
Ralph Kenke and Elmar Trefz win 2017 Digital Portraiture Award
Ralph Kenke and Elmar Trefz (Kenke+Trefz) have won the National Portrait Gallery’s 2017 Digital Portraiture Award with their mixed media installation, Selfie Factory.
Ralph Kenke and Elmar Trefz (Kenke+Trefz) have won the National Portrait Gallery’s 2017 Digital Portraiture Award with their mixed media installation, Selfie Factory.
Rosemary Laing creates elegant, conceptual photographs that explore cultural and historical notions of place.
Barnaby Smith spoke to Cigdem Aydemir about the politics of her work, #illridewithyou, and the legacy of Tracey Moffatt.
Margaret Ambridge has won the Prospect Portrait Prize with her drawing What Remains, an enigmatic charcoal work that depicts the imprint of her mother’s head, left on a pillow.
“It’s an oft-repeated truism that the art market is the largest unregulated money market in the world.”
Congratulations to Sarah Goffman who has taken out the $20,000 Still: National Still Life Award with her collection of recycled plastic containers painted to resemble antique Chinese ceramics.
The topic of the 7th Biennale of Moscow, under the curatorship of Yuko Hasegawa, is the age of the Anthropocene with the title Clouds = Forests.
Light Moves has suitably been itinerant since it set off for Darwin from the National Gallery of Australia at the end of 2015. The NGA travelling show is only now reaching its final venue, Wangaratta Art Gallery, recently added thanks to extra funds.
Daniel von Sturmer has been awarded $60,000 for the Urban Sculpture Prize for his light-based installation Electric Light (facts/figures/Federation Square).
For decades, Janet Laurence has probed human relationships with ecology by merging science-based observation and investigation with a visual poetry of alchemy, transparency, beauty and loss.
The idea of a series of Sidney Nolan paintings hanging in a newsagent’s shop window seems rather quaint.
Showcasing the work of its founding members, the exhibition is packed with works from the 1980s up to the present day. The Boomalli Ten feels like a celebration not just of those 10 artists but more broadly of the Indigenous Australian art now flourishing in the post-colonial present.