Jenny Rodgerson wins the 2016 Portia Geach Memorial Award
This year, Jenny Rodgerson took out the $30,000 prize with her self portrait, Bound by the big red coat.
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This year, Jenny Rodgerson took out the $30,000 prize with her self portrait, Bound by the big red coat.
Tatsuo Miyajima: Connect with Everything is a survey show on the leading Japanese artist, spanning 30 years of work.
The exhibition is somewhat of a retrospective of Marani’s 25-year career as an artist.
“You might have heard recently about what’s going down in Sydney’s three major art schools. One has pretty much abandoned traditional art education like painting and sculpture for an offbeat hybrid art/technology thing that costs heaps to produce but has beautiful ’research output’ value.”
In this exhibition, Bloombox, Natasha Bieniek has created 10 miniature paintings of public gardens around Melbourne.
As a painter celebrated for his figurative portraits, Alan Jones recently stepped out from the depths of his warehouse studio and into the open air to tackle the longstanding tradition of landscape.
Despite a successful career spanning 35 years, it’s not easy to see work by the late American artist Mike Kelley in Australia.
For the last 30 years, artists David Jensz and Wendy Teakel have lived together and shared a studio.
Emerging artist Megan Seres and Perth based photographer Johannes Reinhart win the 2016 Moran Art Prizes.
Ariel Hassan’s works are a vortex that spins together his philosophical, literary and political concerns, destroying, rearranging and reconfiguring them.
In a tiny outbuilding at the artist’s Melbourne home, Brooks’s studio is briskly cold on a midwinter’s day, yet the colours and materials piled inside are warmly engaging.
Isaac Julien’s father wanted the artist to become a banker or a lawyer: the transferred ambition was his dad’s version of a better life. Julien’s parents wanted a better life for themselves too.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
Natalya Hughes has a conflicted fascination with modernist men like Freud, Kirchner and de Kooning. Jane O’Sullivan takes a look at The Interior, the Institute of Modern Art monograph on her recent practice, and discovers difficult and provocative questions about not just the representation of women in art and culture, but also the careers of women artists in Australia.
A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.
About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.
