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Congratulations to Keith Burt and Gerwyn Davies who have both been announced as finalists in this years Brisbane Portrait Prize, 2024. The Brisbane Portrait Prize celebrates the city of Brisbane/Meeanjin with all artists and sitters having a connection to the city. Brisbane Portrait Prize State Library of Queensland, Brisbane 3 August – 10 November 2024 […]

Laura Jones, Guido Maestri and Ben Quilty are currently featured in the exhibition ‘New South: Recent painting from Southern Australia’ at Hazelhurst Arts Centre. The exhibition showcases the work and stories of a diverse group of painters from Southern Australia. For further information please visit the link in bio. New South: Recent painting from Southern […]

Juz Kitson is featured in the exhibition ‘XX’ at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery. ‘XX’ celebrates female ceramists and the power of the female touch in shaping this medium as a vessel for self-expression. The exhibition aims to challenge preconceived perspectives on this traditional art form, typically known for its functionality over its creativity. XX Bundaberg […]

Celia Gullett ‘Shaping Colour’ exhibition has opened at South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA). “Celia Gullett has developed and honed her own, quietly distinct, form of minimal colourist painting. Working in a concurrent rather than sequential pattern, her experiments in surface, scale, light and form are unified by a subtly potent palette. In their […]

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 Bardip Perth Cultural Centre, Perth / Boorloo […]

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 Award Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret […]

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 winner will be announced on […]

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 of past, present and emerging). […]

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 full collection can be viewed online […]

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 healers; and extreme care. Part One […]

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 for artists to explore the […]

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 answer this question. The episode, […]

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 advocacy event. ‘I was amazed by […]

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 venues at Fed Square, viewers […]

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 (Sulman Prize) Guido Maestri (Archibald Prize) Amber Wallis (Sulman Prize) The winners will be […]

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, Hobart TAS, from 03 – 25 August 2024 with the winners […]

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. Congratulations and good luck to […]

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 a prosaic hand form the […]

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 will be announced on Saturday 31 […]

Gerwyn Davies is featured in the exhibition ‘synergy: identity, portraiture and the moving body’ at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre. ‘synergy: identity, portraiture and the moving body’ presents a group exhibition of four Australian-based artists who explore personal and cultural forms of identity. The works in this exhibition span and transcend multiple […]