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Finalists announced for the Ramsay Art Prize 2021 24 finalists selected from more than 350 entries in the coveted prize. Words: Maddy Matheson 24 finalists have been selected from more than 350 entries for the Ramsay Art Prize 2021, a biennial $100,000 acquisitive art prize presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and supported by the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation. The Ramsay Art Prize is open to submissions from Australian artists under the age of 40 working in any medium. The aim of the prize is to encourage growth in Australian artists at a pivotal moment in their career. “We are thrilled to present contemporary talent from every state and territory for the first time in the third iteration of the Ramsay Art Prize,” says AGSA Director, ....
Date Time Regional Gallery’s PORT exhibition opens 30 April: Bega Valley Naomi Hobson, Good Sister: “She told mum she was taking me for a ride down the road but she not.” Laine 2019, digital print (detail), 81 x 110cm BRVG: PORT, Bega Valley Regional Gallery’s latest pop-up exhibition space at the Eden Welcome Centre will feature its First Nations collection, Nhawandyi/Nanda Beeyaa: I see you, killer whale from 30 April to 17 September. “This exhibition’s title acknowledges its location at the Port of Eden, and the time when the wild killer whales hunted with the Yuin people, the traditional custodians of the lands and waters of the shire,” Gallery Director, Iain Dawson said. ....
Share The National Gallery of Victoria is turning to French art legends Monet, Degas and Renoir for a major winter exhibition it hopes will bring back big crowds, after a run of more contemporary, modern art exhibitions. The NGV has been buffeted by the pandemic. It was closed for most of last year, reopening for just a few days before Victoria was hit with the second wave of the virus, forcing it shut for most of the rest of last year. It was set to announce the new blockbuster exhibition, which will open in June, last Monday when the state was again hit with a five-day, snap lockdown. The winter masterpieces series has attracted over 7 million visitors to gallery with previous blockbusters including Van Gogh, Salvador Dali and MoMA at NGV. ....
Art in the plague year: when a painting is like a new sofa We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement In March last year a friend in Bangladesh forwarded a news item that said Australia’s borders would be closed until September. “Is it true!!!!” he exclaimed. I was sceptical and replied that neither the economy nor people’s limits of endurance would allow the closures to last that long. I thought we’d be flying again within a few months. It’s in such moments you discover you’re really an optimist. One month into 2021 and the international borders are just as firmly closed as they were at the end of March, maybe more so. The most dire predictions don’t see us travelling internationally until next year. More than 30,000 Australians can’t even get a flight home. ....