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JUMAADI wins 2017 MOSMAN ART PRIZE
Hitting its 70th Anniversary, the Mosman Art Prize presents its winners.
Gene A’Hern
Emerging Blue Mountains-based artist Gene A’Hern details the frustrations and triumphs that have fuelled her current practice.
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Kerrie Hughes
Kerrie Hughes came to painting after a brilliant career in fashion design. This has had a profound influence on Hughes’ art practice, and the way she depicts her homeland in her immersive landscape works.
John Kelly | Sunshine and Moonlight
Looking to the past as inspiration for now. John Kelly responds to and exhibits alongside Sidney Nolan.
Lindy Lee
For an artist who has long been in dialogue with her dual transient identities, Lindy Lee is pushing past boundaries and forging her own mark as an international artist.
Wendy Stavrianos
Rage, Memory & Desire: Revisiting the 1980s
The shortlist for this year’s NSW Visual Arts Fellowship
Seven artists have been shortlisted for this year’s NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Mid-career/Established).
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Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2017
Congratulations to Polly Borland, who was awarded the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2017
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Artist Profile at Talk Contemporary
What is it about the relationship between non-objective art and portraiture that continues to evoke such a divided response?
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Tagged Andrew Christofides, Coen Young, Debra Dawes, Hilarie Mais, Justine Varga, Michael Buzacott, Sydney Contemporary
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‘Kakadu’ – An artist’s perspective
An artists trip into remote Kakadu results in an exhibition filled with poignant encounters and quiet reflections.
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Tagged Euan Macleod, Franck Gohier, Mitchell Fine Art, Peter Hudson, Steve Lopes
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Aida Tomescu
Printmaking has coincided with defined points of change in Aida Tomescu’s practice.
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Coen Young
For Coen Young, painting is an encounter made real by the methods and process of silver nitrate.
Andrew Christofides
In a career spanning 40 years, Andrew Christofides has forged a distinctive painting practice, recognisable for its sobriety and intellectual curiosity.
Issue 40 hits the stores.
To mark the first stage of our next 10-year journey we have invited Patricia Piccinini to be our issue 40 cover artist.
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Stewart MacFarlane
For Figurative artist Stewart MacFarlane ‘Lust for Life’ is an exhibition of “visual notes” from his everyday experiences.
Issue 39
Artist Profile Issue 39 from Artist Profile on Vimeo. THIS ISSUE OF ARTIST PROFILE focuses on painters who make prints. We want to understand a painter’s relationship to the rather mystical powers of printmaking and the social and cultural engagement implicit in printmaking, which have left their mark on the work of many painters. Not […]
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YIORYIOS
Issue 34 Discovery artist Yioryios creates seamlessly fluid sculptures that are almost painterly in form.
The Samstag Legacy: An Artist’s Bequest
What was initially proposed to be an essay of 3000 words has developed into a densely rich monograph of nearly 400 pages, entitled The Samstag Legacy: An Artist’s Bequest.
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Dean Home
Dean Home is facing a moment of crisis. This is not a bad thing, he is quick to add. But a crisis it is.
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The Cult of the Curator
But when it comes to curating group shows of contemporary art something seems to have gone seriously awry.
Dan Withey
Dan Withey returns with his third solo exhibition, presenting a new suite of colourful and animated paintings that express the forces of life.
2017 Woollahra Small Sculpture Finalists
Small, refined and focused, this year’s Woollahra Small Sculpture returns to challenge Australian artists to concentrate their efforts on the micro.
2017 Kilgour Art Prize Announced
Congratulations to Cameron Stead, winner of the Kilgour Prize 2017.
2017 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes
An intimate portrait of his wife, Agatha Gothe-Snape, brings Cairns long awaited recognition.
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Tagged Archibald Prize, Sulman Prize, Wynne Prize
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