Melbourne-based artist Gail Hastings won the $25,000 established artist category with her mixed media drawing colour circle: four colour scheme for a room, 2018. Sydney-based emerging artist Adrian McDonald was awarded $10,000 for his painting, Approximating a Circle, 2018.
Five days before the world premiere of Soda_Jerk’s new film-based work, TERROR NULLIUS, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust withdrew its support of the project and requested not to be included in any promotional material surrounding the event.
The Australia Council has announced artist Angelica Mesiti and curator Juliana Engberg as the Australian representatives for the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.
The Glover Prize for landscape painting has been awarded to Halinka Orszulok, a Jameberoo, New South Wales based artist.
Visual artists Pat Brassington and Nigel Helyer have both been honoured with awards from the Australia Council in 2018.
Congratulations to Ceara Metlikovec for winning the 2018 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.
The National Gallery of Victoria has confirmed that Wilson Security will no longer provide services to the institution.
The program for the 2018 Melbourne Art Fair has been announced. This year the fair has been divided into three broad categories. The biggest part of the show will be the Galleries section with 40 contemporary art galleries from Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia participating.
Congratulations to Sydney-based artist Travis De Vries who has been awarded the $50,000 NSW Aboriginal Arts Fellowship.
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.
