The Art Guide Australia editorial team consists of Anna Dunnill, Tiarney Miekus, Tracey Clement and Kim Butterworth.
Across Australia, the arts community is rallying together to support those impacted by devastating bushfires. Art Guide has compiled a round-up of fundraising exhibitions and relief efforts by artists, galleries and arts organisations, which we will continue to update in the coming weeks.
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.
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.
Jahnne Pasco-White has won the $50,000 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize.
Rew Hanks has won the $16,000 first prize in the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award with his two-metre-long linocut, Gone Fishing East of Faskrudsfjordur.
Visual artists Angela Tiatia and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran are among the nine Sidney Myer Creative Fellows for 2019. Nominated artists must meet the criteria of “outstanding talent and exceptional professional courage.”
Reko Rennie has been awarded the second Artbank + ACMI Commission, with the artist creating a new video work titled What Do We Want.
Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung woman Stacie Piper has been appointed as First Peoples Curator at the TarraWarra Museum of Art as part of the Yalingwa initiative.
