Gary Heery explores the dichotomy of portraiture through the process of collaboration and negotiation between an artist and his subject....
Gary Heery: X Collaborative Portraits
Tag Archives: portraiture
2018 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture | People’s Choice
The '2018 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture' – WA’s premier portrait prize – attracted 500 artists from across Australia in which 40 finalists were selected. Find out which work was this year's People's Choice....
Dagmar Cyrulla: I Am
Dagmar Cyrulla's exhibition, 'I am', explores both the personal and collective identities of contemporary women in her personal life in a series of 13 nude portraits....
Portrait of Australian rapper Tkay Maidza wins $25,000 Kennedy Prize
A portrait of Australian singer-songwriter and rapper, Tkay Maidza, has won the 2018 Kennedy Prize. Angus Hamra created the winning artwork using aerosol, enamel and brass on canvas....
Alana Holmberg: Resist Laughter
Trained in the discipline of visual story-telling, Melbourne-based artist Alana Holmberg's latest exhibition, 'Resist Laughter', comprises portrait photography, audio interviews, found materials and text....
David Fairbairn: Drawn to Print
Although David Fairbairn's portraits confer to large mixed-media drawings, in recent years he has worked almost exclusively on large-scale etchings where he is able to reinforce the underlying formal and abstract structures in the depiction of the sitter, while still emphasising the emotional and psychological content...
$50,000 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture + Youth Prize winners
Western Australian artist Jana Vodesil-Baruffi was awarded this year’s $50,000 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, WA’s only portrait prize of its kind, for her work titled, Black Swan (2017). ...
The National Portrait Gallery’s Digital Portraiture Award 2017 finalists announced
The National Portrait Gallery has announced nine finalists for the Digital Portraiture Award 2017: Mundatju Munugurr , NT Timothy Hillier, VIC Patrick Bell, QLD Ralph Kenke, NSW Gutiarra Yunupiu, NT Sabella D’Souza, NSW Sue Healey, NSW Josh Owen, ACT Samantha Sommariva, VIC Judge and Director of...
$30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award | 2017 winner announced
Tasmanian-based artist Amanda Davies has been announced as the winner of the 2017 Portia Geach Memorial Award, the pre-eminent portraiture prize for women in Australia, for her painting of contemporary photographer Pat Brassington....
Tim Storrier AM wins 2017 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize invites entries of original works from domestic artists, capturing an Australian. From 30 finalists, Tim Storrier AM was selected as the winner of this year's prize....
Christian Thompson: We Bury Our Own at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi
We Bury Our Own by Christian Thompson opened this week at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Fitzroy....