Congratulations to Kendal Heyes who has won the annual Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.
Artist and architect Professor Richard Goodwin was the judge this year and he awarded the $25,000 acquisitive prize to Heyes for his work, Boat 1, 2017.
Heyes says that the image is based on a news photograph of a refugee boat, blown up through the process of drawing until it becomes deliberately ambiguous.
In doing this, Heyes hopes his work will be a “reminder of the issue, without being an overt political statement.”
“By becoming slightly obscure in terms of its specificity (when you get close it dissolves into a sea of dots) the image draws you in,” he explains.
Works by all 46 finalists are on show in The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2017 Exhibition.
The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2017 Exhibition
Adelaide Perry Gallery
25 February – 24 March
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.
In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.
With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.
In two new exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, René Magritte and Cao Fei speak to each other across cultures and eras about the way that perception can unsettle reality—and the places the real intersects with the surreal.
Bringing together 70 artists from 30 countries, the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art fosters connections across cultures and borders, and translates cultural knowledge for the present day.
Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.
