Reg Mombassa

finalists announced for portia geach memorial award

David Kary / 21 October 2021

A list of 57 finalists has been announced today for the country’s most distinguished portrait prize for female artists, the Portia Geach Memorial Award. The $30,000 annual prize is administered by the award trustee, Perpetual.

Established in 1961 by …

Literature

extinct : artistic impressions of our lost wildlife

Carol Dance / 17 October 2021

Extinct describes and illustrates 39 Australian creatures extinct in the Anthropocene. It does not include the megafauna, those huge wombats and kangaroos that became extinct around 50,000 years ago. The foreword by Brook Garru Andrew sums up this marvellous book, …