Kate Stevens wins inaugural Evelyn Chapman Art Award
Braidwood-based artist Kate Stevens has won the inaugural Evelyn Chapman Art Award for her work Gaza, 2018, a painting based on imagery found in online news footage.
Braidwood-based artist Kate Stevens has won the inaugural Evelyn Chapman Art Award for her work Gaza, 2018, a painting based on imagery found in online news footage.
“The gallery spaces are flooded with energy; it is an amazingly uplifting and joyful feeling,” Terence Maloon exclaims. “I know that that sounds like a strange thing to say, but I can swear it.”
The Contiguity of Totalisation is a multimedia exhibition by three queer artists (Tarzan JungleQueen, Matthew van Roden and Koulla Roussos) that is currently showing in Ballarat as part of the 2018 Biennale of Australian Art (BOAA).
Congratulations to Tamara Dean who has taken out the $25,000 acquisitive Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award with her colour photo, Sacred Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) in Autumn from the series In our Nature 2017.
Congratulations to Tim Silver who has won the $20,000 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize for 2018.
How to make her long-term partner Chris Wallace-Crabbe’s poem The Universe Looks Down into a cohesive and interesting set of art pieces was Kristin Headlam’s central concern when creating her series of etchings that function together as an artists’ book, and as works in themselves.
Any visitor to Nicola Hooper’s Zoonoses exhibition will be immediately confronted by a gigantic mosquito and a gigantic tick hanging by fishing line from the ceiling.
Thai-Australian artist Kawita Vatanajyankur has long been interested in female labour and its relationship to textiles. Most recently she has explored this in video works in which she uses her own body to transform into various tools, such as a weaving shuttle or a spinning wheel.
Jeff Khan says the Liveworks program evolved organically, but one idea he kept returning to was about “bodies at the edge.”
Peter Raissis, curator of European prints and drawings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales where 65 of their paintings will be on view in Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage, insists that the show is not going to feel like walking through a textbook.
Congratulations to Hoda Afshar who has won the $30,000 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.
Congratulations to Zoe Young who has won the $30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award for 2018.
holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly) is a new solo exhibition from Shari O’Dwyer at The Condensery, Toogoolawah, Queensland, that explores the woven memories between generations of South Sea Islanders in the Australian colony.
For artist Joel Sherwood Spring, working in video offers an entrée, with accessible technologies and immediacy, to his ongoing fields of enquiry about identity and capital, on display at his show Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Tender Comrade, currently on show at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery, creates a new vocabulary of queer kinship by reimagining the relationship between artworks, bodies and space.
Tasmanian artist Helen Wright’s survey exhibition, Shapeshifting at Queen Victoria and Gallery: Art Gallery at Royal Park, chronicles decades of practice across mediums to reveal new meanings.
‘Vádye Eshgh (The Valley of Love)’ is a collaboration between Second Generation Collective and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah weaving through themes of beauty, diversity and the rebuilding of identity.
Mundamurra Ngijinda Dulk—My Island Home at Cairns Art Gallery, is a landmark exhibition dedicated to the late Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, one of the most singular voices in Australian contemporary painting.
