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Congratulations Steven Rendall, finalist in the Len Fox Painting Award. An exhibition of the finalists' work will be held at the Castlemaine Art Museum, opening in December.⁠
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Len Fox Painting Award⁠
Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine, Vic⁠
11 December 2026 - 14 March 2027 ⁠
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Pictured: Steven Rendall, Signs, 2026, oil on linen, 118 x 118cm

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Congratulations Euan Heng and Steven Rendall, finalists in the 2026 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. An exhibition of the finalists' work will be held at Geelong Gallery 7 November 2026 to 28 February 2027⁠
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Pictured (L to R):⁠
Euan Heng⁠
Obstacle, 2026⁠
oil on linen⁠
122 x 117cm⁠
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Steven Rendall⁠
The Roundaout Behind the Station, 2026⁠
oil on linen⁠
153 x 198cm⁠

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So good to spend some time with these special ‘Aussies in New York’ @nabnordin & @nickmodrzewski 🙏🏽 for ferrying us around Tribeca for gallery openings, even though we were only allowed 5 mins in each space :-)

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When @steven.rendall agreed to our trip to LA he didn’t realise he was also signing up for my ‘Eve Babitz adoration pilgrimage/tour’. Here are some significant sites…

1: Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood

Author, artist, and LA It Girl (she’s so much more than that) died in 2021 at the age of 78. Eve is interred in the Cathedral Mausoleum in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where we visited on a scorching 37 degree day. There was no respite from the heat even in the marble mausoleum, and despite knowing the exact co-ordinates of Eve’s memorial, it took a long time to find and I was quite emotional when we finally located it. There was a singular lipstick imprint of a kiss on the glass, I left my own.

Onsite cremation is available for USD $2,395, which includes essential services and is sometimes complimentary with the purchase of a specific niche or urn burial. I grabbed a brochure from the gift shop.

Eve Babitz made LA the main character in her writing - and I went looking for traces of the LA she documented, much of it fast disappearing or long gone.

2. The Sheiks, Hollywood High

On our way to dinner at one of Eve Babitz’s favourite haunts, @mussoandfrankgrill on Hollywood Boulevard, we chanced upon a game by The Sheiks; the team and mascot of Hollywood High (Eve’s high school) is named after matinee idol Rudolf Valentino’s 1921 silent film ‘The Sheik’. It was an essay on Valentino that got Babitz her first Rolling Stone assignment (referred to the editor by Joan Didion) and a photograph of Valentino is interred with Eve.

3. Musso and Frank, Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood’s oldest restaurant - founded in 1919 - and pre-dating the naming of Hollywood itself, Musso and Frank is old school Hollywood, and you can imagine the deals, deceits and heartbreak that happened here in the leather booths. In homage to Eve, I ordered her favourite dish, The Filet of Sand Dabs (sautéed meunière) and a gimlet.

4. Musso and Frank, Hollywood Boulevard

5. Sunset Marquis, West Hollywood

Babitz was deeply embedded in the L.A. music scene, and the scene of much of its revelry was the Sunset Marquis, a place that Eve praised for its “jolly ambience li

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For the first time in over 20 years - @steven.rendall & I are traveling together - sans famille. Despite our trip (planned at extremely short notice) nearly not happening after I had purchased the flights - because one of us realized they didn’t actually have a valid passport (not me) - here we are having arrived yesterday in the middle of an end of summer LA heatwave. I love the morning flight from Melbourne to LA, which departs at 9.45am and arrives into LAX at 7am on the same day. It’s like the flight never happened. Also handy hint - if you purchase tickets on this code-share flight from Melb to LA from the American Airlines site, as opposed to the Qantas site, you save about $800 per ticket. Go figure.🌴

#stahlhouse #hollywoodnights #losangeles

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Sculpture

Untitled (3 views of slumped sprues)
2026
Steven Rendall @steven.rendall
sandblasted bronze studies, lost plastic

Reposted from @steven.rendall 🙏

#contemporarysculpture #sculpturalassemblage #xs_as_form #mixedmedia #sculptureinstallation

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Sculpture

Phosphorescent sculpture type things…
2026
Steven Rendall @steven.rendall

Reposted from @steven.rendall 🙏

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Exhibition One.
In Six Point Three.
(Next to the Fine Art offices in 6.3 & in the adjacent stairwell).
Thanks to students & staff for lending works:
Mika Cotton.
Clare Rae.
Vincent Arthur.
Selina Vincenzo.
Alice Naish.
Josh Rountos.
Arlo Montford.
Gabriel Nielsen.
It’s a start…

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Sculpture

Untitled (low relief)
2026
Steven Rendall @steven.rendall

Reposted from @steven.rendall 🙏

#contemporarysculpture #sculpturalassemblage #xs_as_form #mixedmedia #sculptureinstallation

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Orbyusssss
2022
Steven Rendall @steven.rendall
plastic (mostly), acrylic gel medium, screws
22 x 28 x 13 cm
courtesy Niagara Galleries
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Glas (in windows, stupid)
2022-2024
Steven Rendall @steven.rendall
plastic, acrylic gel medium
40 x 27 x 12 cm
courtesy Niagara Galleries @niagaragalleries
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Photography: Nicholas Mahady

Works by Steven Rendall in the group exhibition, HARD RUBBISH, at Daine Singer 2024.
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Steven Rendall’s work is littered with references to technology, art history, horror movies, weird fiction and pop music. Materials, images and meanings are scavenged and rearranged via various methods including painting, sculpture and video.
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Rendall was born in the UK in 1969. He moved to Melbourne in 2000 where he currently lives and works as a lecturer in the School of Art at RMIT University. He completed a BVA (Honours) at DeMontfort University in Leicester (1990-93), undertook post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools in London (1993-96) and completed a PhD at Monash University in 2015. Rendall has staged numerous exhibitions in Australia and elsewhere including Collision Drive at Wimbledon College of Arts (2019).
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His work is in private and public collections including The National Gallery of Victoria; The Monash University Collection; Artbank; RMIT University Art Collection; Geelong Gallery; Bendigo Art Gallery; The City of Melbourne; St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne; St. Helier Hospital London. He is a finalist in the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize and recently exhibited works at Heide Museum of Modern Art (2023); Blindside (2023) and RMIT Gallery (2023).

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#stevenrendall #contemporaryrecycledsculpture #xs_as_form #foundobjectsculpture #readymade

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