Sydney multimedia artist Alex Gawronski and Melbourne-based conceptual art duo Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley have been awarded the 2018 fellowships by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).
Congratulations to Denis Beaubois who has been awarded the first Create NSW and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) NSW Visual Arts Mid-Career/Established Fellowship.
For Paul Yore’s latest solo exhibition at Neon Parc, Your Capital is at Risk, the artist has mined his own practice in the same way he mines popular culture: pulling together every possible scrap of material into a jangling visual cacophony.
Love takes many forms. In Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam, love is expressed through prayer, spirituality, hospitality, friendship, and sex. It is woven into textiles and adorned with gold leaf; shaped into silverware and glazed into tiles and pots.
Watters Gallery, which opened in 1964, is staging its final exhibition, a selection of figurative works from the estate of Tony Tuckson, a painter known primarily as a gifted abstractionist.
NSW-based artist and theatre designer Antoinette Barbouttis has won the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture with a large charcoal drawing.
Sydney-based artist Julia Davis has taken out the $15,000 City of Devonport National Art Award: tidal.18 with a single channel video loop titled, Undercurrent, 2017.
With an ongoing attentiveness to questions of identity and performance, Lili Reynaud Dewar’s exhibition TEETH, GUMS, MACHINES, FUTURE, SOCIETY, looks at how bodies both carry history and respond to place.
The art that emerges here has little to do with wearability, instead it has generated work that may conceal the body as much as reveal it.
The early evening launch of Daniel Boyd’s Rainbow Serpent could not have been better timed. After stepping into the darkened gallery space, soft evening light spilling through circular cut-outs at the far end of the room immediately captures my attention.
Congratulations to Lynn Savery who has been awarded the 2018 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. The prize was the first portrait competition Savery entered, and she won the $150,000 with a portrait of herself and her dog.
In the new exhibition at Anna Schwartz Gallery, KINDNESS IS SO GANGSTER, a part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival program, Parr presents his likeness in a new medium: glass.
“I am interested in situations where the art historical, psychological, social, and physical worlds collide, and there is a thickness in these situations” – Agatha Gothe-Snape
To augment the visual appeal of his paintings, Dale Frank works directly onto glass and Perspex to capture a reflective element canvas does not offer.
It All Started With a Stale Sandwich is a documentary about the 50-year history of Kaldor Public Art Projects, made by London-born, Sydney-based film director Samantha Lang.
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