Braidwood-based artist Kate Stevens has won the inaugural Evelyn Chapman Art Award for her work Gaza, 2018, a painting based on imagery found in online news footage.
Congratulations to Tamara Dean who has taken out the $25,000 acquisitive Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award with her colour photo, Sacred Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) in Autumn from the series In our Nature 2017.
Congratulations to Tim Silver who has won the $20,000 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize for 2018.
Congratulations to Hoda Afshar who has won the $30,000 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.
Congratulations to Zoe Young who has won the $30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award for 2018.
Congratulations to Akil Ahamat who has won the $10,000 non-acquisitive John Fries Award, administered by the Copyright Agency.
Karen Quinlan has been appointed as the new director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
“This is a uniquely Australian landscape, in that it is marked by time. In regional areas buildings don’t get suddenly erased, as they do in the city, they just slowly weather away. This painting records an instance of that.”
Congratulations to Deanna Hitti who has won first prize in the 2018 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award with her artist’s book titled, TOWLA.
Congratulations to Natasha Walsh who has been awarded the 2018 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.
Congratulations to Jonathan Jones who has been named the 2018 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow in the field of visual arts.
The Melbourne-based artist Mirka Mora has died at the age of 90. “Mirka was a central figure in the story of Heide, and in Melbourne’s cultural life,” says Lesley Harding, artistic director of Heide Museum of Modern Art, where Mora’s next exhibition, Pas de Deux – Drawings and Dolls, had already been scheduled to open in October.
