Art News
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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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Nicole Kelly wins the 2024 Evelyn Chapman Art Award for young painters
The biennial award provides a $50,000 scholarship to support a young Australian painter working in oil or tempera, to further their artistic knowledge and practice internationally or in Australia.
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Lindy Lee’s ‘Ouroboros’ is unveiled
The National Gallery unveils Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros, a newly commissioned public sculpture based on the ancient image of a snake eating its own tail.
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OzAsia Festival 2024 highlights
Curated by Joon-Yee Kwok, OzAsia Festival, Australia’s leading contemporary arts festival engaging with Asia, returns to Adelaide Festival Centre from 24 October to 10 November 2024.
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Liveworks Festival 2024 | Live art, experimentation and celebration
Performance Space’s flagship festival of live art and performance returns to Carriageworks, Sydney – spanning dance, music, theatre, installation, experimentation and celebration.
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