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Deanna Hitti wins 2018 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award

Congratulations to Deanna Hitti who has won first prize in the 2018 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award with her artist’s book titled, TOWLA.

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Natasha Walsh wins 2018 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship

Congratulations to Natasha Walsh who has been awarded the 2018 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.

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Jonathan Jones wins 2018 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Congratulations to Jonathan Jones who has been named the 2018 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow in the field of visual arts.

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Yhonnie Scarce wins 2018 Indigenous Ceramic Award

Yhonnie Scarce has taken out the 2018 Indigenous Ceramic Award (ICA) with her porcelain and glass work Servant and Slave, 2018. The $20,000 award is acquisitive and Scarce’s piece will join the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) permanent collection.

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Linda Marrinon wins 2018 Don Macfarlane Prize

Congratulations to Linda Marrinon who has been awarded the second annual $50,000 Don Macfarlane Prize. The Melbourne-based artist, who first came to prominence with her paintings in the 1980s, is now best known for figurative terracotta sculptures.

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Gunybi Ganambarr wins Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award

Ganambarr, who is from the remote community of Gangan in East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, took out the top prize with a large etching on aluminium titled Buyku.

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Judy Watson to create major public artwork honouring the First Peoples of Australia

Brisbane-based Aboriginal artist Judy Watson has been commissioned to make a major public artwork for the City of Sydney’s Eora Journey project which seeks to acknowledge clans of the Eora Nation and honour the First Peoples of Australia.

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Rhana Devenport appointed Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia

The South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has announced that Rhana Devenport will be the new director of the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA). Devenport will take up the position in October 2018.

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Neil Haddon wins Hadley’s Art Prize

Tasmanian artist Neil Haddon has won the second annual Hadley’s Art Prize with his painting The Visit.

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Laith McGregor wins 2018 Paul Guest Prize for Drawing

Congratulations to Laith McGregor who has won the $15,000 Paul Guest Prize for Drawing with his pencil drawing on paper, This Old Island, 2018.

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Mona Foma moves to Launceston

From 2019 Mona Foma, the annual summer music, arts and culture festival, will leave Hobart and head to Launceston.

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Brook Andrew appointed artistic director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney

Brook Andrew will be the artistic director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (BoS), due to be held in 2020.

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