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Gerwyn Davies on Art Edit cover

Gerwyn Davies’ work ‘Fountain’ is featured on the cover of Art Edit Magazine (issue #26). ‘Fountain’ is from the artist’s recent 2020 series, ‘Utopia’. For more information on this issue of Art Edit Magazine, please click here. Image credit: Art Edit Magazine, issue 26. Artwork: Gerwyn Davies, ‘Fountain’, 2020,…
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Ben Quilty at Cairns Art Gallery

This exhibition brings together two of the artist’s works, ‘Fairy Bower Rorschach’ from the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection and ‘Kuta Rorschach No. 2’ from the Bendigo Art Gallery collection. With the Rorschach works, Quilty selects images of tourist destinations with a dark history behind them, reworks them,…
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Monica Rohan's Sunny Side Up light box installation, image courtesy of Brisbane City Council

Monica Rohan in Brisbane City installation ‘Sunny Side Up’

Monica Rohan’s work is currently featured in Brisbane City’s Outdoor Gallery exhibition ‘Sunny Side Up’. Consisting of light boxes, vitrines and digital projections, the ‘Sunny Side Up’ exhibition presents art in public spaces around Brisbane City. Monica Rohan’s artworks can be seen installed in the light box display in Fish…
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Ben Quilty featured in Juxtapoz

Ben Quilty’s recent solo exhibition ‘Still life after the virus’ has been featured in Juxtapoz magazine online. Writer Sasha Bogojev explores the artist’s latest body of work, referencing his major influences and creative response to the global pandemic. To read to the article, please click here.  Image credit: install…
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Mark Tweedie in the John Stringer Prize

Protégé artist, Mark Tweedie, is a finalist in the 2020 John Stringer Prize with his work ‘One is the loneliest number (Misery Beach)’. Established in 2015 in honour of the late John Stringer, this award commissions six artists to create new work from which the winning artist will be determined by…
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Jason Fitzgerald in the Blacktown City Art Prize

Jason Fitzgerald has been announced as a finalist in the 2020 Blacktown City Art Prize with his work ‘Concertinaed technicolor’. Now in its 25th year, the Blacktown City Art Prize is an open themed award with a prize pool of $20,000. The winners will be announced 28 November. Blacktown City…
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Victoria Reichelt survey exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery

Victoria Reichelt’s survey show, ‘Archive’, is now open at Tweed Regional Gallery. This exhibition presents works spanning Victoria’s 20 year-long career, highlighting her dedication to the documentation of transitional spaces and endangered artefacts. Tweed Regional Gallery will be hosting a talk with the artist in conversation with Susi Muddiman OAM…
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Adam Pyett at Tweed Regional Gallery

Adam Pyett will be featured in the forthcoming group exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery, ‘Margaret’s House’. This exhibition will present key works by Margaret Olley alongside new paintings by Adam Pyett, Nicholas Harding and Pam Tippett. The artists were invited to explore the re-creation of the Margaret Olley’s home studio…
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Jason Fitzgerald in the 2020 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize

Congratulations to Jason Fitzgerald who has been announced as a finalist in the 2020 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize with his work, ‘Keeping it together’. Jason is among 56 emerging and established artists shortlisted out of a total of 844 entries. With 2020 marking the 20th anniversary of the award, this…
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Lottie Consalvo and Robert Malherbe in the Paddington Art Prize

Congratulations to Lottie Consalvo and Robert Malherbe who have been announced as finalists in the Paddington Art Prize with their works ‘The Seas End’ and ‘Canola Fields’. The Paddington Art Prize is an acquisitive award for paintings inspired by the Australian landscape. The winner will be announc‪ed at the opening…
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Lucy Culliton interview with Richard Morecroft

Lucy Culliton has been interviewed by Richard Morecroft for his Youtube series ‘Exhibition – with Richard Morecroft’. Discussing her new exhibition, ‘Stay warm, be cool,’ Richard explores the artist’s “affectionate nostalgia and celebration of the ordinary and utilitarian” – themes which lie at the core of the artist’s paintings.
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Keith Burt wins the Brisbane Portrait Prize

Congratulations to Keith Burt who has been announced as the winner of the 2020 Brisbane Portrait Prize (Lord Mayor’s Prize) with his work, ‘Urban artists’. Keith’s painting is a portrait of Matthew and Daniel Tobin – founders of Urban Art Projects. The Brisbane Portrait Prize is open to any artist…
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Victoria Reichelt in the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize

Congratulations to Victoria Reichelt who has been shortlisted for the 2020 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize with her work, ‘Australian Landscape (smiley) 4′. Launched in 2017, this annual prize aims to advance opportunity for both emerging and established female artists. Open to artists from across Australia working in any medium,…
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Archibald and Wynne Prize Finalists

Congratulations to the following artists who are finalists in the 2020 Archibald and Wynne prizes. Natasha Bieniek (Wynne Prize) Lucy Culliton (Archibald and Wynne Prize) William Mackinnon (Archibald Prize) Guy Maestri (Archibald and Wynne Prize) Monica Rohan (Archibald Prize) The winner of the…
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Heidi Yardley in the Paul Guest Prize

Heidi Yardley has been announced as a finalist in the 2020 Paul Guest Prize with her work ‘Always the same ghost’. Held biannually at Bendigo Art Gallery, this award celebrates contemporary drawing, attracting entries from all over Australia. This year’s prize will be judged by Lesley Harding, Artistic Director of…
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