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Australian art

July 2024

  • Portrait of Lesley Dumbrell 2023 with her artwork 'Solstice' 1974, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter ***These images may only be used in conjunction with editorial coverage of the 'Lesley Dumbrell: Thrum' exhibition, 20 July – 13 October 2024, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and strictly in accordance with the terms of access to these images – see artgallery.nsw.gov.au/info/access-to-agnsw-media-room-tcs. Without limiting those terms, these images must not be cropped or overwritten; prior approval in writing is required for use as a cover; caption details must accompany reproductions of the images; and archiving is not permitted.*** Media contact: media@ag.nsw.gov.au

    ‘I thought, I’ll show you guys’: eye-popping artist Lesley Dumbrell finally gets her due at 82

    Since the 1950s, Dumbrell has fought sexism and conservative thinking to be recognised as one of Australia’s most respected abstract painters – and she’s nowhere near done
  • Namila Benson in a fluffy pink jacket multicoloured dress wearing blue lipstick walking in a park

    Walk with ...
    Namila Benson: ‘A big part of our culture is denialism. We just don’t know how to have difficult conversations’

    The ABC presenter on how the arts can ask serious questions, why she doesn’t always love her job and her own true heartbreak
  • Jesus Speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem by artist Philjames

    Artwork featuring Christ overlaid with Looney Tunes characters removed by Sydney council after threats of violence

    Online protest claimed the work mocked the Christian religion and Liverpool mayor Ned Mannoun called for it to be taken down

June 2024

  • Lindy Lee standing among large metal cylinders

    Ouroboros: NGA’s polarising new four-year $14m artwork to close roads on its journey to Canberra

    Lindy Lee told ‘to be as ambitious as you possibly can’ and to not even consider the cost of her project to ‘announce the NGA is here’

May 2024

  • Australian businesswoman Gina Rinehart

    Australian arts in focus
    Gina Rinehart gifted painting of herself to National Portrait Gallery, Senate estimates told

  • The gallery's director declines to detail what the conditions are, as they are currently under negotiation, but indicated they are to do with the way the work would be displayed

    Gina Rinehart gave portrait of herself to National Portrait Gallery, Senate estimates hears – video

  • Rhythms of heritage by Matt Adnate, painted with spray paint and synthetic polymer paint on linen. His portrait of Baker Boy has won the packing room prize as part of the 2024 Archibalds

    Australian arts in focus
    Archibald prize 2024: Baker Boy portrait wins packing room prize

  • Archibald Prize 2024 finalist, Kelly Maree ‘Josh Heuston’, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 125 x 145.5 cm © the artist, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter Sitter: Josh Heuston ***This information and these images are embargoed until 11.30am on 30 May 2024*** These images may only be used in conjunction with editorial coverage of the Archibald Prize 2024 exhibition, 8 June – 8 September 2024, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and strictly in accordance with the terms of access to these images – see artgallery.nsw.gov.au/info/access-to-agnsw-media-room-tcs. Without limiting those terms, these images must not be cropped or overwritten; prior approval in writing is required for use as a cover; caption details must accompany reproductions of the images; and archiving is not permitted. Media contact: media@ag.nsw.gov.au

    Archibald prize 2024 finalists: Julian Assange, Tony Armstrong, Chloé Hayden and more – in pictures

  • Australian arts in focus
    Doug Moran prize: Australia’s richest portrait award quietly ‘put on hold’

  • Gina Rinehart tried to hide her portrait – it went global instead

  • Gina Rinehart's portrait: how painting of billionaire made headlines around the world – video

  • Out of cold storage: the miraculous rediscovery of Australian art’s most coveted fridge

  • Redone, hidden, burnt: seven famous subjects and the portraits they hated

April 2024

  • Michael McCormack and the giant chiko roll made by Chris Roe

    ‘It’s not about where you were conceived’: how a giant Chiko Roll reignited a feud among Australian towns

  • ARTHUR STREETON 1867-1943 Sunlight at the Camp 1894 oil on canvas signed and dated ‘StrEEton / 94’ lower right 31 x 60.7 cm frame: S.A. Parker, Sydney (label verso) PROVENANCE Arthur Streeton, Sydney Private Collection, Sydney The Ruth Simon Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

    Painting of Sydney Harbour by impressionist Arthur Streeton sells for $1.875m

  • Archie Moore's presentation in the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

    ‘Very totemic and very Aboriginal’: Australia’s entry at Venice Biennale is a family tree going back 65,000 years

  • ARTHUR STREETON 1867-1943 Sunlight at the Camp 1894 oil on canvas signed and dated ‘StrEEton / 94’ lower right 31 x 60.7 cm frame: S.A. Parker, Sydney (label verso) PROVENANCE Arthur Streeton, Sydney Private Collection, Sydney The Ruth Simon Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

    Arthur Streeton painting of Sydney Harbour shown in public for first time in 130 years

March 2024

  • Artist Kirsha Kaechele, creator of Ladies Lounge at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), exiting a hearing in the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on 19 March 2024

    Artist behind Mona’s ladies-only lounge ‘absolutely delighted’ man is suing for gender discrimination

    NSW man Jason Lau claims denying men entry is discriminatory, but artist Kirsha Kaechele says men’s ‘experience of rejection is the artwork’

February 2024

  • Baleen Moondjan runs at Glenelg beach until 2 March.

    Adelaide festival 2024: giant whalebones pierce the sunset for ‘transformative’ opening night

  • Nik Pantazopoulos’s installation at the Adelaide Biennial

    Adelaide Biennale 2024: light takes centre stage in ‘tender’ survey of Australian art

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