Congratulations to Indigenous artist Brian Robinson for winning the annual Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award. Robinson took out the $15,000 prize with his linocut print, Land Sea Sky – Charting our place in the universe, 2016.
The national art prize showcases works created with, on, or about paper. This year a shortlist of 76 artworks was selected from a record 850 entries.
Denise Mimmocchi, judge of the 2017 Art on Paper Award and senior curator of Australian Art at the AGNSW, said of Robinson’s winning work, “Technically this work is incredibly sophisticated, it has a wonderful sense of the movements of the universe where land, sea and stars meet and gods mingle with figures of popular culture.”
Harriet Body won The Young and Early Career Artist’s Award of $5,000 for her work Wet Season, Dry Season, 2017.
The Friends of Hazelhurst Local Artist Prize of $5,000 was awarded to Michelle Cawthorn for Daughter, 2017.
The work of all 76 finalists is on show in the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2017 exhibition.
Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2017
Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery and Arts Centre
20 May – 16 July
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.
In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.
With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.
A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.
In Anmatyerr artist Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana’s first solo exhibition in Melbourne—which focuses on the Central Desert food source Arnwekety (bush plum)—the influence and love of her Country and culture is palpable. Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana is now showing at Niagara Galleries.
rhythm wRites, a new exhibition at QUT Art Museum, spans 30 years of Bigambul artist Leah King-Smith’s manifold art practice, covering painting, photography, sound and animation.
