Congratulations to Sarah Goffman who has taken out the $20,000 Still: National Still Life Award with her collection of recycled plastic containers painted to resemble antique Chinese ceramics.
“I am overwhelmed and so grateful to win this award,” said Goffman at the announcement last week. “Art prizes present a conundrum. I have mixed feelings, if only every artist in this exhibition could be awarded $20,000. It’s brave to make art, we make ourselves vulnerable and we’re not always rewarded for it.”
“Still has placed the still life genre at the heart of contemporary art practice,” she said. “There is a real sense that something new is happening here.”
Tiffany Cole, Sarah Edmondson, Guy Gilmour, Sam Leach, and Prue Venables all received commendations. Ben Fayle and Greg Weight shared The People’s Choice Award of $5000.
The Still: National Still Life Award at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery was open to still life compositions in all mediums. Goffman’s winning work, Asian Table, was selected from a field of 63 finalists and the exhibition of all their work includes painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, ceramics, glass, sculpture, video, printmaking and textiles.
Still: National Still Life Award
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
23 November – 20 January 2018
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.
In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.
With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.
Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.
Symbols and images dance across Nathan Beard’s vast body of work, all connecting back to his Thai-Australian heritage. We step inside the artist’s studio space in Preston, Victoria, and discuss his upcoming exhibition at Sweet Pea Gallery.
Melbourne-born figurative artist and ceramicist Rob McHaffie takes a global view of human idiosyncrasy. His biggest exhibition to date, now showing at Bendigo Art Gallery, covers over a decade of his painting practice.
