Art News
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Leah Bullen wins the 2021 Stanthorpe Art Prize
Congratulations to Leah Bullen, winner of the 2021 Stanthorpe Art Prize with her watercolour, Memoryscape (Garden with sunflowers and pencil pines). 'For me,' says Bullen, 'gardens and gardening have always been a place and an activity centred around family, the beauty of nature and tranquillity.'
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PHOTO 2021: The Truth | International Festival of Photography
'PHOTO 2021’ is a brand new international festival of photography, with a series of free events across multiple venues from the streets and galleries of Melbourne to regional Victoria.
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Adelaide Festival 2021
The 36th Adelaide Festival presents a program like no other in 2021. Pulled together through a year of mayhem, the festivities include 70 events, 10 world and 14 Australian premieres, and 18 events exclusive to Adelaide.
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Sydney artist Leyla Stevens wins the 66th Blake Prize
Balinese Australian artist Leyla Stevens’ video work, Kidung/Lament (2019) focuses on traces of Bali’s histories of political violence and the complex manifestations of these concealed pasts amongst human, physical and metaphysical environments.
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tidal.20: City of Devonport Tasmanian Art Award’s People’s Choice
A moody monotone oil painting of the Bluff by Spreyton-based artist Mary Wilson has won the tidal.20: City of Devonport Tasmanian Art Award's People's Choice prize.
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2020 NATSIAA | Telstra People’s Choice Award winner announced
'I am painting my country; this is Irrunytju or Wingellina in Western Australia. It's the story of Minyma Kutjara – two women who are travelling to Docker River. This is the story my mother has given me,' explains winner Nyunmiti Burton.
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Perth Festival 2021
From 5 to 28 February ‘Perth Festival’ will energise the City’s centre with an extraordinary program of theatre, music, film, visual art, dance, conversations and more.
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Christian Thompson | Bowness Photography Prize winner
The William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, a $30,000 acquisitive award was presented to artist Christian Thompson for his epic four-panel work 'Rule of three' (2020).
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Sydney Festival 2021 | 130 events across three weeks
From Parramatta to Chippendale, the Sydney Festival presents three weeks of engaging and immersive events, exhibitions, workshops and talks, and lots of family-friendly fun for the summer holidays.
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Marco Luccio: The Albatross Project
Marco Luccio’s etching of two albatrosses lovingly touching beaks, accompanied by the words LOVE, HOPE, TRUST, was turned into posters printed and pasted on walls and made into a series of postcards to share with all.
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Mona reopens its semi-subterranean galleries on Boxing Day
Mona – Museum of Old and New Art will reopen its semi-subterranean galleries, outdoor art and bars and restaurants after a nine-month pandemic-induced shutdown from 26 December 2020.
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HERE I AM: Art by Great Women
Inspired by the Know My Name movement and in a cultural partnership with the National Gallery of Australia, ‘HERE I AM: Art by Great Women’ is a new festival celebrating women artists and creatives across the Kambri precinct at ANU in Canberra.
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