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Akil Ahamat wins 2018 John Fries Award
Congratulations to Akil Ahamat who has won the $10,000 non-acquisitive John Fries Award, administered by the Copyright Agency.
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Where East
Wendy Sharpe and Bernard Ollis present the East in its everyday hues rather than as the fabled other.
Tracey Clement
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Alex Seton explores our cultural baggage in Cargo
What does your life weigh? This is the unspoken question that resides at the heart of Alex Seton’s exhibition Cargo at Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney.
Tai Mitsuji
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National Portrait Gallery of Australia appoints Karen Quinlan as new director
Karen Quinlan has been appointed as the new director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
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Vanessa Kelly wins 2018 John Leslie Art Prize
“This is a uniquely Australian landscape, in that it is marked by time. In regional areas buildings don’t get suddenly erased, as they do in the city, they just slowly weather away. This painting records an instance of that.”
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John Stezaker: Lost World
Not unlike the vintage photographs he works with, John Stezaker was unearthed after decades of obscurity.
Anna Dunnill
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Angela Tiatia: Holding On
Angela Tiatia’s work resonates with bravery and energy – in Holding On, she pits herself against the forces of nature.
Varia Karipoff
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Magic Zine: YOU ARE ART
Flower Feelings, a new zine by Adelaide-based artist Lucy Thomas which combines the symbolic meaning of flowers with personal anecdotes, is being launched as part of the exhibition Magic Zine: YOU ARE ART at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery.
Zara Sigglekow
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Lisa Garland and Lucia Usmiani
Gallery director Steven Joyce says the contrast between Garland’s black-and-white photographs and Usmiani’s colourful work will present well visually. “They’re showing jointly and will feed off each other,” he says.
Nadiah Abdulrahim
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Captain of Industry
John Nicholson’s latest body of work draws on industrial production, both in its medium and as its muse.
Andrew Stephens
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Shirley Macnamara: Layered threads
Spinifex is the material of choice for Macnamara, who twists, coils and weaves the grass to create forms that are at once delicate, intricate, complex and subtle.
Laura Couttie
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Janet Tavener: The Last Seed
Without seeds we would starve and The Last Seed was inspired by the threat posed by climate change to the so-called ‘doomsday’ seed vault in Norway.
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