The 2020 Head On Photo Festival is currently taking place online. And winners of the annual awards for photographs in portrait, landscape and student categories were announced on 1 May.
The 2020 Portrait Prize was awarded to Fiona Wolf-Symeonides for The gift. Runner-up awards were given to Australian photographer and filmmaker Jon Frank and Dutch photographer Jouk Oosterhof.
Australian Marcia Macmillan took out the 2020 Landscape Prize with her Whimsical warrior. The Australian runner-up award went to Nick Moir and English photographer Paul Carruthers was honoured with the international runner-up prize.
Joel Parkinson, Alice Tasker and Lewis Dobbin all received prizes in the student category which is open to students K-12.
This year the prizes were judged anonymously by a panel of photographers, editors and industry professionals.
Festival director and founder Moshe Rosenzveig OAM said, “The Head On Photo Awards are at the centre of our festival and showcase incredible talent from professionals and amateurs alike. The judges and I have been blown away by the high standard of this year’s submissions… We look forward to sharing the winners and 2020 program with our international community.”
The digital Head On Festival, which features artist talks, panel discussions, Webinars, and 110 exhibitions, is on from 1-17 May.
Endlessly inventive, the work of Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-based artist Scotty So spans photography, painting, video work, and drag performance. With a dual exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, So talks about pageantry, begonias and queens.
Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce has earned critical acclaim for her research in nuclear testing and its ongoing impact on First Nations communities. With a survey at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Scarce speaks to her blown glass forms.
A new exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery, drawn from the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, brings the Belle Èpoque era to life through impressionist paintings and antique ephemera. View, in pictures, a slice of Parisian history.
Annika Harding’s latest work at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, focuses on the Atherton Tablelands, exploring the tension between natural beauty, relentless meteorological forces, and the built environment that supports local agricultural communities.
CREATION is a new religion by artist Deborah Kelly, radically rethinking how we collectively come together. Having engaged with communities nation-wide, inviting audiences to dance, sing, listen and perform together, Kelly is now taking CREATION to regional Victoria. Curator Ineke Dane talks with Kelly about why she wanted to start a new religion, and where it will go in the future.
From revamped industrial sites to brand new spaces in Sydney, to openings in Adelaide, Melbourne, Cottesloe and Darwin—across Australia there’s a flurry of new and reopening gallery activity.
