Robert O’Connor wins Glover Prize 2020
Tasmanian artist Robert O’Connor has won the 2020 Glover Prize with a unique take on landscape painting.
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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.
Critiquing the male gaze throughout art history, Qureshi questions the “absence of a female protagonist and even a point of view in major art collections,” she says. “Historically, there are not enough women’s voices in the art world.”
Sydney-based artist Merran Esson has won the $20,000 acquisitive award in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2019. Her ceramic work Autumn on the Monaro will become part of the permanent collection at Woollahra Council.
On winning Katrin Koenning said, “If one of the roles of the artist is to engage critically with the times in which they live, winning the Bowness enables me to continue doing so. I could not be more thankful, or more proud.”
Jack Lanagan Dunbar has been awarded the $40,000 2019 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. The Sydney-based artist was selected from a field of nine finalists for his body of work titled Pantheon.
