Jeremy Eden has been announced as the winner of the Archibald Prize 2022 ANZ People’s Choice award for his portrait of Gold Logie award-winning actor and cancer charity campaigner Samuel Johnson OAM.
The artist and his sitter bonded …
Wendy Whiteley has made a $500,000 bequest to her alma mater, the National Art School (NAS).
“I’m trying to tidy up loose ends towards the end of my life because I don’t want to live another mess. There has been …
Senior Pitjantjatjara artist Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin has been announced as the winner of the annual acquisitive Hadley’s Art Prize 2022 – Australia’s richest landscape prize worth $100,000 – for her work titled Antara. Goodwin is the first woman …
Melbourne-based painter Mary Tonkin has won this year’s Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award with her landscape painting titled Hot kiss, Kalorama from works selected for the 2022 Salon des Refusés: The alternative Archibald & Wynne Prize selection exhibition. The …
This is a vibrant, thickly textured exhibition inspired by the landscapes of Sydney Harbour and Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. The trees and in particular the huge, dynamic rocks Summers has seen are featured, as well as a few sparkling paintings …
Tracing 60 years of work by one of Australia’s most significant feminist artists, VIVIENNE BINNS : ON AND THROUGH THE SURFACE is the first retrospective dedicated to the artist.
Curated by Anneke Jaspers (Senior Curator, Collection, MCA) and Hannah …
TREASURE ISLAND, unapologetically opaque and astute in ancestral vitality, leads audiences to uncover a shimmering, effervescent ‘X marks the spot’ – exchanging bejewelled chests of gold and silver for a prize far richer in value, as Boyd re-contextualises what …
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) and Tate yesterday announced the acquisition of six artworks by five artists as part of the International Joint Acquisition Program for contemporary Australian art.
Since its inception the program has made possible the …
Helpful Tips in Creating Beautiful Floral Paintings
Flower painting occurs when one or more flowers are depicted and has its antecedents in the scientific and herbal plant depiction. This painting form began as manuscripts in northern Europe and is common …
Thirty years ago the S. H. Ervin Gallery began exhibiting a selection of paintings not accepted into the prestigious Archibald portrait competition and to the Wynne Landscape competition held at the Art Gallery of NSW. Ever since, we have known …