Visual arts news
Australia Council arts project harnesses virtual worlds with brain power - 04 July 2008
The Australia Council for the Arts today announced the recipients of its $30,000 collaborative massive multi-user virtual environment (MMUVE) arts project, MMUVE IT! – The organisation’s second virtual worlds arts initiative.
Australian contingent selected for Venice Biennale 2009 - 20 May 2008
The Australia Council for the Arts today announced Australia’s official representation for the Venice Biennale 2009.
Australia Council launches next wave virtual world arts initiative - 24 April 2008
The Australia Council for the Arts today announced its latest virtual world initiative – MMUVE it! – offering up to $30,000 for a collaborative arts project in any massive multi-user virtual environment (MMUVE).
Australia Council honours pioneer jeweller and arts advocate - 05 March 2008
One of Australia’s leading jewellers Mari Funaki, and celebrated arts advocate Emeritus Professor David Williams AM, have been honoured with the 2007 Australia Council for the Arts’ Visual Arts Emeritus Award and the Visual Arts Emeritus Medal respectively.
Guides to help do the right thing with Indigenous culture - 28 February 2008
The Australia Council for the Arts has released a fully revised second edition of its protocol guides to help Australians better understand the use of Indigenous cultural material.
Australia Council announces 2009 Venice Biennale commissioner - 14 February 2008
The Australia Council for the Arts today announced the appointment of Doug Hall AM as commissioner for the Australian exhibition at the 53rd Venice Biennale Festival in 2009.
2008 Biennale of Sydney online venue now open - 07 February 2008
The online component of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney is now available to the public. The site features preview artworks, texts and projects based on the exhibition theme Revolutions - Forms That Turn. The 2008 Sydney Biennale kicks off from 18 June to 7 September 2008.
Experimenta to foster media art curating talent with 2008/9 forums - 20 December 2007
Experimenta Media Arts has received support from the Australia Council to deliver a series of forums over the next two years to foster media arts curating and collecting in regional and rural areas.
International visual arts and craft fair program review: request for tender - 17 December 2007
The Australia Council for the Arts invites tenders from suitably experienced suppliers to undertake a review and evaluation of its International Visual Arts and Craft Fair (IVACF) 2005-7 Program.
Opportunity for Pacific dreaming in American Samoa - 16 November 2007
Australia Council for the Arts is looking for Indigenous dancers, musicians, actors, writers and visual artists to join Australia’s delegation to the 2008 Festival of Pacific Arts.
Australian artist wins People's Choice award at Toronto's nuit blanche festival - 14 November 2007
Brisbane artist, Craig Walsh has received the People’s Choice award for his work INCURSION at the nuit blanche festival in Toronto, Canada.
Australia Council mourns John Stringer - 14 November 2007
John Stringer, internationally known Australian curator and for the last forty years one of Australian art’s greatest proponents, has died aged 70.
National Indigenous Art Triennial - 12 October 2007
Culture Warriors - Australia's first Indigenous Art Triennial
Australian artists impress at Documenta - 25 September 2007
Documenta 12 closed this week after 100 days, having attracted more than 754,000 visitors and 15,000 journalists and curators from 52 countries.
Media arts mentorships announced - 24 September 2007
The careers of four young Australian media artists will be boosted through a pilot mentorship program.
Shaun Gladwell solo exhibition opens - 20 September 2007
A solo exhibition by one of Australia's most prominent video artists has opened in Sydney.
New program provides platform for green design - 19 September 2007
One hundred small environmental design companies will have the opportunity to build their business through the Australian Design Platform.
Australia Council mourns Stephen Birch - 06 September 2007
The Sydney artist Stephen Birch died on Sunday 2nd September 2007 after a long battle with cancer. He was 46.
Australia’s first Second Life artists residency recipients announced - 05 September 2007
The Australia Council for the Arts today announced the recipients of its $20,000 artists residency in the 3-D online virtual world of Second Life.
Australia Council to support SymbioticA to CyberArts07 - 30 August 2007
The Australia Council has awarded over $34,000 to the O.K Centre for Contemporary Art for SymbioticA to exhibit in the celebrated new media festival, CyberArts07 at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria this September.
National Indigenous Art Award - 14 August 2007
The Australia Council for the Arts congratulates Dennis Nona whose 650-kilogram bronze sculpture of a crocodile has won the Telstra National Indigenous Art Award.
Australian designers on the way to commercial success - 26 July 2007
The Australia Council for the Arts has awarded $120,000 to designers to take their artistic works to commercial markets.
Natasha Johns Messenger wins 2007 Den Haag Sculpture Rabo Bank Award - 03 July 2007
The Australia Council for the Arts congratulates Natasha Johns-Messenger on winning the Den Haag Sculptuur Rabobank Award 2007.
Creative sparks ignite for young artists - 29 June 2007
Twelve young artists from across Australia will gain a kick-start to their professional career in the arts, as they begin the 2007 SPARK mentoring program.
