Megan Seres and Johannes Reinhart win the 2016 Moran Art Prizes

Emerging artist Megan Seres and Perth based photographer Johannes Reinhart win the 2016 Moran Art Prizes.

Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2016

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.

By Bec Gallo | Published 14 October 2016

Sam Bloor takes out FAC Print Award with layers of graffiti

Congratulations to Sam Bloor for winning the 2016 Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC) Print Award.

By Art Guide Australia | Published 22 September 2016

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.

The John Leslie Art Prize 2016

Amelda Read-Forsythe announced as the winner of the John Leslie Art Prize 2016.

By Art Guide Australia | Published 2 September 2016

Photographs dominate the 2016 Sunshine Coast Art Prize

Sunshine Coast photographer Michael Cook has won the $25,000 Sunshine Coast Art Prize with his work, Mother – Tennis.

By Art Guide Australia | Published 2 September 2016

Jack Anselmi and Cynthia Hardie win the 2016 Indigenous Ceramic Art Award

Yorta Yorta artists Jack Anselmi and Cynthia Hardie have won the 2016 Indigenous Ceramic Art Award with their installation, Midden.

Eric Demetriou wins 2016 John Fries Award

The annual John Fries Award for emerging artists has been won by Eric Demetriou.

By Art Guide Australia | Published 22 August 2016

Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards

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.

By Louise Martin-Chew | Published 5 August 2016

Two major South Australian arts organisations join forces

The Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF) and the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA) will amalgamate.

By Art Guide Australia | Published 3 August 2016

Richard Lewer bags the final Basil Sellers Art Prize.

Melbourne-based Richard Lewer has taken out the fifth and final Basil Sellers Art Prize.

Daniel O’Shane wins the 2016 National Works on Paper 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).