Jenny Watson awarded the 2018 Mordant Family/Australia Council Fellowship
Jenny Watson has received the latest Mordant Family/Australia Council Fellowship. She will spend two months at the American Academy in Rome.
Jenny Watson has received the latest Mordant Family/Australia Council Fellowship. She will spend two months at the American Academy in Rome.
During his lifetime Alun Leach-Jones influenced many younger artists and had more than 82 solos shows. In May 2018 Nicholas Thompson Gallery in Melbourne will hold a memorial exhibition of the new paintings the artist was working on when he died.
The full list of artists who will participate in the 21st Biennale of Sydney has been announced.
Sarah Goffman and collaborative couple Sonia Leber and David Chesworth have been allocated the two $20,000 NAVA Visual Arts Fellowships for 2017.
Ralph Kenke and Elmar Trefz (Kenke+Trefz) have won the National Portrait Gallery’s 2017 Digital Portraiture Award with their mixed media installation, Selfie Factory.
Margaret Ambridge has won the Prospect Portrait Prize with her drawing What Remains, an enigmatic charcoal work that depicts the imprint of her mother’s head, left on a pillow.
Congratulations to Sarah Goffman who has taken out the $20,000 Still: National Still Life Award with her collection of recycled plastic containers painted to resemble antique Chinese ceramics.
Daniel von Sturmer has been awarded $60,000 for the Urban Sculpture Prize for his light-based installation Electric Light (facts/figures/Federation Square).
Western Australian artist Jana Vodesil-Baruffi has won the $50,000 2017 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture with her aptly titled work, Black Swan. The Black Swan Prize is now in its 11th year.
Melissa King became CEO of Craft Victoria in July 2017. Prior to joining the organisation, King was working with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Congolese born artist Pierre Mukeba has won the non-acquisitive $15,000 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize for his suite of figurative textile works.
Jenny Orchard has won the National Self-Portrait Prize 2017 for her earthenware figure Self Portrait as a Multispecies Activist.