Tag Archives: painting

New landscape works by Sally Ross

15 November 2018 | Art Almanac

Using contemporary techniques of pastiche and appropriation, painting exclusively from photography and found images, Sally Ross uses traditional painting styles to place her work in conversation with more historical approaches to art....

Jamie Preisz: Hold On

11 November 2018 | Art Almanac

‘Hold On’ presents a series of hyper-realistic paintings by Jamie Preisz depicting hands slathered in thick paint and gripping a range of symbolic objects, from tulips and bananas to skulls and golden cats....

Arryn Snowball: Selected Works

29 October 2018 | Art Almanac

Arryn Snowball’s fragile forms are suspended in the space of the canvas, print or screen, poised between and reliant upon opposed states in an incidental play of shadows and depth on a surface....

NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize | Winner announced

18 October 2018 | Art Almanac

Selected from a field of 47 finalists, Wei Bin (Jeffrey) Chen is the winner of the 11th annual NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, an acquisitive art prize of $20,000, awarded for the best ‘plein air’ painting of NSW subject....

2018 Portia Geach Memorial Award｜Winner announced

11 October 2018 | Art Almanac

Zoe Young has been announced as the winner of the 2018 Portia Geach Memorial Award, the pre-eminent portraiture prize for women in Australia, receiving $30,000 prize for her portrait entitled Drawing Storyboards....

‘Pride and Prejudice’ wins the 2018 Kilgour Prize People’s Choice

10 October 2018 | Art Almanac

Lori Pensini wins the Kilgour Prize 2018 People's Choice with Pride and Prejudice, a story of race relations in early Australia, painted following her Western Australian family's 'recent discovery of indigenous lineage'....

SOUTH EAST | Aboriginal Arts Market

5 October 2018 | Art Almanac

Showcasing traditional and contemporary practices including weaving, literature, ceramics, carving, photography, painting, shellwork and textiles, SOUTH EAST offers a unique opportunity to ‘meet the makers’....

William Fletcher Travelling Fellowship & Rome Residency recipients

11 September 2018 | Art Almanac

The William Fletcher Foundation has announced the winners of the 2019 William Fletcher Travelling Fellowship & Rome Residency – Andrew Bonneau, Max Berry and Robyn Yeoman....

Phyllis Thomas: From the Jirrawun Collection

3 September 2018 | Art Almanac

This exhibition chronicles Phyllis Thomas' connection to country with eight major works by the senior Gija artist from Warmun, located in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. ...

Systematic

28 August 2018 | Art Almanac

Curated by Eliza Burke, 'Systematic' showcases a group of Australian artists who engage with the creative potential of systems to critique, re-imagine or re-invent their workings. ...

Graeme Drendel: On uneven ground

28 August 2018 | Art Almanac

Graeme Drendel’s paintings and works on paper possess an exacting whimsy. He skilfully renders a dream-like stage for symbols and his actors to gather, sometimes as companions though often alone, similar to a Renaissance composition but without a didactic message. The lack of moralising is part...