Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie
2A First Street, Booragul NSW 2284
LAND brings together nine celebrated Australian artists responding to the atmosphere of place. Developed following a 2025 residency at The Corridor Project on Wiradjuri Country, the exhibition emerges from direct, embodied experience tracing geology, weather, memory, and cultural histories through abstraction and material experimentation. Collectively, the works extend contemporary Australian landscape painting through engaged, site-responsive practice.
COWRA REGIONAL ART GALLERY
77 Darling Street, Cowra NSW 2794
OPENING HOURS
Tuesday to Saturday: 10am-4pm
Sunday: 10am-2pm
Phone: +61 2 63402190
www.cowraartgallery.com.au
Every year, HMRI pairs their Research Excellence Award winner with a talented artist to tell the story of life-saving research. This year, Professor Joshua Davis and Newcastle artist Belinda Street sat down to begin that journey.
Professor Davis leads HMRI’s Infection Research Program and has transformed how the world manages severe infections. From the groundbreaking SNAP trial (the world’s largest for Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection) to co-leading Australia’s COVID-19 treatment trials, his work has reshaped global guidelines and saved lives.
Belinda was selected from 27 submissions by four independent judges for the way she captures not just what she sees, but what she feels. Her work blends observation with emotion and memory – and now she’ll use that approach to transform Professor Davis’ research into a powerful piece of art.
Artist Statement:
‘Ships in the Night 1” was inspired by a deeply transformative artist residency at Nobby’s Whibayganba Lighthouse in Newcastle, NSW. Unique and diverse, Newcastle Harbour is Australia’s largest coal export port and a place of constant movement. The harbour is uniquely alive: colossal cargo ships, tugboats, ferries, recreational vessels, and the ever-present hum of industry all flow in and out, creating an unrelenting rhythm. I could not help but reflect on the sustainability of these practices and how we are utilising our oceans. ‘Ships in the Night 1’ is a response to the ships that seemingly never stop, even through the night. The 24/7 nature of the seafarers life and the toll that must take on their family lives– the title ‘Ships in the Night’ also makes reference to the difficulties in spending time with loved ones. As an abstract painter, my goal is not to just represent the visual spectacle, but to provide an emotional response and the feeling of being there: the ship movements, the salt-laden wind, the stark light, the ever-present hum and energy of the harbour.
Inspired by the National Gallery of Australia’s 2019 ‘Know My Name’ initiative, a project that has effectively redressed many of the silent, unknown histories of women painters in Australia, this exhibition features the work of four Newcastle based abstract artists—Virginia Cuppaidge, Belinda Street, Lezlie Tilley, and Patricia Wilson-Adams.
‘Know My Abstraction’ highlights their unique approaches to abstraction, all rooted in the Australian landscape. Each artist brings a distinct aesthetic: Cuppaidge’s atmospheric minimalism, Street’s expressive gestures, Tilley’s geometric process, and Wilson-Adams’ eccentric abstraction.
Although progress has been made in public institutions, women artists continue to be underrepresented in major collections, exhibitions and commercial galleries. This exhibition addresses that ongoing disparity by highlighting the diverse and accomplished practices of women whose work spans decades and continents—work that has received awards and recognition, yet remains overlooked within the broader art historical narrative.
‘Know My Abstraction’ brings together exemplars working in abstraction through their evolving and multifaceted practices—a call to know their names, know their abstraction.
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY GALLERY
University Drive,
CALLAGHAN NSW 2308
www.newcastle.edu.au/universitygallery
OPENING HOURS
Wednesday to Friday: 10am–5pm
Saturday: 12–4pm or by appointment
Curatorial & Co: 80 William Street, Woolloomooloo NSW
The harbour, alive with the same vivacious energy as the brushstrokes in Street’s paintings, was teeming with colossal cargo ships, tugboats, ferries, recreational vessels, and the hum of industry all flow in and out, creating an unrelenting rhythm. This energy, both human and mechanical, collides with the wild, elemental force of the coastline and became the main inspiration behind this body of work.
Kosciuszko is a recurring subject in Street’s work and finding a new way of interpreting this unique alpine landscape is central to this new series of abstract paintings. These works embody the physical, emotional and sensory experience of being in the landscape rather than depictions of an actual scene.
By focusing on the expressive potential of abstraction, Street’s paintings invite viewers to confront the mysterious and evoke a heightened state of contemplation and wonder.
Street explains: “I use marks, colour and layering to evoke not only a particular place but how I felt in that landscape. To create an abstract impression that evokes the emotions and sensory experiences that I had when I was in the landscape.”
Curatorial+Co
80 William Street, Woolloomooloo NSW
Curatorial+Co
Website: http://talkingwithpainters.com/
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These new paintings centre around two alpine areas of Australia; Mount Kosciuszko NSW and Mount Wellington TAS.
The alpine landscape is a recurring theme for Street. The artist is drawn not only to it’s sense of calm, beauty and awe, but also it’s loneliness and isolation- shifting and unstable. Through this landscape the artist pushes and pulls between representation and abstraction, using the pieces to explore her own personal desires, longing, loss, frustrations and guilt.
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Straitjacket
222 Denison St, Broadmeadow NSW 2292
Website: http://talkingwithpainters.com/
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As part of Newcastle Art Gallery Society’s “Coffee with Art” event, join Belinda Street and Maria Stoljar in conversation as they discuss Belinda’s art, life and new paintings currently on display at Straitjacket.
