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Making History: Nolan at the Newsagent
The idea of a series of Sidney Nolan paintings hanging in a newsagent’s shop window seems rather quaint.
Tiarney Miekus
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Booming Culture: The Boomalli Ten celebrate 30 years
Showcasing the work of its founding members, the exhibition is packed with works from the 1980s up to the present day. The Boomalli Ten feels like a celebration not just of those 10 artists but more broadly of the Indigenous Australian art now flourishing in the post-colonial present.
Rebecca Shanahan
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Amalia Pica
Amalia Pica was born in Argentina and is currently working in London. Her exhibition at the IMA is to be presented in two parts, but her first solo in Australia is not the beginning of her relationship with Brisbane.
Louise Martin-Chew
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Jana Vodesil-Baruffi wins 2017 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture
Western Australian artist Jana Vodesil-Baruffi has won the $50,000 2017 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture with her aptly titled work, Black Swan. The Black Swan Prize is now in its 11th year.
Tiarney Miekus
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Craft Victoria has a new CEO and new premises
Melissa King became CEO of Craft Victoria in July 2017. Prior to joining the organisation, King was working with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Tracey Clement
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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.
Zara Sigglekow
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Interview
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).
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Podcast
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Art Guide Australia
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