Australian artists clean up at the 2007 Prix Ars Electronica International Competition for CyberArts - 22 June 2007
The Australia Council for the Arts congratulates SymbioticA and Australian artists Leon Cmielewski and Josephine Starrs, who have received accolades at the 2007 Prix Ars Electronica International Competition for CyberArts.
The European summer of Australian art continues in the Netherlands - 14 June 2007
World-renowned contemporary sculpture exhibition Den Haag Sculptuur/The Hague Sculpture this year celebrates its 10th anniversary with De Overkant/Down Under – a special jubilee exhibition of contemporary Australian sculpture and art in the public space.
Aussie artists hit Venice for six - 08 June 2007
The opening of the Australian artists’ exhibitions at the Venice Biennale has been an outstanding success, says Australian commissioner John Kaldor.
52nd Venice Biennale opens tomorrow - 06 June 2007
Australia’s largest ever contingent of artists and curators gets ready for the world’s biggest contemporary art exhibition, the 2007 Venice Biennale.
Indigenous curators to experience the 2007 Venice Biennale - 03 May 2007
Four Indigenous curators will join the Australian contingent at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
3 artists, 3 projects, 3 sites - Australia at the Venice Biennale 2007 - 24 April 2007
The resilience of local villagers confronting a deluge of mud, a major environmental disaster. The interaction between pictorial space and real space and between expectation and perception. The erasure of property development and the erasure of warfare and disaster and the personal versus the global.
Australian artists to bring even more innovation to market - 19 March 2007
The Australia Council for the Arts is calling for applications to its 2007 Maker to Manufacturer to Market (MMM) initiative. Four grants of $30,000 each are available.
Largest ever Australian contingent for Venice Biennale 2007 - 06 March 2007
Australia’s profile at the Venice Biennale 2007 will be at an unprecedented high with three leading Australian artists newly selected for the curated section of the event.
ANAT's pixel.play project wins SA Short Screen Award - 02 March 2007
ANAT's pixel.play project has won the 'Innovation in Digital Media' category at the SA Short Screen Awards.
Australia Council celebrates two diverse careers with renowned visual arts awards - 14 February 2007
Australia’s most celebrated Aboriginal ceramicist, Dr Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher AO (Thancoupie), and director of Asialink Arts Program, Alison Carroll, have been honoured with the 2006 Australia Council for the Arts’ Visual Arts Emeritus Award and the Visual Arts Emeritus Medal respectively.
Professional development at Venice Biennale - 13 February 2007
Fifteen Australian curators and arts educators will participate in the world's most important forum for contemporary visual arts, the 2007 Venice Biennale, as part of an Australia Council for the Arts initiative.
Chair of visual arts board appointed - 27 December 2006
Professor Ted Snell has been appointed chair of the Australia Council's Visual Arts Board until December 2009.
$3.5 million for big picture programs - 11 December 2006
The Australia Council for the Arts has allocated more than $3.5 million to nine major projects in the latest round of strategic initiatives funding.
Sculpture by the Sea - 10 December 2006
At its September meeting, the Australia Council’s governing body approved the funding of strategic initiatives for 2007. One of the strategic initiatives, which includes an education component, is support for Sculpture by the Sea.
Indigenous contemporary art books initiative - 18 September 2006
The visual arts board, in consultation with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts board, will work with Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) over the next three years to publish 10 Indigenous contemporary art books.
New horizons for Australian visual artists - 23 August 2006
Five outstanding Australian visual artists will reach new creative heights through Australia Council for the Arts fellowships each worth $90,000 over the next two years.
Australia Council welcomes inquiry into Indigenous visual art sector - 18 August 2006
The Australia Council for the Arts today welcomed the decision by the Australian Government to hold a parliamentary inquiry to examine ways to strengthen the Indigenous visual arts and craft sector.
Spark 2006: Eleven young artists with fire in their eyes - 02 August 2006
Eleven young artists from across Australia have set their sights on success, as they commence the 2006 SPARK mentoring program.
Australian designers go to market - 01 August 2006
The Australia Council for the Arts will give three individual grants of $30,000 to designers and craftspeople to bring art into Australian homes and the public space.
Australia Council mourns the passing of Franco Belgiorno-Nettis - 10 July 2006
The Australia Council for the Arts mourns the sudden passing of a great contributor to the arts in Australia – Franco Belgiorno-Nettis.
Australian Indigenous art to become Parisian cultural landmark - 30 May 2006
The artworks of eight leading Australian Indigenous artists, specially commissioned for the major new Musée du quai Branly in Paris - one of the most significant cross-cultural collaborations between Australia and France - will be unveiled by President Jacques Chirac on 20 June.
A ceremony of celebration to honour the Australian Indigenous Art Commission - 30 May 2006
The Australia Council for the Arts has enlisted one of Indigenous Australia’s most respected artistic directors, Rhoda Roberts, to produce the gifting ceremony of the Australian Indigenous Art Commission (AIAC) at the new Musée du quai Branly in Paris on 23 June.
