 which was in The Essence of Space exhibition at the Nancy Sever Gallery is now part of the Parliament House Art Collection in Canberra.
Alhambra #6, shortlisted for The Arthur Guy Memorial Prize 2023, was on display at the Bendigo Art Gallery from November 2023 to February 2024. It was one of 36 paintings selected from a field of over 900 entries.
The tough, cerebral abstract paintings by Magda Cebokli have long graced the Australian art scene but this, as far as I am aware, is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Canberra.
Cebokli was born in Slovenia in 1947 and came to Australia as a child. After a career as a clinical and research psychologist, in the 1990s she requalified as an artist, studying art in Australia, Hong Kong and New York, and settled in Melbourne where she has been exhibiting since the 1990s. (Sasha Grishin)
This exhibition is a conversation in three parts, each exploring aspects of the language of space. The work in each of the parts was inspired by time I have spent in Spain and my response to some of the places I visited.
5 March – 9 April
Opening Sunday 5 March
Nancy Sever Gallery
Level 1, 131 City Walk, next door to King O’Malley’s, Civic
Canberra City ACT 2601
An exhibition of serene and crystalline paintings by award winning artists Tony Lloyd and Magda Cebokli.
I visited The Alhambra in Granada, Spain in 2007. On return home, I made a number of small studies based on my response to, and reading about, the site. A return visit was planned for 2020 but had to be cancelled because of Covid.
I visited The Alhambra in Granada, Spain in 2007. On return home, I made a number of small studies based on my response to, and reading about, the site. A return visit was planned for 2020 but had to be cancelled because of Covid.