The annual Hatched National Graduate Show showcases works by talented recent art school graduates from around the country.
Sydney-based artist Tina Havelock Stevens has won the 65th Blake Prize for her performance video work, Giant Rock, 2017.
The second Mordant Family VR commission has been awarded to Joan Ross who will realise an ambitious project in the style of a video game for ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image).
NSW Minister for the Arts Don Harwin has announced that Dr Michael Brand has been reappointed as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW).
This year the prize went to Yvette Coppersmith for her Self-portrait, after George Lambert.
Congratulations to James Bugg who has taken out the $50,000 first prize in the 2018 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
Minister for the Arts Mitch Fifield announced on 21 April that Sam Walsh AO has been appointed the next Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts. Walsh succeeds outgoing Chair Rupert Myer AO and will commence a three-year term on July 1.
One of Melbourne’s iconic public galleries, Heide Museum of Modern Art, announced this week that Dr Natasha Cica has resigned as director.
Melbourne photographer Polixeni Papapetrou died on Wednesday 11 April, following a long illness. Widely recognised as one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists, Papapetrou came to photography later in life and quickly rose to prominence.
The National, an ambitious biennial initiative staged across three major Sydney institutions, will be back in 2019.
Following weeks of speculation, Mitzevich will be replacing current NGA Director Gerard Vaughan, who is retiring from his post on July 1.
Lee Grant has been awarded the National Photographic Portrait Prize for her black-and-white portrait Charlie, and Filomena Rizzo was highly commended for the photograph of her daughter, My Olivia.
