Tag Archives: Monash Gallery of Art

Tamara Dean: Leave only footprints

1 January 2023 | Art Almanac

Emerging from the depths of nature, Tamara Dean’s practice examines the human condition. Leave only footprints marks the first survey of the artist’s photographic career spanning twenty years....

Paula Mahoney: This landscape holds grief

13 October 2022 | Art Almanac

Through performative photography and portraiture, Paula Mahoney explores the relationship between personal loss, our history and how grief can echo in the Australian landscape as an absence....

William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize | shortlist

29 July 2022 | Art Almanac

The works created over the last twelve months display a diverse snapshot of photographic practice in Australia today....

Hoda Afshar: Speak the Wind

17 May 2022 | Kirsty Francis

Hoda Afshar explores the world through the lens of her camera, with a focus on bringing issues of visibility and representation of the marginalised into view and revealing hidden truths....

Inaugural Wai Tang Commissioning Award recipient

10 April 2022 | Art Almanac

The Wai Tang Commissioning Award is a new $10,000 initiative that now forms part of the annual William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize....

Visions of India: from the colonial to the contemporary

20 February 2022 | Art Almanac

Drawn from the collection of the Museum of Art & Photography, Bengaluru, the images in 'Visions of India: from the colonial to the contemporary' celebrate Indian history, architecture, culture, and tradition....

2021 Bowness Photography Prize winner announced

12 November 2021 | Art Almanac

Lillian O'Neil's practice is founded in archival processes by amassing material that she scans, cuts and wields adeptly into compositions that bind history to the present, seen in her winning work Drawing to a close....

2021 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize

9 September 2021 | Art Almanac

The 2021 Bowness Photography Prize presents a myriad of themes and topics reflecting on the joys and challenges of our most recent times: isolation, protest, hope and celebration....

2021 Bowness Photography Prize | Shortlist announced

30 July 2021 | Art Almanac

MGA invited artists to submit still photo-based media, including analogue and digital photography, created over the last year for consideration. From 739 entries, these are the 52 finalists....

Christian Thompson | Bowness Photography Prize winner

22 January 2021 | Art Almanac

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)....

William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize

21 December 2020 | Art Almanac

‘There is an intensity to these works, and one can read a pre- and post-COVID-19 lens – the shortlisted artists illustrate its impact and the change that we all feel,’ says Anouska Phizacklea, MGA Gallery Director....

2020 Bowness Photography Prize | 60 finalists

20 August 2020 | Art Almanac

'There is an intensity to these works, and one can read a pre- and post-COVID-19 lens – the shortlisted artists illustrate its impact and the change that we all feel.’ — Anouska Phizacklea, MGA Gallery Director...