Maria Stoljar is a Newcastle born painter and podcaster, based in Sydney, whose podcast series “Talking with Painters” focuses on Australian artists and their painting practice.
For more information and bookings, see the Newcastle Art Gallery Website.
www.nag.org.au
The Build Up is a group exhibition of the 2021/2022 mentorship program featuring 15 mentors and 16 mentees who have worked together through the year developing ideas and contributing to each other’s practice to foster personal and professional growth. This is the second year of the mentorship program and we are proud to present the exhibition being curated by Leah Poi with her mentor Courtney Novak.
I will be exhibiting a work alongside my mentee Jane Kerrigan.
Newcastle Art Space Gallery
91 Chinchen St, Islington NSW 2296, Australia
New Kosciuszko Artworks are now in stock throughout winter 2022 at
JK Gallery, Thredbo
“Rhythms of the Monaro: The Kelton Plain Artist Residency”
Elisabeth Cummings, David Collins, Sally Stokes,
Leah Thiessen, Belinda Street
5 February to 1 March, 2022
Wagner Contemporary
2 Hampden Street, Paddington NSW
The Haslingden Family established the Kelton Plain Artist Residency in 2012. Since then many artists have stayed at the family home in the beautiful 1890’s homestead and have enjoyed painting en plein air in the surrounding farmland amidst the inspiring landscape of the Monaro. On the traditional land of the Ngarigo People, ‘Monaro’ literally means high plateau or high plain. The property still operates as a commercial cattle and sheep farm and spans over 3500 acres.
The life of the artist is typically one of solitude, so there is something special when artists come together on an art residency. The talk, the sharing, the eating. The experience of place, the light, sun, rain, and changing temperatures. Being together, but working apart. A time out of time. Connection – to each other, to the landscape.
Artists David Collins, Elisabeth Cummings, Sally Stokes, Belinda Street and Leah Thiessen were invited to spend a week at the Kelton Plain Property in May 2021.
The artists venture into the landscape each day to make sense of its vast grassy plains, granite rocks, twisted eucalypts and vast skies, all under the shadow of ‘The Snowies’. To sit in the landscape, be in the moment, alert and attentive. What speaks to each artist is different and through their individual creative processes they attempt to merge the physical with the emotional. As each day unfolds they take on this harsh yet beautiful environment using pencil, charcoal, pen, and paint, striving to capture the essence of the Monaro Plain.
“Rhythms of the Monaro” is the result of each artists time spent at the residency and the memories interpreted back in their respective studios. En plein air studies and studio developed paintings, this exhibition reveals the artists individual visions and memories of this beautiful, rugged, wind swept plain.
“Calleen Art Award 2021”
Finalist
Cowra Regional Art Gallery
This polyptych was created after a trip to Central Australia. I was fascinated by the birdlife and was inspired to create a series of all the parrots found in the area in which I travelled – from top left: Major Mitchells Cockatoo, Budgerigar, Princess Parrot, Night Parrot, Cockatiel, Little Corella, Mulga Parrot, Bourkes Parrot, Australian Ringneck, Black Cockatoo, Galah, and Scarlet Chested Parrot.
Menzies Art Brands
12 Todman Ave, Kensington NSW 2033
Opens: Thursday 17 October, 6-8pm
“Reimagining the Canon”
23 October to 17 November, 2019
Opening and drinks with the artists: 4-6pm Saturday 26 October
A gender inspired lens frames this inaugural exhibition that celebrates women artists’ contribution to art and exhibition practices. Curated by Dr Annemarie Murland, the exhibition represents mid-career and established artists from major and regional cities around Australia, England, Ireland, and Scotland.
University of Newcastle Gallery
Callaghan NSW 2308
Belinda’s artwork “Pagoda View” has been selected as a finalist in the 2018 Gosford Regional Art Prize.
On display at The Gosford Regional Art Gallery until 18 November, 2018
“ABSTRACTED”
26 July to 12 August, 2018
Official opening and drinks with the artist Sat 28 July 2-4pm
http://www.gallery139.com.au/2018-exhibitions/abstracted
Gallery 139
139A Beaumont St
Hamilton NSW 2303
“MOVERS & SHAPERS”
24 August to 4 September, 2018
Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre
782 Kingsway, Gymea NSW
Belinda’s artwork “Home Trail” has been selected as a finalist in the 2017 Gosford Regional Art Prize.
“BIG BAD LAND”
July 20 – August 6, 2017
OPENING – Saturday July 22, 2-4pm
Gallery 139
139 Beaumont St, Hamilton NSW
Gallery hours: Thurs-Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-2pm
I will also be giving an artist talk at the gallery on Sunday 30th July from 11am
May 25 – June 10, 2017
OPENING – Saturday 27 May, 2-4pm
Gallery Smith Project Space
170-174 Abbotsford Street, North Melbourne
April 6 April 23, 2017
9-20 August 2016
Drinks with the Artist – Saturday 13th August, 2-4pm – All welcome
The Depot Gallery
2 Danks Street, Waterloo
Instagram: #asociallandscape
Facebook Event: A Social Landscape
Belinda Street’s painting “Vineyard in Orange” has been selected as a finalist in the 2016 Fleurieu Food & Wine Art Prize.
Belinda’s artwork “Arkaroola View” has been selected as a finalist in the 2015 Gosford Regional Art Prize.
Belinda’s charcoal drawing “Siller’s Lookout” has been selected as a finalist in the 2015 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.
Belinda’s charcoal drawing “View from Siller’s Lookout” has been selected as a finalist in the 2015 Muswellbrook Art Prize.
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