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Lynda Draper wins 2019 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award
Lynda Draper has won the fifth biennial Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award. The Sydney-based artist took out the $50,000 prize with her 2019 series Somnambulism.
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Justine Youssef wins 2019 John Fries Award
Justine Youssef has won the $10,000 John Fries Award for her performative video and installation work Under the table I learnt how to feed you, 2019.
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Joanna Braithwaite wins Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
Joanna Braithwaite has won the third annual Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize.
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2019 National Indigenous Arts Awards
Indigenous elders Uncle Jack Charles and Aunty Lola Greeno have received the top National Indigenous Arts Awards, the Red Ochre Award for lifetime achievement. They were honoured at a gala event at the Sydney Opera House alongside other award winners, theatre-maker Jacob Boehme and emerging artist Jenna Lee.
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Tamara Dean wins 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
Congratulations to Tamara Dean who has won the $50,000 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (MCPP) for 2019. Dean’s colour underwater photograph, Endangered, was selected from a pool of 30 finalists.
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Anita Cummins wins Schenberg Art Fellowship at Hatched
Anita Cummins has won the $50,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship for recent art school graduates.
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National Portrait Gallery closes for renovation
The National Portrait Gallery will be closed from 23 April until late-August 2019 while the building is under renovation.
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The first 33 artists in 2020 Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN
Brook Andrew has announced the first 33 artists, creatives and collectives who will participate in the next BOS, many of whom are First Nations artists.
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Frances Barrett, Giselle Stanborough and Sally Rees win Katthy Cavaliere Fellowships
Each artist has been awarded $100,000 as part of the Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship.
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Justine Varga wins 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize
Justine Varga has won the 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize, taking out the $30,000 award with Photogenic drawing, 2018, a piece that blurs the boundaries between drawing and photography.
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Vale Edmund Capon
Edmund Capon, who has died at the age of 78, served for 33 years as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), an institution with which his name remains indelibly linked.
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Piers Greville wins 2019 Glover Prize
Piers Greville has won the 2019 Glover Prize, awarded for landscape paintings of Tasmania. The Melbourne-based artist took out the $50,000 prize with his bold graphic painting, Pedder Prime Cuts.