While physical galleries all around Australia may be closed for months, the necessity of invention may yet enrich art lovers worldwide with online innovation.
In light of COVID-19 shutdowns arts bodies around Australia have announced millions in new funding, programs and resources for artists, arts organisations and arts practitioners.
Rob Palmer has won the 2020 National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) with his colour photo of Sydney-based chef Josh Niland titled The mahi-mahi, 2019.
The award acknowledges Andrew’s “outstanding and sustained contribution to Australian visual art.”
Tasmanian artist Robert O’Connor has won the 2020 Glover Prize with a unique take on landscape painting.
As of Wednesday 25 March 2020 all galleries and museums Australia-wide will be closed, adhering to COVID-19 restrictions from the federal government. During this time Art Guide Australia will continue to publish and share the art, stories and ideas of artists across the country.
Anthea da Silva has taken out the inaugural $75,000 prize with her portrait of Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM, founder of the Australian Dance Theatre.
Yhonnie Scarce has been awarded the second Yalingwa Fellowship, an initiative designed to foster career development opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual artists living and working in Victoria.
“Art is more enjoyable if you look at it hard and long, than if you look at it idly and in passing.”
ACMI’s new commissioning series involves 3 annual awards of $80,000 each, dedicated to helping young artists realise new work.
Sydney-based actor and artist Liam Nunan is the winner of the $50,000 Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture 2019, for his portrait of fellow actor Jonny Hawkins.
The artist known simply as what has won the $150,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for 2019 with his portrait of Robert Forster from the Australian rock group The Go-Betweens.
