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Art Almanac Australia's Monthly Briefing on Art | www.art-almanac.com.au John McDonald
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Each month, Art Almanac publishes its renowned and comprehensive Gallery and Art Services Listings in a compact and easy to digest magazine. It also features extended Exhibition Reviews, the latest Art News and Events, as well as a selection of Exhibitions in Brief. Digitally, the website is a dynamic offering based on the monthly print journal but enhanced by real-time updates of what’s happening

in the Australian art community, as well as where and when to see it. The eAlmanac – a weekly newsletter – provides a snapshot of art, exhibitions, news and special events from around the country to an extensive email subscriber base.

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"There is no doubt as to Australia's most valuable art publication... This small, independent, monthly publication bills itself as the essential guide to Australia's galleries, and this is the simple truth. For a long time I've been in the habit of marking up each new issue as though it were the form guide, carrying it with me from one gallery to the next."

PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITY // The Lawn, Waterfront BrisbaneEntries close on Monday, 21 July 2025.Artists are invited to subm...
23/06/2025

PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITY // The Lawn, Waterfront Brisbane


Entries close on Monday, 21 July 2025.

Artists are invited to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) for one of Brisbane’s most significant new public destinations - Dexus’s Waterfront Brisbane.

The Art Opportunity 3: The Lawn is an interactive, sculptural installation series forming part of the precinct’s permanent public art collection. It is a part of Dexus’s $2.5B transformation of Brisbane’s riverfront into a vibrant, city-shaping cultural precinct.

The opportunity is open to local, national, and international artists at all career stages.

Artists are encouraged to submit concepts that reflect the site’s cultural, environmental, and historical layers, and demonstrate strong suitability for outdoor public engagement and long-term maintenance.
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To find out more and for the full Artist Brief and to apply➡️ https://wdmanagement.com.au/eoi/
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ON VIEW// Writers Revealed: Treasures from the British Library and National Portrait Gallery, LondonShowing at HOTA Gall...
23/06/2025

ON VIEW// Writers Revealed: Treasures from the British Library and National Portrait Gallery, London
Showing at HOTA Gallery, Gold Coast until 3 August 2025



This exhibition – a collaboration between two distinguished British institutions, the National Portrait Gallery, London and the British Library – displays for the first time seventy portraits with over one hundred rare manuscripts and first editions.

Spanning the sixteenth century to the present day, it explores the enduring legacy of writers across the ages, featuring such icons as William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, William Blake, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and J R R Tolkien, along with contemporary luminaries Sir Kazuo Ishiguro and Zadie Smith.

“So many of the works in this show both reveal aspects of authors’ characters and lives,and also conceal things,” co-curator Catharine MacLeod – Senior Curator of Seventeenth-century Collections at the National Portrait Gallery, London – tells Dr Joseph Brennan about Writers Revealed. “But the things that are concealed – which in the case of women are often their gender itself – reveal things about the conditions in which people worked, and the societies in which they lived.”

➡️Feature story by Dr Joseph Brennan: www.art-almanac.com.au/hota-writers-revealed/
➡️More info: www.hota.com.au/whats-on/live/exhibitions/writers-revealed

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Image: George Charles Beresford, Virginia Woolf, July 1902, platinum print, 15.2 × 10.8cm
© National Portrait Gallery, London

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ENTRIES OPEN// 2025 Mosman Art Prize | $89,000 in prizesEntries close 11pm, Friday 18 July.The Mosman Art Prize is an ac...
18/06/2025

ENTRIES OPEN// 2025 Mosman Art Prize | $89,000 in prizes


Entries close 11pm, Friday 18 July.

The Mosman Art Prize is an acquisitive award of $70,000 with the artwork entering the Mosman Art Collection – an historic collection that includes Margaret Olley, Guy Warren, Cressida Campbell, Guan Wei, Jasper Knight, Natasha Walsh and most recently Gemma Smith.

The prize is an open painting prize without a specific theme for submissions.

There are five prizes:
🏆 Mosman Art Prize (major acquisitive prize) – $70,000
🏆 Margaret Olley Commendation Award – $10,000
🏆 Allan Gamble Award – $5,000
🏆 Guy Warren Emerging Artist Award (less than 10 years practice) – $3,000
🏆 Viewers’ Choice Award – $1,000

For more information and to apply ➡️ https://mosmanartgallery.org.au/event/mosman-art-prize-call-to-entries/

ON VIEW// Marisabel Gonzalez | De Rerum Natura: On the Matter of ThingsShowing at Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, ...
04/06/2025

ON VIEW// Marisabel Gonzalez | De Rerum Natura: On the Matter of Things
Showing at Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, Sydney, from 28 May to 21 June 2025.

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Artist Marisabel Gonzalez blends medical and natural images from an abstract point of view, using painting to illuminate the invisible structures that bind us – such as waves of energy, fleeting traces of life and the echoes of our shared humanity. Just as Lucretius sought to explain the unseen forces shaping existence.

