Valerie Sparks wins the 2016 MGA Bowness Photography Prize
Melbourne-based artist Valerie Sparks has won the non-acquisitive $25,000 MGA Bowness Photography Prize with her work titled Prospero’s Island – North East.
Melbourne-based artist Valerie Sparks has won the non-acquisitive $25,000 MGA Bowness Photography Prize with her work titled Prospero’s Island – North East.
Amelda Read-Forsythe announced as the winner of the John Leslie Art Prize 2016.
Sunshine Coast photographer Michael Cook has won the $25,000 Sunshine Coast Art Prize with his work, Mother – Tennis.
Yorta Yorta artists Jack Anselmi and Cynthia Hardie have won the 2016 Indigenous Ceramic Art Award with their installation, Midden.
The annual John Fries Award for emerging artists has been won by Eric Demetriou.
Harold Thomas, the artist who designed the Australian Aboriginal flag in 1971, has been declared the overall winner of the 33rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
The Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF) and the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA) will amalgamate.
Melbourne-based Richard Lewer has taken out the fifth and final Basil Sellers Art Prize.
Cairns-based artist Daniel O’Shane has won the National Works on Paper Prize with his piece Aib Ene Zogo ni Pat (Story of Aib and the sacred waterhole).
Louise Hearman has won the annual Archibald Prize with her portrait of ex-pat Aussie comedian Barry Humphries.
The 2018 Biennale of Sydney will be led by its first artistic director from Asia, Mami Kataoka.
Varga’s photograph, Marking Time, was made without the aid of a camera.