Margaret Ambridge has won the Prospect Portrait Prize with her drawing What Remains, an enigmatic charcoal work that depicts the imprint of her mother’s head, left on a pillow.
Daniel von Sturmer has been awarded $60,000 for the Urban Sculpture Prize for his light-based installation Electric Light (facts/figures/Federation Square).
Congolese born artist Pierre Mukeba has won the non-acquisitive $15,000 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize for his suite of figurative textile works.
End of year graduate exhibitions are a heady mix of celebration and contemporary art perusing.
Artist and Activist Zanny Begg is the recipient of the $70,000 Artbank + ACMI Commission for her proposed video installation The Beehive.
Bringing together artist run initiatives (ARI’s) from Australia and New Zealand, Hobiennale (HB17) aims to celebrate and strengthen their place in the art ecosystem, and add another dimension to Hobart’s art scene.
Community and place are the central focus of Home is where the heat is. Held at Canberra Glassworks, the exhibition celebrates this multi-functional centre’s 10th anniversary.
Melbourne-based artist Sanné Mestrom has been awarded the $20,000 acquisitive main prize for Sleeping Muse, which was praised for its conceptual rigour and technical finesse.
Gerhard Richter, the well known German painter, has created works that adhere to abstraction, realism and expressionism, but as a sum evade these definitions.
Indigenous artist Yunkurra Billy Atkins has been awarded $30,000 for the Most Outstanding Work in the 2017 Hedland Art Awards for his large scale-work on paper work, Kumpupirntily, which combines political commentary with the Australian landscape.
Coinciding with the Victorian College of Arts’ 150 year anniversary, Presence was a sparse selection of landscape paintings by six notable VCA alumni – Eugene von Geurard, Frederick McCubbin, Clarice Beckett, Fred Williams, Rick Amor, Louise Hearman – interrupted by a video work by Michael Riley, the late contemporary Indigenous photographer and filmmaker.
In his new exhibition, Sam Leach loads an artistic Hadron Collider with biology, op art and Russian cosmism.
