The Art Guide Australia editorial team consists of Tracey Clement (Digital Editor), Varia Karipoff (Print Editor) and Kim Butterworth (Publisher).
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.
Each artist has been awarded $100,000 as part of the Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NSW-based artist and theatre designer Antoinette Barbouttis has won the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture with a large charcoal drawing.
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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