Art News
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UniSA Jeffrey Smart Commission recipients
Three artists have been awarded the UniSA Jeffrey Smart Commission, enabling them to showcase their ambitious exhibitions at the Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide.
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Koorie Art Show 12 winners announced
The Koorie Art Show is Koorie Heritage Trust's annual open entry exhibition showcasing the diverse talent of Koorie and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists living in Victoria.
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Dave Carswell awarded the $20,000 tidal.24 award
Carswell's process of immersing the negatives in the tidal flow leaves traces on the surface, complicating the image and inviting slow contemplation of our relationship to these contested zones.
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Cassie Rowe’s ‘Shirley’ wins The Lester Prize 2024 People’s Choice
Western Australia's The Lester Prize for portraiture offers a prize pool of over $120,000 spread across two exhibitions and ten categories.
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Stephen Bush wins the Paul Guest Drawing Prize 2024
The biennial Paul Guest Drawing Prize highlights contemporary drawing practice in Australia. In 2024, the non-acquisitive cash award has increased to $18,000.
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Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award 2024 finalists announced
Twenty-five finalists have been selected for the 2024 Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award, a new art prize for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists working in any medium.
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The 56 Dobell Drawing Prize finalists are…
Fifty-six contemporary artists have been named as finalists of the 24th Dobell Drawing Prize, a $30,000 biennial acquisitive prize dedicated to drawing.
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Six shortlisted artists: Create NSW and Artspace 2025 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging)
These six shortlisted emerging visual artists will receive invaluable support, curatorial advocacy and exposure to the industry and wider NSW arts audiences.
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‘The Flanagan’ returns to its origins as a major exhibition at St Patrick’s College
The 2025 Flanagan Art Prize offers $18,000 in prizes across three categories – the Flanagan Art Prize, Young Flanagan Art Prize and Clontarf Art Prize.
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MECCA x NGV Women in Design | Christien Meindertsma’s wool sculpture
Christien Meindertsma repurposes hundreds of kilograms of wool, from a flock of more than two thousand sheep, that would have otherwise been discarded as waste.
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Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2024 recipients
"This year's entries were highly diverse and showed a wide breadth of approaches to painting and how painting can be understood," said judge Jelena Telecki.
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Lori Pensini wins the 2024 Portia Geach Memorial Award
The $30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award is presented annually to a female Australian artist for the best portrait painted from life of a man or woman distinguished in art, letters or the sciences.
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