BURNIE PRINT PRIZE 2015
With the Burnie Print Prize increasing to $15,000 this year, the award is set to make a mark for Australian artists. Its new equal status establishes it as a most attractive prize for printmaking in Australia. Complementing this milestone is an impressive judging panel including guest judges Jason Smith, Curatorial Manager Australian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, and artists Helen Wright and Raymond Arnold. The enduring popularity of the prize promises a high calibre of exciting and diverse contemporary artists.
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
14 March – 10 May
Image: Melissa Smith, Within Reach, 2013, collagraph/linoprint, 76 x 112cm. ed. 5 of 5, photographer Melanie De Ruyter
Courtesy the artist and the Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
Recognition of the importance of early bark paintings and their link to the world’s oldest continuing culture, is what makes them both highly sought and...
I had come to see my daughter sing in Deborah Kelly’s Creation Choir and was fortunate enough to make it inside the gallery for the...
Cuban-born, Brisbane-based artist Jorge Mariño Brito’s practice unfolds across two material registers that are best understood not as parallel tracks but as entwined explorations. Both...
The first work you encounter in Edge City is a gate, Settlement #8, 2025. Not one to pass through (not anymore), but a threshold nonetheless....
Designed to impress, the number and size of paintings—twenty-nine at nine square metres each and one even bigger—are a spectacle, lifting the exhibition from an...
Skilfully assimilating secondary sources throughout Paris in Ruins, Smee at the conclusion of Part One, “Salon of 1869,” writes that Auguste Renoir’s and Claude Monet’s...
Multidisciplinary artist Shireen Taweel looks skyward, into the night and beyond, with her exhibition the trig point. Drawing on fieldwork in 2025 at the Siding...
It was back in 2011 that Pip Wallis, senior curator at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), remembers first seeing the work of Balinese...
Senior Pitjantjatjara artist, Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin, was born in 1952 near Bumbali Creek in the Northern Territory, close to the border with South Australia; daughter...