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Pia Johnson
Pia Johnson’s latest photographic series In a dim light… captures the experience of being displaced, lost and fragmented in a foreign place.
2014 Gold Coast Art Prize finalists announced
In its 46th year, the Gold Coast Art Prize has grown in stature and size with more than 300 entries received for this year’s award.
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AGNSW acquires NSW Desert Plants drawing suite by Jennifer Keeler-Milne
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has recently expanded its Australian collection, with a striking work by Jennifer Keeler-Milne.
2014 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
New Zealand artist Natalie Guy has been awarded the 2014 $15,000 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize for her work, Form for modern living #2, a five-kilogram bronze cast of what was originally a reworked plywood school-chair. The ‘2014 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize’ – Australia’s pre-eminent national prize for small sculpture – has been awarded to an […]
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Finalists announced for the 2014 Moran Art Prizes
The final 60 finalists of the 2014 Doug Moran Arts Prize have been announced
Art Dance
Flatline is a Sydney-based cross-artform collective founded by visual artist Todd Fuller and choreographer Carl Sciberras.
Anselm Kiefer
The gallery has long shown one or two of Kiefer’s earlier works and currently displays one – Order of the Seraphim, 1986.
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Jane Flowers wins the 2014 ANL Maritime Art Award
Artist Jane Flowers has been awarded the 2014 ANL Maritime Art Award with her oil on canvas works David and Goliath.
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Resounding success for the 2014 City of Hobart Art Prize
Attracting 55 foremost artists from all over Australia, the 2014 City of Hobart Art Prize has established itself as a prominent national art award.
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Inappropriate Nudity
Harley Oliver challenges expectations to explore nudity in unexpected situations.
Artists blow-in to Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
Artists have journeyed into central Australia to blow-in, paint and put together an exhibition at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
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Garden of the East
I saw history on the cusp; memorable photographs of places and people and animals, some recorded a century and a half ago by photographers looking through lenses in wooden contraptions called cameras; a search for a more lasting way to record history. Gauguin would have thought himself in paradise painting Woman from Bogar (c1890) or […]
Shannon Smiley wins the John Leslie Art Prize
Melbourne-based artist Shannon Smiley has been announced as this year’s winner of the John Leslie Art Prize.
Artists and the ABC support Mental Health Week
Artists, celebrities and the ABC join the cause supporting fundraising for Mental Health Week, 5 – 12 October.
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Innovation and design blend seamlessly at the opening of MPavilion
The inaugural MPavilion was unveiled earlier this week in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens
The Inaugural Australian Print Workshop Print Fair
This weekend Saturday 11 October look forward to the Australian Print Workshop’s Inaugural Print Fair, an event celebrating all things print.
Ceramics by Simone Fraser
Sitting across the lunch table, I am listening to Simone Fraser discuss her recent work. We have shared conversation, coffee and lunch but my strongest impression of the meeting is the way Simone uses her hands. She expressively gestures with every sentence and her long fingers create her story. Her hands explore the language that […]
Camille Serisier
Brisbane-based artist Camille Serisier enchants people with her unique brand of art making.
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Clara Adolphs | The Man in Me
The genesis of her latest body of work came from realising that the artists, musicians and writers (mainly from the 1950’s and 60’s) who inspire her are all males. The show’s title, ‘The Man in Me’, is also the title of a Bob Dylan song and explores the dichotomy between the lives of men and […]
Postcards in the artist’s studio.
There is a white shoebox on our bookshelf in which I keep my collection of several hundred art postcards.
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Julie Poulsen
My father was eager for new experiences and, directly after the war, my parents moved to Lae, Papua New Guinea. These first six years of my life established a sequence of life- style and climatic changes. Our travels were random, from the wilds of New Guinea to the shiny, bustling Gold Coast and from tradi- […]
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Peter Sharp presents Eucalypt
Peter Sharp’s latest solo exhibition is a meditative enquiry into nature and its colourful constructions.
Paul White
Growing up in the suburbs of Sydney, cars, bikes and other modes of transport were a necessity and a passion. Not only were they a means of getting around and out of the suburbs, but modified cars were also a source of desire and a means of expressing identity, like a type of art object. […]
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Paula do Prado
By sharing her own personal stories, Paul do Prado’s work creates a dialogue around issues of immigration and multiculturalism, which are just as relevant now as ever.
