James Bugg wins 2018 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
Congratulations to James Bugg who has taken out the $50,000 first prize in the 2018 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
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Congratulations to James Bugg who has taken out the $50,000 first prize in the 2018 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
“Painting is always fictional,” says Tony Lloyd when discussing the links between photography, painting and realism.
In an art world where having a singular artistic refrain or preoccupation is an effective way to get noticed, Adelaide-based artist (and curator, writer) Brigid Noone exalts the merits of inhabiting multiple roles.
The lived experiences of Marlene Gilson and N.S. Harsha are separated by both time and space.
To coincide with The Field Revisited at NGV Melbourne, local Melbourne galleries have programmed complimentary shows. Most explore the influence of The Field on contemporary art practice, especially abstract art made today, often infused with colour that pops.
Tasmanian artist Nigel Hewitt meditates on the role of fire as a force of destruction, regrowth and change in his exhibition Recinder.
Transparency and other worries presents a new body of work at Brisbane’s Institute for Modern Art in which the artist probes our distanced relationship to mining.
Bold, obsessive and geometric. These are some of the words used to describe Carey Merten’s paintings.
One of the most intriguing highlights of the Next Wave Festival 2018 is actually not, strictly speaking, an artwork by one of the more than 40 creators selected to participate in the showcase of experimental art.
In Vanishing Point five artists come together to draw a net around the nebulous nature of islands.
Minister for the Arts Mitch Fifield announced on 21 April that Sam Walsh AO has been appointed the next Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts. Walsh succeeds outgoing Chair Rupert Myer AO and will commence a three-year term on July 1.
Born in Canada, Ciara Phillips has lived in the Scottish city of Glasgow for some time. Since its first modest outing in Hamburg, her ongoing project Workshop has made eight further appearances and the MCA installation is the latest incarnation of this experimental series.
The paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony.
A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.
Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty.
Offering a “new kind of hope,” Jacobus Capone’s solo show, End & Being, is the inaugural exhibition at the National Centre for Environmental Arts in Halls Gap.
At the City of Coffs Harbour’s Yarrila Arts and Museum (YAM), science meets speculation in the liminal space between nature and the human world.
‘North Terrace: worlds in relief’ showing at Samstag Museum of Art, invites viewers to reflect on the complicated legacies of the cultural institutions that line Adelaide’s North Terrace.
