The board of the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) has appointed Cherie McNair as the new director. She will commence on 8 February 2017.
Leonard French, who died on 10 January at the age of 88, was the man behind the iconic stained glass ceiling in the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Remarkably, this monumental undertaking, which was unveiled in 1968, was his first effort in the medium.
Salote Tawale has been awarded the inaugural Arts NSW Visual Artists Fellowship. Tawale was selected from a shortlist of six NSW artists which also included: Khadim Ali, Linda Dement, Karla Dickens, Bianca Hester and Hiromi Tango.
Soda_Jerk, a two-person art collective formed in Sydney in 2002, has been awarded the Ian Potter Moving Image Commission (IPMIC).
Amiel Courtin-Wilson has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Digital Portraiture Award for his submission titled Charles.
Artist Danie Mellor has been announced as the recipient of the 2016 Australia Council Fellowship for the Visual Arts.
Artists Mikala Dwyer (NSW) and Michelle Nikou (SA) have been announced as the recipients of the inaugural $20,000 NAVA Visual Arts Fellowship.
Brisbane-based artist Julie Fragar has won the $15,000 Tidal: City of Devonport National Art Award for her monochromatic oil painting titled Antonio Departs Flores on the Whaling Tide.
Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA) have been announced as the winning firm in the competition to design a new gallery for Arthur Boyd’s collection as part of the Bundanon Trust masterplan.
This year, Jenny Rodgerson took out the $30,000 prize with her self portrait, Bound by the big red coat.
Emerging artist Megan Seres and Perth based photographer Johannes Reinhart win the 2016 Moran Art Prizes.
The annual Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (WSSP) attracts an enormous number of entries (over 600 this year) and brings together a collection of finalists from the preeminent to the lesser known.
