The Art Guide Australia editorial team consists of Anna Dunnill, Tiarney Miekus, Tracey Clement and Kim Butterworth.
With the 2020 Head On Photo Festival currently taking place online, winners of the annual awards for photographs in portrait, landscape and student categories have been announced.
Alison Mackay is the 2020 recipient of the $20,000 Gallipoli Art Prize for her painting Breathe.
Rob Palmer has won the 2020 National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) with his colour photo of Sydney-based chef Josh Niland titled The mahi-mahi, 2019.
The award acknowledges Andrew’s “outstanding and sustained contribution to Australian visual art.”
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.
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.
