The Commercial | Jude Rae news

» 27/07/2023: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary 07.09.23 — 10.09.23. We will be presenting a group exhibition in Booth F16 with works by Archie Moore, Augusta Vinall Richardson, Jazz Money, Jude Rae and Mitch Cairns. Please contact the gallery via this link to receive advanced preview of works.
» 27/10/2022: The opening reception for Jude Rae’s exhibition is regretfully postponed. It will now take place at the new time of Saturday 05.11.22, 2–4pm. The gallery is open and the exhibition on view from 29.10.22, as originally scheduled. Images of the exhibition are now viewable online.
» 01/06/2022: Mitch Cairns, Patrick Hartigan, Anna Kristensen, Nigel Milsom, Jude Rae and Tim Schultz are exhibiting in the group exhibition, Zombie Eaters, at Murray Art Museum Albury. Curated by Michael Moran, Zombie Eaters looks to celebrate the strengths in recent Australian figurative painting.17.06.2022 — 16.10.2022
» 13/05/2022: Congratulations to Jude Rae for the High Commendation for her portrait of Saul Griffith in the 2022 Archibald Prize. Exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales: 14/05/22 - 28/08/22.
» 05/05/2022: Congratulations to Jude Rae whose entries have been shortlisted for both the 2022 Archibald and Wynne Prizes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Her Archibald entry is a portrait of renewable energy inventor and engineer, Saul Griffith. Her Wynne entry, The white fig (Ficus virens), Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Prizes are announced Friday 13/05/22. The prize exhibitions at AGNSW continue until 28/08/22.
» 01/10/2021: In light of the cancellation of the physical art fair at Carriageworks, The Commercial will be participating in Explore Sydney Contemporary with a group show of new paintings by Mitch Cairns, Nigel Milsom and Jude Rae. The online event takes place 11/11/21 - 21/11/21. During this time, we will install our presentation intended for the art fair at the gallery in Marrickville. Contact the gallery via this link to receive a preview of artworks.
» 18/09/2021: Jude Rae is presenting an online talk for the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of their public program, The Artist Speaks 2021. Rae is a current finalist in the Archibald Prize 2021 and the Sulman Prize 2021 with her works Inside out (highly commended) and On the beach (Malua Bay, NYE 2019), respectively. She was an Archibald finalist in 2014 and 2019, when she was highly commended for her portrait of actor Sarah Pierse. Rae was a subject for her father, David Rae’s Archibald entry in 1983. Bookings essential via AGNSW website at this link. Wednesday 22/09/21, 12.30-1.30pm
» 01/09/2021: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary 11/11/21 - 14/11/21 (revised dates). We are presenting an exhibition of figurative painting by Mitch Cairns, Nigel Milsom and Jude Rae. Concurrent with the art fair at nearby Carriageworks will be a solo exhibition at The Commercial by New York-based Anna Kristensen. Click here to receive advance preview of works for Sydney Contemporary and Anna Kristensen's exhibition.
» 27/05/2021: Congratulations to Jude Rae shortlisted for both the Archibald and Sulman prizes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. For the 100th year anniversary of the Archibald, a prize for which her father David Rae was also a finalist, Rae has included a self-portrait. Her Sulman entry is a large-scale history painting based on a photograph posted on Instagram by Alex Coppel of the 1999/2000 New Year’s Eve fires at Malua Bay on the South Coast of New South Wales. The Archibald and Sulman prizes are announced 04/06/21.
» 25/05/2021: The National Gallery of Australia today announced the artist list for the second chapter of its landmark exhibition, Know My Name. Included are major works by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Diena Georgetti and Jude Rae from the permanent collection. Know My Name is "the National Gallery's ongoing gender equity initiative, is a celebration and a commitment to women artists - intending to recast a male-dominated art history and reimagine a more inclusive future at the Gallery and beyond." exhibition dates: 12/06/21 - 26/01/22
» 24/09/2020: Listen to Jude Rae interviewed by Maria Stoljar during her solo exhibition, 424 - 428, at The Commercial for Talking with Painters podcast.
» 01/08/2020: Interview with Jude Rae by Lucy Stranger for Artist Profile on the occasion of Rae's first solo exhibition at The Commercial.
