The Art Guide Australia editorial team consists of Anna Dunnill, Tiarney Miekus, Tracey Clement and Kim Butterworth.
One of Melbourne’s iconic public galleries, Heide Museum of Modern Art, announced this week that Dr Natasha Cica has resigned as director.
The National, an ambitious biennial initiative staged across three major Sydney institutions, will be back in 2019.
Melbourne-based artist Gail Hastings won the $25,000 established artist category with her mixed media drawing colour circle: four colour scheme for a room, 2018. Sydney-based emerging artist Adrian McDonald was awarded $10,000 for his painting, Approximating a Circle, 2018.
Congratulations to Ceara Metlikovec for winning the 2018 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.
The National Gallery of Victoria has confirmed that Wilson Security will no longer provide services to the institution.
The program for the 2018 Melbourne Art Fair has been announced. This year the fair has been divided into three broad categories. The biggest part of the show will be the Galleries section with 40 contemporary art galleries from Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia participating.
It’s an almost impossible task to pick one exhibition from a rich and varied year of visual arts offerings. While everyone is moved, motivated and impressed by different things we put the challenge to a number of curators, artists and directors to nominate their favourite show for 2017.
Congratulations to Sarah Goffman who has taken out the $20,000 Still: National Still Life Award with her collection of recycled plastic containers painted to resemble antique Chinese ceramics.
Claudia Nicholson has been announced as the 2017 Create NSW and Artspace Fellow for emerging artists.
Jonathan Jones has been honoured as the second annual Create NSW Visual Arts Fellow.
The Artists’ Committee, a group of artists and arts workers, have intensified their protest action against the National Gallery of Victoria’s contract with Wilson Security.
Congratulations to Polixeni Papapetrou who has won the 2017 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize. Papapetrou took out the $30,000 award with a photo of a young woman bedecked with flowers from her Eden series, titled Delphi, 2016.
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