The biennial Paul Guest Drawing Prize highlights contemporary drawing practice in Australia. In 2024, the non-acquisitive cash award has increased to $18,000....
There is no typical tableau for Stephen Bush. His technicolour gestures and ‘neo-surrealism’ take compositional cues from Romantic painters, and yet his marbled surfaces are adrift from a particular time or place....
The display of works with shared subject matter or treatment en masse offers the audience the opportunity to reflect on the artist’s ongoing concerns, as well as to appreciate the virtuosity within Bush’s oeuvre....