Ceramic Art Awards
Having taken a quiet back seat for more than a few years, ceramic art is experiencing a welcome resurgence.
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Having taken a quiet back seat for more than a few years, ceramic art is experiencing a welcome resurgence.
Congratulations to Swiss jeweller David Bielander for winning the 2016 Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery.
Yorta Yorta artists Jack Anselmi and Cynthia Hardie have won the 2016 Indigenous Ceramic Art Award with their installation, Midden.
Opportunity beckons at the Murray Art Museum Albury for local Jo Davenport’s expressive, layered and shifting paintings.
The annual John Fries Award for emerging artists has been won by Eric Demetriou.
In a world of porous borders, artist Ivan Sikic traverses contexts and countries drawing the global gaze to social justice issues.
Nicholas Mangan’s practice mines themes of extended time, the geological periods that we try to define but can’t quite grasp, and the impacts of capitalism on the environment.
“The sculptures touch on stories of migration, of being out of place, of being the ‘arrivist’.” Weaving a folkloric story, deeply connected to the landscape, Due North hinges on Anderson’s multidisciplinary practice.
Blanchflower’s Canopy series is being showcased at the newly refurbished Drill Hall Gallery at ANU. The solo show spans over 30 years of work and features paintings borrowed from national, state and private collections.
As titles go, Genesis of a Painter: Guy Warren at 95 is pretty literal. The exhibition, which was curated by Barry Pearce, former curator of Australian art at the Art Gallery of NSW, spanned Warren’s entire career, right up to 2015.
A major focus of Parr’s practice over the last four decades has been the collection of information, artists’ ephemera and documentation of experimental practitioners, both international and Australian.
The welcoming atmosphere of the room is enhanced by carefully chosen chamomile-lavender scented candles. I’ll sit in a chair while you can sit on the couch, and so we can begin our art therapy session.
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.
Arwin Hidayat’s TERNYATA AKU MASIH BERBAHAS (It Turns Out I’m Still Breathing) at Mitchell Fine Art, presents a lifetime of visual storytelling, experimentation and curiosity.
For Listening Acts at the Now or Never Festival, the music and performance company Chamber Made invited artists to interrogate the intersection between the body, listening and technology.
Embodied, the first iteration of Arts Project Australia’s new exhibition series, Limitless, sees artists Bronwyn Hack and Mark Smith create their most ambitious works yet, with the body at the centre of it all.
