Jahnne Pasco-White wins Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize
Jahnne Pasco-White has won the $50,000 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize.
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Jahnne Pasco-White has won the $50,000 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize.
Rew Hanks has won the $16,000 first prize in the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award with his two-metre-long linocut, Gone Fishing East of Faskrudsfjordur.
“After being butchered, a body can never have its wholeness back,” recites Mombaça from “The Enciphered Letters to Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro”, a tribute to a young Brazilian black trans artist whose work Mombaça finds powerful.
Visual artists Angela Tiatia and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran are among the nine Sidney Myer Creative Fellows for 2019. Nominated artists must meet the criteria of “outstanding talent and exceptional professional courage.”
This year, Tony Costa won the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Lindy Lee. The Sulman prize was won by McLean Edwards with The first girl that knocked on his door and Sylvia Ken was awarded the Wynne for Seven Sisters.
Reko Rennie has been awarded the second Artbank + ACMI Commission, with the artist creating a new video work titled What Do We Want.
Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung woman Stacie Piper has been appointed as First Peoples Curator at the TarraWarra Museum of Art as part of the Yalingwa initiative.
Susan Norrie has been awarded $50,000 as recipient of the third annual Don Macfarlane Prize. The award is given to a senior Australian artist to spend as they please; no particular outcomes are required.
Blak Douglas has won the 2019 Kilgour Prize with his large graphic portrait of actress and singer Ursula Yovich.
Sally Robinson has won the 2019 Portia Geach Memorial Award. The Sydney-based artist took out the $30,000 portrait painting prize for women with her self-portrait titled Body in a box.
The Indigenous artist took out the annual $100,000 prize for landscape painting with his densely layered canvas titled Four Dreamings.
Delving into the archives at State Library of Victoria, Höflich will research magical practices as ways of measuring and predicting, in response to a culture shaped by digital algorithms.
