Sixty-six finalists for the 2023 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize – one of Australia’s most prestigious photography prizes – have been announced. Melbourne’s Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), which hosts the…
Month: July 2023
Hadley’s Art Prize 2023: Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan Wins Australia’s Richest Landscape Prize21 Jul 2023Art & Design The Yankunytjatjara artist won the $100,000 award for a painting that one judge says “gives you a surprise every time” you see it.
Hadley’s Orient Hotel is home to the country’s richest landscape art prize, and every year the historic hotel, in Hobart’s CBD, fills with art-minded patrons eager to find out who will be…
How To Build a Blockbuster: Inside the NGV’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces Exhibition, BonnardArt & Design20 Jul 2023
Overflowing with brilliant light and colour in the middle of a grey Melbourne winter, the NGV’s Bonnard exhibition takes the French painter’s propensity for bold, bright hues to another level. That’s no…
Photographer Travis De Vries on Capturing Landscapes During the Liminal Moments of Dawn and DuskArt & Design05 Jul 2023
Travis De Vries has always worked freely across different mediums. A proud Gamilaroi and Darug man, he has won considerable acclaim as a painter, dancer, storyteller, sculptor and podcast producer. But when…
A Viral Elephant Photo and Evading Killers: The High Risk, High Reward Photography of Adam OswellArt & Design04 Jul 2023
“We’re really in a critical decade,” says Adam Oswell. “This period we’re in right now, the next 10 years, is really going to determine our future in a very big way.” Oswell…