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The Artists behind the Art || Issue 70 Out Now!
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Congratulations to Sydney artist Andrew Tomkins wh

Congratulations to Sydney artist Andrew Tomkins who won the 2025 Gallipoli Art Prize with his work ‘HMAS Karangi’. Highly Commended was awarded to Wayne Davis for his oil painting ‘Lighthorse Section’.

Tomkins references the image of Banksy tanks firing love hearts or peace signs as inspiration for this work. “In creating this artwork HMAS Karangi is a memorial to the personnel who sailed her. Ihave utilised her reality to create a graphic picture of a more peaceful world, in the same vein as Banksy’s peace paintings” Tomkins said. “With the global turmoil that has been happening, I thought to try and tap into that sentiment and to present a statement that would represent a more peaceful world. For me the prize is about remembrance, it is about remembering the past. Peace can never be achieved without looking back. There is no future without the past”

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Images: Andrew Tomkins photographed by Neil Bennett; Andrew Tomkins, ‘ HMAS Karangi’, ink, wax crayon & aerosol on polyester, 121 x231 cm; Wayne Davis, ‘Lighthorse Section’, oil on board, 170 x 140cm

“Drawing is immediate; the only thing between th

Denzidog’s pick this week is . . . ‘Dreamz’

Denzidog’s pick this week is . . . ‘Dreamz’ at @sca_sydney 🐾

Artists: Lionel Bawden, Liam Garstang, Jan Guy, David Haines, Madeleine Kelly, Aundrey Newton, Julie Rrap, Tim Silver and Justin Trendal

The exhibition is on view until this Saturday 12 April

Remember to keep an eye out for Denzidog at an exhibition near you 👀🐾

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Image: Denzidog at Dreams, featuring Lionel Bawden
Photographed by Justine Muller

In describing his approach to working with glass,

“One of the fascinating themes in Stefanou’s p

‘The Hunt’ extends the artist’s practice of

‘The Hunt’ extends the artist’s practice of beautifully composed photographic images evoking colonial perceptions of the Australian landscape into a series that more directly engages with the violence of this history that they both represent and participate in. While McGlennon’s past work has possessed the seething weight of this violence, through gloomy scenes of extinct animals depicted through the kind of highly contrived realism that one finds in natural history museum exhibits. ~ Alex Wisser

Joseph McGlennon’s solo exhibition ‘The Hunt’ opens tonight at Olsen Gallery, Sydney. Read Alex Wisser’s preview online via the link in our bio.

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Images: Crimson Shore, 2024, giclée digital print, edition of 8 + 2AP, 330 x 161cm; Wild Horizon, 2024, giclée digital print, edition of 8 + 2AP, 330 x 161cm; Fatal Shore, 2024, giclée digital print, edition of 8 + 2AP, 330 x 161cm; Joseph McGlennon in the Flinders Ranges. Courtesy of the artist.

I am struck by a feeling that this may not be the

“This is my quest, to acknowledge the sacred nat

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