20 July 2024
Congratulations to Victoria Reichelt who has been announced as a finalist in The Lester Prize 2024 for her portrait of fellow artist Lucy Culliton (and her dog Lacey). The Lester Prize is one of the nation’s most recognised and prestigious portraiture prize. The Lester Prize WA Museum Boola…
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20 July 2024
Congratulations to Amber Wallis who has been announced as a finalist in the Wollumbin Art Award (WAA) 2024. The biannual award celebrates the calibre and range of artists living and working in the Northern Rivers and surrounds. The winner will be announced on Saturday 7th September 2024. Wollumbin Art…
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3 July 2024
Congratulations to Natasha Bieniek and Amber Wallis who have been shortlisted for the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. The prestigious acquisitive prize is judged this year by José Da Silva (Director, UNSW Galleries), Jane Devery (Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art) and Jason Smith (Director & CEO, Geelong Gallery). The…
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22 June 2024
Congratulations to Betty Muffler who has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2024 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) with her work, ‘Ngangkari Ngura – Healing Country’. Painted in a monochromatic palette, Betty captures and represents her deep connection to Country and their Tjukurpa (cultural heritage…
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22 June 2024
Zaachariaha Fielding collaboration with Romance Was Born The new collection by Romance Was Born was created in collaboration and inspired by Zaachariaha Fielding and his radically joyful and storied paintings. ‘The Nothing, Resort 25’ collection debuted at Australian Fashion Week and is slated for release in late 2024. The…
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22 June 2024
Betty Muffler is featured in the exhibition Duty of Care at the Institute of Modern Art. In partnership between the Institute of Modern Art and Griffith University Art Museum, Duty of Care explores familial, institutional, and professional care; care and gender; care and race; care and medicine; artists as…
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18 June 2024
Congratulations to Keith Burt and Mark Tweedie who have been announced as finalists in the National Portrait Gallery’s Darling Portrait Prize 2024. The Darling Portrait Prize is awarded every two years to an Australian portrait painter, in tribute to Mr L Gordon Darling AC CMG. The prize offers a platform…
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12 June 2024
Richard Lewer has spoken with the ABC for the new TV series The Art Of… Lewer and show host Naamila Benson, discuss if art can help us accept our failures and shortcomings. Benson talks to singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer, artists Yhonnie Scarce and Richard Lewer, and jazz musician Audrey Powne to…
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7 June 2024
Congratulations to Laura Jones, winner of the Archibald Prize 2024 for her portrait of Tim Winton. In 2016, Laura Jones undertook an artist residency to study the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, leading to her exhibition Bleached. Afterwards, she met acclaimed author and conservationist Tim Winton at an environmental…
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1 June 2024
Michael Cook’s ‘Invasion’ series is featured in ‘The Black Infinite’ at RISING Festival in Melbourne. Presented by Fed Square and RISING and co-curated by Kate ten Buuren and Kimberley Moulton, ‘The Blak Infinite’ is a site for sharing first peoples connections to the cosmos, political constellations and futures. Across multiple…
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30 May 2024
Congratulations to the following artists who are finalists in the 2024 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. Natasha Bieniek (Archibald, Sulman and Wynne Prize) Zaachariaha Fielding (Sulman and Wynne Prize) David Griggs (Archibald Prize) Laura Jones (Archibald and Sulman Prize) Iluwanti Ken (…
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9 May 2024
Congratulations to Zaachariaha Fielding, Iluwanti Ken and Laura Patterson who have been selected as finalists in the Hadley’s Art Prize. The awards celebrate the best contemporary Australian landscape artists working within a two dimensional medium. The awards can be seen at Hadley’s Orient Hotel,…
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8 May 2024
Congratulations to Marina Strocchi who has been selected as a finalist for the Omnia Art Prize and Exhibition. The exhibition aims to highlight the best of Australian contemporary art across a range of mediums and is open to established and emerging Australian artists. Winners will be announced on 24 May.
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8 May 2024
Martin Smith is now showing ‘Dodging chainsaws’ at Logan Art Gallery. Included among five new exhibitions at the gallery, the retrospective exhibition covers the past 20 years of Smiths art told through text, images, and photographs. Smith’s technique of cutting and erasing surface pigments to create a subtext, or over-writing his images in…
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2 May 2024
Betty Muffler has been announced as a finalist in The Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s National Works on Paper Award (NWOP). Established in 1998 the awards celebrate artists across Australia who specialise in drawing, printmaking, digital prints and paper sculpture. The winner of the 2024 National Works on Paper award…
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