» 01/06/2020: Bonita Bub, Agatha Gothe-Snape and Jude Rae will be live in conversation online on Zoom as part of Melbourne Art Fair, Saturday 06/06/20 at 12.30pm. The talk is around the presentation of the three artists' work in The Commercial's Melbourne Art Fair viewing room, hosted by Ocula. VIP Preview 01-02/06/20. Public dates 03-07/06/20. Register here.
» 22/05/2020: The Commercial is looking forward to presenting an online viewing room for Melbourne Art Fair from 1-7 June 2020, hosted by ocula.com, with works by Bonita Bub, Agatha Gothe-Snape and Jude Rae. The presentation on Ocula is taking place in lieu of the physical fair which has been postponed until 4-7 February 2021. Follow this link to register for early VIP access for the first two days of the online fair and contact us by email to receive an advance preview of works.
» 18/05/2020: The Commercial will be open 11am - 4pm for the final two Saturdays of our current group exhibition, The Humanity. The exhibition presents two new works each by Diena Georgetti, Patrick Hartigan, Oscar Perry, Jude Rae and Yasmin Smith and two late works by Gunter Christmann. Saturdays 23/05/20 and 30/05/20.
» 14/05/2020: Jude Rae was invited by the Colin McCahon House project to contribute a piece of writing on the New Zealand artist's work. Rae unravels the impact on her own practice of encounters with McCahon's work at formative moments of her career, specifically his 1970 painting, Victory over death 2, a gift from the New Zealand Government to the Australian national collection in 1978. The text is published on the Colin McCahon House website.
» 22/04/2020: As part of the program for The Humanity, a group exhibition with new work by Diena Georgetti, Patrick Hartigan, Oscar Perry, Jude Rae and Yasmin Smith and late work by Gunter Christmann, Oscar Perry will be presenting a music set on The Commercial’s Instagram, from 3pm AEST Saturday 25/04/20. We hope you can join us. The artists in the exhibition will be taking over The Commercial’s Instagram each week of the exhibition: Oscar Perry: 29/04/20 - 02/05/20; Patrick Hartigan: 06/05/20 - 09/05/20; Yasmin Smith: 13/05/20 - 16/05/20; Jude Rae: 20/05/20 - 23/05/20; Diena Georgetti: 27/05/20 - 30/05/20.
» 06/02/2020: Jude Rae has donated a painting to HOME, a Bushfire Relief Art Auction Fundraiser at the National Art School Gallery on Wednesday 12 February 7pm-10pm, organised by Sydney Contemporary. All proceeds go to WWF Australia, Climate Council and Firesticks Alliance.
» 13/12/2019: It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial is representing Jude Rae (b. 1956, Sydney; l. Sydney) and to warmly welcome her to the gallery. Rae’s observational painting practice is analytic of objects, space and light. She works within the genres of still life and large-scale interiors and the conceptual and perceptual propositions they offer as within a laboratory, subtly manipulating the variables of composition and the desires of media - oil paint on textured linen, charcoal, watercolour and etchings on paper – for palpable effects. She chooses objects emptied of sentimentality and familiarity and places them under “inquisitorial” (Rae) light. Economies of composition are narrowed to formal elements, sensitising and slowing the activity of looking via nuanced constructions and interpretations of light and affecting tonal relationships. Rae’s practice conflates the traditions of Netherlandish 17th Century painting, early French modernists’ ventures in subjective (imaginative) vision with late 20th Century philosophies of abstraction and speed. For four decades, Jude Rae has presented regular solo exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand, her movement between the two countries has resulted in firmly-rooted artistic citizenship of both. In 2017, a large-scale survey exhibition of Rae’s work, Jude Rae: A Space of Measured Light, was presented by the Drill Hall Gallery at the Australian National University, Canberra, curated by Terence Maloon. Rae has been the recipient of major painting prizes including the 2016 Bulgari Art Award at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Portia Geach Memorial Award 2008 and 2005. Rae’s work is held in many major public, university and corporate collections in Australia and New Zealand. Details of forthcoming exhibitions will be announced in the new year.