Brisbane-based Aboriginal artist Judy Watson has been commissioned to make a major public artwork for the City of Sydney’s Eora Journey project which seeks to acknowledge clans of the Eora Nation and honour the First Peoples of Australia.
The South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has announced that Rhana Devenport will be the new director of the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA). Devenport will take up the position in October 2018.
As part of a new exhibition, State of the Union, which explores partnerships between trade unions and arts workers, a group of Melbourne artists has launched a project to expose exploitation in the arts in Australia.
Tasmanian artist Neil Haddon has won the second annual Hadley’s Art Prize with his painting The Visit.
Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist Jude Walton is the recipient of the 2018 Georges Mora Fellowship.
Renowned Indigenous artist Destiny Deacon has been awarded the inaugural $60,000 Yalingwa Fellowship.
Congratulations to Laith McGregor who has won the $15,000 Paul Guest Prize for Drawing with his pencil drawing on paper, This Old Island, 2018.
From 2019 Mona Foma, the annual summer music, arts and culture festival, will leave Hobart and head to Launceston.
Brook Andrew will be the artistic director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (BoS), due to be held in 2020.
Congratulations to Andrew Browne who has been awarded the $30,000 Geelong contemporary art prize for 2018.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley met at the Arts Centre Melbourne last weekend to announce plans for a major redevelopment of Melbourne’s Southbank arts precinct.
This year John Mawurndjul, from Arnhem Land, NT, and Mavis Ngallametta, from the Aurukun community, Qld, both received Red Ochre Awards.
