With the 2020 Head On Photo Festival currently taking place online, winners of the annual awards for photographs in portrait, landscape and student categories have been announced.
Alison Mackay is the 2020 recipient of the $20,000 Gallipoli Art Prize for her painting Breathe.
As galleries and museums worldwide begin placing exhibitions, artworks and art experiences online, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN is likewise heading into the digital realm.
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.”
