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Pierre Mukeba wins the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize
Congolese born artist Pierre Mukeba has won the non-acquisitive $15,000 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize for his suite of figurative textile works.
By Zara Sigglekow
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Mira Gojak
Born in Adelaide in 1963, Mira Gojak pursued science initially, with degrees in both Zoology and Psychology. She talks about a kind of restlessness that took hold while on practical placement, which necessitated a change of tack – in 1989, she moved to Melbourne to study painting at the Victorian College (then located in Prahran).
By Varia Karipoff
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Podcast: Simone Slee on Sculpture, Vulnerability and Failure
For Simone Slee the perfect sculpture is the sculpture that ‘fails’. These failures come in many guises; sometimes her works are left to the fallibility of humans, cucumbers and rocks.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Elisabeth Cummings: Interior Landscapes
Elisabeth Cummings: Interior Landscapes, curated by Sioux Garside, will survey over 40 years of the artist’s practice, combining work over several generations, from both private and public collections.
By Naomi Gall
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Jenny Orchard Wins National Self-Portrait Prize 2017
Jenny Orchard has won the National Self-Portrait Prize 2017 for her earthenware figure Self Portrait as a Multispecies Activist.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Romancing the skull
Romancing the skull at the Art Gallery of Ballarat explores the ongoing visual appeal of the human skull, showing works from the Middle Ages to now.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Claudia Nicholson awarded NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship
Claudia Nicholson has been announced as the 2017 Create NSW and Artspace Fellow for emerging artists.
By Art Guide Australia
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Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits
In general, the photos surrounding the process of filmmaking are not thought of as art objects or as portraiture. Yet Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits, presented by the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, displays these photographs precisely as portraiture.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum
“Rembrandt and Vermeer are the artists everyone knows,” says Raissis. “But no doubt there’ll be lots of surprises, like the female painter Rachel Ruysch, whose floral still lifes are astonishing demonstrations of technical wizardry.”
By Tracey Clement
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Miranda Skoczek: Rag Rugs and Lion Heads
Miranda Skoczek’s abstract paintings evoke old walls with layers of forms and shapes that emerge over time.
By Louise Martin-Chew
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Remedial Works
Curated by Andrew Varano, Remedial Works presents six artists who regulate and remediate, invoking an armoury of talismanic products and wellness strategies.
By Sheridan Coleman
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Best in show: graduate round-up 2017
End of year graduate exhibitions are a heady mix of celebration and contemporary art perusing.
By Zara Sigglekow
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