Every two years, since 1988, the Melbourne Art Fair has been a major event on the Australian arts calendar. But in 2016 the Fair was unceremoniously cancelled just six months before it was due to open. Now the Melbourne Art Fair is back with a new venue, new director and new vision for the future.
Congratulations to Chris Bond who has won the very first BalletLab McMahon Contemporary Art Award (BMCAA).
The 10th National Indigenous Art Awards were announced on 27 May to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum and the 25th anniversary of the landmark Mabo decision.
Congratulations to Fiona Foley, Peter Powditch AM and Tim Storrier AM who are the recipients of the 2017 National Art School Fellowships.
Congratulations to Sarah Contos for winning the inaugural Ramsay Art Prize.
Australian born, London-based multidisciplinary artist Dr Christian Thompson has been announced as the recipient of the $80,000 Mordant Family VR Commission for his proposed work Bayi Gardiya (Singing Desert).
Brian Robinson Wins Hazelhurst National Art On Paper Award 2017 with his piece titled Land Sea Sky – Charting our place in the universe.
Winikoff has been a passionate advocate for the arts for 35 years, 22 of those at the helm of NAVA.
Melbourne-based artist Tomislav Nikolic has won the $80,000 2017 Bulgari Art Award.
BoS 2018 artistic director Mami Kataoka, explains that the 21st Biennale “will explore multiple viewpoints in search of a state of equilibrium.”
Congratulations to Gary Grealy, winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017.
As a conceptual and pop artist, a photographer and a painter, as well as an idiosyncratic art critic for two broadsheet newspapers, Robert Rooney wielded influence.
