Tag Archives: AGNSW

Shelley Lasica: WHEN I AM NOT THERE

22 May 2023 | Art Almanac

The work sees eight dancers (including Lasica) and objects in constant negotiation with each other, the space, and the visitors, unfolding across two weeks and offering a new encounter each day....

Julia Gutman, winner of the $100,000 Archibald Prize 2023

5 May 2023 | Art Almanac

Art Almanac congratulates the winner of the 2023 Archibald Prize, Julia Gutman with her portrait of singer-songwriter Montaigne, 'Head in the sky, feet on the ground'....

Zaachariaha Fielding, winner of the Wynne Prize 2023

5 May 2023 | Art Almanac

Art Almanac congratulates first-time finalist Zaachariaha Fielding, who has won the 2023 Wynne Prize for his painting 'Inma', depicting the sounds of Mimili, a small community in the eastern part of the APY Lands, South Australia. ...

Doris Bush Nungarrayi, winner of the Sulman Prize 2023

5 May 2023 | Art Almanac

Congratulations to Senior Luritja artist Doris Bush Nungarrayi, winner of the Sulman Prize 2023 for her work 'Mamunya ngalyananyi (Monster coming)'....

The National 4: Australian Art Now

5 April 2023 | Art Almanac

The National 4: Australian Art Now, is exhibited across four locations, in a partnership between four leading Sydney institutions: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales....

Thea Anamara Perkins, 2023 recipient of La Prairie Art Award

15 March 2023 | Art Almanac

The La Prairie Art Award supports Australian women artists through an international artist residency and the development or expansion of a new body of work, which is acquired by AGNSW for its collection....

Australia’s first Children’s Art Library opens at AGNSW

15 January 2023 | Art Almanac

Australia’s first Children’s Art Library opens at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, filled with delight and wonder to inspire the next generation. ...

The National 4: Australian Art Now | Artists announced

18 November 2022 | Art Almanac

New works and commissions by 53 artists and collectives with shared themes from intergenerational learning and interconnectedness to a focus on language and narrative and the role of the artist today....

Jeremy Eden awarded Archibald Prize 2022 ANZ People’s Choice

3 August 2022 | Art Almanac

The artist and his sitter bonded over their shared experience of losing close family members to cancer – Eden’s mother and [Samuel] Johnson’s sister – and the portrait captures both of their stories....

Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island

29 June 2022 | Emma-Kate Wilson

Daniel Boyd explores colonial history and multiplicity within narratives, and interrogates blackness as a form of First Nations’ resistance. Emma-Kate Wilson speaks with the artist....

Sydney Modern Project Commissions

25 March 2022 | Art Almanac

Nine leading Australian and international artists have been selected to create a series of newly commissioned public artworks as part of AGNSW's Sydney Modern Project....

Atong Atem awarded inaugural La Prairie Art Award

16 March 2022 | Art Almanac

Through her hyper-stylised costumes and make-up, Atem draws attention to the staging inherent to the studio scene, but such ornamentation also carries political weight....