Exhibition opening:
Wednesday 4 June, 6–8pm
Enjoy live Latin music by the band Oriente Tres
Light refreshments provided
Free event

➡️More info: www.gallerylanecove.com.au or email: [email protected]
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Image: Marisabel Gonzalez, From The Bottom Acrylic (detail), spray paint, pastels and oil pigments on canvas, 120 x 140 x 4cm.
Photograph: Kayapa Creative Studios
Courtesy the artist and Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, Sydney
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ENTRIES OPEN// The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize | $29,000 in prizesEntries close on Sunday 13 July 2025.Artists of al...
28/05/2025

ENTRIES OPEN// The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize | $29,000 in prizes


Entries close on Sunday 13 July 2025.

Artists of all backgrounds and experience levels are invited to submit entries for the 2025 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. Presented by Woollahra Council and hosted at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, the Prize offers a platform for established and emerging, local and international artists to present original sculptures measuring up to 80cm in any dimension.

All works are blind judged, with selected finalists exhibited in a free public exhibition from 26 September to 16 November 2025. Winners will be announced at the opening on Thursday 25 September.

Categories include:
🏆 The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize – $25,000
🏆 Special Commendation Award – $2,000
🏆 Mayor’s Award – $1,000
🏆 Viewers’ Choice Award – $1,000

There is no limit to the number of entries an artist can submit, and collaborative entries are welcome.
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For more information and to apply ➡️ www.woollahragallery.com.au/Artists/Woollahra-Small-Sculpture-Prize
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ON VIEW// 'Fahn (James Gardiner) Presence' at Art Atrium 48 has been extended to 14 June 2025 ➡️ Panel Discussion:New d...
20/05/2025

ON VIEW// 'Fahn (James Gardiner) Presence' at Art Atrium 48 has been extended to 14 June 2025




➡️ Panel Discussion:
New date: Wednesday, 28 May 6-8pm, with Fahn (James Gardiner), Kon Gouriotis, Martin John Oldfield, and Simon Chan

➡️Artist Performance:
Saturday, 31 May 2–4pm

Register your interest for the panel discussion and artist performance:
➡️ [email protected]
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Rooted in architectural abstraction, Fahn’s works invite viewers to engage with multi perspectival ambiguity. His 'Sentience' and 'Presence' series – comprising floor drawings and digitally fabricated relief paintings, respectively – investigate those shifting perceptions of the digital age. 'Sentience' was consciously created without intention, while 'Presence' compounds the ‘perspectival flip’ idea by evolving his drawings through collaboration with a 3D digital cutting machine.
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Image: Fahn (James Gardiner), Presence Pr24-24, acrylic polymer on machine cut mixed media board (chip, resin, card and fibre board, styrene foam and plywood), 181 x 146 x 5cm.
Courtesy the artist and Art Atrium 48, Sydney.
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ON VIEW// Fahn (James Gardiner) PresenceOpening Night: Thursday, 8 May 6–8 pmShowing at Art Atrium 48, Sydney from the 8...
08/05/2025

ON VIEW// Fahn (James Gardiner) Presence
Opening Night: Thursday, 8 May 6–8 pm
Showing at Art Atrium 48, Sydney from the 8 to 31 May 2025.



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This exhibition of Sydney-based artist Fahn (James Gardiner) explores presence and unknowing through a play with ambiguity and “the perspectival flip.”

Rooted in architectural abstraction, Fahn’s works invite viewers to engage with multi perspectival ambiguity. His Sentience and Presence series – comprising floor drawings and digitally fabricated relief paintings, respectively – investigate those shifting perceptions of the digital age. Sentience was consciously created without intention, while Presence compounds the ‘perspectival flip’ idea by evolving his drawings through collaboration with a 3D digital cutting machine; here, we have blended analogue and digital techniques.

➡️Exhibition launch by Katrina Cashman, Gallery Manager, National Art School

➡️Exhibition Panel Discussion: Thursday, 22 May 6–8 pm
•Fahn (James Gardiner)
•Kon Gouriotis
•Martin John Oldfield
•Simon Chan

➡️Artist Performance: Saturday, 31 May 2–4 pm

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Image: Paper Sentience PaSe24-39, 2024, graphite, acrylic polymer, wax crayon and spray paint on Yupo, 96 × 79cm.
Courtesy the artist and Art Atrium 48, Sydney.
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Entries open// the churchie emerging art prize | Over $40,000 in prizesEntries close on Sunday 25 May 2025.The churchie ...
06/05/2025

Entries open// the churchie emerging art prize | Over $40,000 in prizes


Entries close on Sunday 25 May 2025.

The churchie emerging art prize is Australia’s longest running art prize for emerging contemporary artists.

Entries are open to all emerging Australian artists over the age of 18, regardless of their age, practice or medium.

A total of $41,000 is up for grabs in the following categories:

🏆 Overall Prize: $30,000
🏆 Special Commendation: $5,000
🏆 Commendation: 2 prizes, each $1,500
🏆 People’s Choice $3,000

All prizes are non-acquisitive and shortlisted works will be exhibited at Metro Arts in South Brisbane from 26 July to 9 August 2025.
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For more information and to apply ➡️ www.churchieemergingart.com.au or ➡️ or email➡️ [email protected]
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