Congratulations to Linda Marrinon who has been awarded the second annual $50,000 Don Macfarlane Prize. The Melbourne-based artist, who first came to prominence with her paintings in the 1980s, is now best known for figurative terracotta sculptures.
Mona founder David Walsh AO has announced a collaboration between the Melbourne-based Hotham Street Ladies and Pop Architecture as the winner of the 2018 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects.
Ganambarr, who is from the remote community of Gangan in East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, took out the top prize with a large etching on aluminium titled Buyku.
The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Melbourne has appointed Adam Harding as its new director. Community engagement and artists having a voice are two CCP strengths Harding is keen to continue.
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.
