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Work by Michael Cook will be featured in Les Recontres d’Arles 2025. Arguably the world’s oldest most renowned photography festival, Michael Cook is among 20 Australian artists featured in this year’s iteration, which will open in July in Arles, France. This Australian component of the festival, ‘On Country: Photography from Australia’, brings together work by […]

Congratulations to Claudia Greathead who is a finalist in ’15 Artists 2025′ prize at Redcliffe Art Gallery with her work, ‘Ivanhoe Garden’. Since its conception, each year the City of Moreton Bay Council invites a selection of artists to participate in the ’15 artists’ exhibition. The aim of the prize is to highlight recent works […]

Congratulations to Amber Wallis who is a finalist in the 2025 Bayside Painting Prize with her work ‘Red woman through the drapes and in the land’. This annual award celebrates the breadth and diversity of contemporary painting in Australia today. Comprising of three awards, including the Beckett Local Prize (named in honor of modernist painter […]

Laura Jones has been featured in ‘The VL50′ by Vogue Living Australia, their list forecasting some of the best designers, architects, landscapers and artists to watch in 2025. In the article by Lindyl Zanbaka, Laura shares her perspectives on connecting with others creatively, “…and using their platforms to fight for environmental and social causes” (Laura […]

A new site-specific sculptural work by Lincoln Austin has been installed at the Rockhampton Museum of Art. Titled,’The Weight of Experience’ and created with the assistance of Chelsea Jewell, the suspended sculptural form catches the light and casts shadows as it moves, while at the same time, the sculpture is overlayed with a colour coded […]

Congratulations to Amber Wallis, Juz Kitson, Victoria Reichelt and Jason Fitzgerald who are finalists in the 2025 Muswellbrook Art Prize. Conceived in 1958, this acquisitive award commends artists across three categories: painting, works on paper and ceramics. The exhibition of finalists will open on 27 March and winners will be announced at the opening on […]

Victoria Reichelt’s 2019 work, ‘La Mere (after Elizabeth Nourse)’, has been unveiled as the 2025 feature billboard artwork at Melbourne school, Loreto Toorak. First proposed in 2015 and now in its 11th year, the art billboard curated Therese Gilligan, has previously featured works by some of Australia’s foremost female artists. Image: install view of ‘La […]

Ahead of his presentation at Melbourne Art Fair, Michael Cook discusses his new series, ‘Individuation’. Speaking with the Fair, Michael provides insight on his decades-spanning career, exploring Australia’s layered histories through his photographs, and more. Michael Cook’s magnificent hyper-real photographs often capture roles in reversal, histories re-written, testing viewers’ relationships to aspects of Australia’s colonial […]

Richard Lewer’s body of work ‘Steve’ (2023-24) has recently been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia (NGA). Incorporating a stop-motion animation and 14 paintings on Laminex tabletops, this body of work tells the story of Steve and his family as they come to terms with his Dementia diagnosis. The exhibition ‘Richard Lewer: Steve’ will […]

Congratulations to Gerwyn Davies who is a finalist in the 2024 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award with his work, ‘Bather II’. This acquisitive award is one of Australia’s most prestigious prizes for contemporary photography and this year’s iteration returns to HOTA Gallery on the Gold Coast. The exhibition of finalists is current at […]

Congratulations to Victoria Reichelt who has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award in Queensland Regional Art Awards for her work ‘Focus 4’. This award commends landscape-based artwork (of any medium) and commemorates the founder of Flying Arts, Mervyn ‘Merv’ Moriarty OAM, who was a keen plein-air painter. For more […]

Congratulations to Natasha Bieniek whose 2016 portrait of Wendy Whiteley, has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The portrait, depicting Whiteley sitting in her garden in Lavender Bay, was awarded highly commended in the 2016 Archibald Prize. To read more about this artwork, please click here. Image credit: Natasha Bieniek, Wendy […]

Ben Quilty has been featured in the Weekend Australian Magazine, coinciding with his new solo exhibition, ’20 Years’ now open at Jan Murphy Gallery. In the article, Jane Albert discusses the premise of the exhibition and explores the stories and pivotal moments behind some of the key works presented. To read more, please click here. […]

Works by Amber Wallis and Lincoln Austin can be seen in the new exhibition at Ipswich Art Gallery,’Arriving Slowly’. The exhibition has been programmed to coincide with the loan of works by Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin and Gwyn Hanssen-Pigott, offered through the National Gallery of Australia’s ‘Sharing the National Collection/ Art Across Australia’ program. ‘Arriving […]

An interview with Ben Quilty is featured in the November/December issue of Art Guide Australia. In the article, writer Georgia Spain and Quilty discuss the artist’s thematic concerns about the future and the catharsis of his creative process. A survey of Quilty’s work will be presented in the forthcoming exhibition, ‘20 Years’, opening at Jan […]

Congratulations to Lucy Culliton, Jacqueline Hennessy and Victoria Reichelt who have been selected as finalists in the 2024 Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award. The biennial award, celebrates realistic portraiture by Australian artists in memory of artist, patron and avid supporter of the arts, Shirley Hannan. Selected works must accurately portray a subject who is known […]

Host of the Talking with Painters podcast, Maria Stoljar, will join Robert Malherbe and Keith Burt in conversation at Tweed Regional Gallery on Friday, 25 October. Attendees to the artist talk can enjoy after-hours access to ‘A Dictionary for Painting’ exhibition in which Robert and Keith’s work is currently on display. Robert Malherbe and Keith […]

Richard Lewer’s work has been selected as the 2024 Ann Bennett Acquisition for the Heide Museum of Modern Art. The works in the exhibition highlight personal missteps and social blunders, focusing on two particularly awkward encounters: one during his residency at McCahon House in New Zealand (Aotearoa) and another at the International Studio and Curatorial […]

Don’t miss the chance to hear Gerwyn Davies discuss his artistic practice this weekend at HOTA. Davies utilizes readymade and everyday materials to create characters through costumes that both conceal and transform the body. These stylised, striking and exaggerated transformations are not only visually captivating but also part of his ongoing exploration of photographic self-projection. […]

Leonard Brown is featured in the exhibition ‘Logos / Λογότυπα’ at Hazelhurst Arts Centre, until 17 November 2024. ‘Logos / Λογότυπα’ explores Greek culture and identity within Australian art from the 1960s to the 2020s. Curated by Kon Gouriotis OAM, the exhibition is presented in collaboration with Saint Stylianos Greek Orthodox Parish, Gymea. Logos / […]