Tag Archives: AGNSW

ARTEXPRESS returns to AGNSW to celebrate newest generation of artistic talent

23 January 2018 | Art Almanac

This year's 'ARTEXPRESS' spans ceramics, collection of works, documented forms, drawing, designed objects, graphic design, painting, photomedia, printmaking, sculpture, textiles and fibre, and time-based forms....

Artist Peter Smeeth awarded 2017 Packing Room Prize for his portrait of Lisa Wilkinson

20 July 2017 | Art Almanac

In selecting Peter Smeeth for the Archibald's Packing Room Prize, AGNSW head packer Steve Peters said, "I’ve always said g’day to Peter [Smeeth] when he’s delivered his works to the Gallery. There should be more artists like him in the world.”...

$244m funding for AGNSW’s Sydney Modern Project

17 June 2017 | Art Almanac

The extension will create a global art museum for a global city with new and expanded spaces for art, live performance and film along with spaces to learn, study and participate in cultural experiences....

Sydney Film Festival | Akira Kurosawa: from canvas to screen

8 June 2017 | Tanya Pesa

The fixed composition of Ran's opening sequence resembles a string of paintings as static figures are positioned over a lush, breathing landscape. Kurosawa as artist is showcased immediately....

Abdul Abdullah to judge 2017 Young Archie competition

1 June 2017 | Art Almanac

"I put all my faith in the next generation, and it's why I spend so much time working with young people across Australia. It brings me so much joy witnessing young people discover and explore creative practices." – Abdul Abdullah...

Barbara Cleveland: Bodies in Time

31 October 2016 | Lucy Stranger

She was a body paintbrush in Yves Klein’s performance piece Anthropométries (1960), she dressed in drag and sang show songs with Mike Parr, and she inspired the recent name change of Sydney-based performance collective Brown Council to the Barbara Cleveland Institute (B.C. Institute)....

Paris bound – Lucy O’Doherty awarded 2016 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship

22 September 2016 | Art Almanac

This year’s judges were artist Tom Carment and head curator of Australian art at the Art Gallery of NSW, Wayne Tunnicliffe. They selected this year’s winner from seven finalists, shortlisted from 91 entries....

Portrait of Sudanese refugee and lawyer wins Archibald People’s Choice

21 September 2016 | Art Almanac

Sydney artist and Archibald Prize veteran Nick Stathopoulos is the winner of the 2016 Archibald Prize People’s Choice award with his hyper-real portrait of Sudanese refugee and lawyer, Deng Adut. Stathopoulos’s portrait of Adut is his fifth finalist entry in the esteemed Archibald Prize. It is...

2016 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman winners

18 July 2016 | Art Almanac

Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson don't have anything on the real Barry Humphries as Louise Hearman's hyper-real portrait of the iconic Australian wins this year's Archibald Prize....

2016 Packing Room Prize Winner Announced

7 July 2016 | Art Almanac

Adelaide-born Melbourne artist Betina Fauvel-Ogden has won the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s 2016 Packing Room Prize with her portrait of renowned chef, restaurateur and MasterChef Australia judge, George Calombaris....

Event: Voice of the Artist: Age of the Image @ AGNSW

19 May 2016 | Art Almanac

GAME OF CHANCE: WIN TWO DOUBLE PASSES Art Almanac, on behalf of Copyright Agency|Viscopy, would like to offer its readers a chance to win two double passes (valued at $54.00 per ticket) to the half-day event on June 10 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales....

Packing Room Prize + People’s Choice award | Double win for Bruno Jean Grasswill

10 September 2015 | Art Almanac

Sydney artist Bruno Jean Grasswill has won both the Packing Room Prize and now the People’s Choice award for his portrait of Australian actor Michael Caton in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ 2015 Archibald Prize....