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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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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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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.

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Artists Susan Norrie and Joyce Hinterding win Australia Council Awards

Artists Susan Norrie and Joyce Hinterding have both received awards from the Australia Council in a gala event held in Sydney on Monday 4 March.

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Women win 2019 National Photographic Portrait Prize

This year women have won all three awards in the National Photographic Portrait Prize including the top prize, the Highly Commended award and the Art Handlers’ Award.

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Asad Raza announced as artist for Kaldor Public Art Project 34

American artist Asad Raza will create a new site-specific work for Kaldor Public Art Project 34, opening at Carriageworks in early May.

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Denis Beaubois awarded inaugural Create NSW and MCA Visual Arts

Congratulations to Denis Beaubois who has been awarded the first Create NSW and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) NSW Visual Arts Mid-Career/Established Fellowship.

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Antoinette Barbouttis wins Black Swan Prize for Portraiture 2018

NSW-based artist and theatre designer Antoinette Barbouttis has won the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture with a large charcoal drawing.

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Julia Davis wins City of Devonport National Art Award: tidal.18

Sydney-based artist Julia Davis has taken out the $15,000 City of Devonport National Art Award: tidal.18 with a single channel video loop titled, Undercurrent, 2017.

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Lynn Savery Wins Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2018

Congratulations to Lynn Savery who has been awarded the 2018 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. The prize was the first portrait competition Savery entered, and she won the $150,000 with a portrait of herself and her dog.

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James Parrett wins major Sculpture by the Sea prize

The major acquisitive prize from Sculpture by the Sea has been awarded to James Parrett. The Victorian artist took out the $70,000 Aqualand Sculpture Award with his large metal sculpture M-fortysix.

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