The Art Guide Australia editorial team consists of Anna Dunnill, Tiarney Miekus, Tracey Clement and Kim Butterworth.
Susan Norrie has been awarded $50,000 as recipient of the third annual Don Macfarlane Prize. The award is given to a senior Australian artist to spend as they please; no particular outcomes are required.
Blak Douglas has won the 2019 Kilgour Prize with his large graphic portrait of actress and singer Ursula Yovich.
Sally Robinson has won the 2019 Portia Geach Memorial Award. The Sydney-based artist took out the $30,000 portrait painting prize for women with her self-portrait titled Body in a box.
The Indigenous artist took out the annual $100,000 prize for landscape painting with his densely layered canvas titled Four Dreamings.
Lynda Draper has won the fifth biennial Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award. The Sydney-based artist took out the $50,000 prize with her 2019 series Somnambulism.
Justine Youssef has won the $10,000 John Fries Award for her performative video and installation work Under the table I learnt how to feed you, 2019.
Joanna Braithwaite has won the third annual Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize.
Indigenous elders Uncle Jack Charles and Aunty Lola Greeno have received the top National Indigenous Arts Awards, the Red Ochre Award for lifetime achievement. They were honoured at a gala event at the Sydney Opera House alongside other award winners, theatre-maker Jacob Boehme and emerging artist Jenna Lee.
Congratulations to Tamara Dean who has won the $50,000 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (MCPP) for 2019. Dean’s colour underwater photograph, Endangered, was selected from a pool of 30 finalists.
Anita Cummins has won the $50,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship for recent art school graduates.
American artist Asad Raza creates a new site-specific work for Kaldor Public Art Project 34 at Carriageworks.
The National Portrait Gallery will be closed from 23 April until late-August 2019 while the building is under renovation.