Biennale of Sydney 2006 - zones of contact - 23 May 2006
The Biennale of Sydney is one of the most exciting contemporary art events in Australia’s cultural calendar.
Three Australian artists chosen for Venice Biennale 2007 - 23 May 2006
The Australia Council for the Arts today announced that Susan Norrie (NSW), Daniel von Sturmer (VIC) and Callum Morton (VIC) had been chosen to represent Australia at the 2007 Venice Biennale, from June to November next year.
Harold Mitchell Foundation announces gift in support of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris and Indigenous artists - 02 May 2006
The Harold Mitchell Foundation has announced it is the major partner with the Australian Government and Australia Council for the Arts for the Australian Indigenous Art Commission (AIAC) in the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, a new museum dedicated to the art and culture of the indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas.
Webcasting 1001 nights - 01 May 2006
Innovative text-based artworks on contemporary events in the Middle East are being webcast for 1001 nights.
Maker to Manufacturer to Market commercialises creative concepts - 01 May 2006
The Australia Council for the Arts today launched a $300,000 initiative - Maker to Manufacturer to Market - that will help visual artists turn creative ideas into commercial success.
Unquiet landscapes exhibit in Denmark - 20 April 2006
A major exhibition by Australian photomedia artist Rosemary Laing will be shown in the city of Odense, Denmark between May and September 2006.
Selection panel for Australia's representation at the 2007 Venice Biennale - 13 April 2006
The 2007 artist/s will be chosen by a panel comprising John Kaldor AM, Australian Commissioner; Lesley Alway, Chair, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council; Juliana Engberg, Artistic Director, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art; and Rachel Kent, Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art.
Young artists get creative SPARK - 11 April 2006
The national SPARK mentoring program gives young artists the chance to get their creativity crackling
Australian artists’ incomes to get multi-million dollar boost - 06 April 2006
The Australia Council for the Arts will invest more than $2.8 million to increase the earnings of Australian artists.
Brief for the Australian exhibition at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 - 31 March 2006
The Australia Council for the Arts is calling for expressions of interest to represent Australia at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.
Vale Pro Hart - 28 March 2006
The Australia Council for the Arts today pays tribute to the remarkable life and prodigious work of famed Australian visual artist Pro Hart who passed away at his home in Broken Hill in the early hours of 28 March 2006.
Australian Commissioner for 2007 Venice Biennale - 02 March 2006
The Australia Council for the Arts today announced the appointment of Mr John Kaldor AM as Commissioner for the Australian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, studio residency - 21 February 2006
Natascha Stellmach to undertake residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
Australia Council mourns Mutlu Cerkez - 16 December 2005
The Australia Council mourns the passing of artist Mutlu Cerkez, a gifted conceptual artist who also undertook ambitious installation projects.
Awards celebrate key figures in art landscape - 24 November 2005
Two eminent figures in the visual arts, painter John Wolseley and curator Robert Bell, were honoured by the Australia Council for the Arts at a ceremony held in Melbourne.
The visual arts board is born - 24 October 2005
The Australia Council has changed the name of its visual arts/craft board to the visual arts board.
Ricky Swallow to exhibit at P.S.1 in 2006 - 19 July 2005
Ricky Swallow, renowned Australian artist and representative at the 51st Biennale Venezia, will exhibit at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center NY in 2006.
J Arts Crew revealed - 05 July 2005
From August 2005, the J ARTS CREW will begin broadcasting on ABC Radio's Triple J network.
Ricky Swallow wins hearts at Venice - 29 June 2005
More than 15,500 international arts curators and critics have seen the exquisite works of Ricky Swallow in the first four days at the Venice Biennale. A record 5,000 people attended on the third day of the preview.
Raw Space residency program begins - 29 June 2005
Raw Space is hosting Australia's largest new media and visual arts residency program with 32 participants over the next 12 months.
Maker to Manufacturer to Market - 01 June 2005
The MMM strategic initiative tests the idea of income sustainability in the craft/design sector.
Director of visual arts/craft appointed - 18 May 2005
Anna Waldmann has been appointed as the director of visual arts/craft.
Vale Joan Brassil - 20 April 2005
The much loved and admired artist Joan Brassil passed away yesterday at the age of 86.
Art luminaries honoured - 18 March 2005
Two celebrated figures of Australian visual arts have received the Australia Council's 2004 Visual Arts/Craft Emeritus Award and Medal. Prolific photographer Jeff Carter and eminent art historian Bernard Smith were honoured today in a tribute delivered by Senator Rod Kemp, Minister for the Arts and Sport.
Callum Morton takes Tomorrow Land to the 11th Indian Triennale - 11 January 2005
Callum Morton takes Tomorrow Land to the 11th Indian Triennale Callum Morton will represent Australia at one of the world's premier arts events, the 11th Indian Triennale with a new collection of digital images pairing Le Corbusier's iconic architectural designs for Chandigarh with Michael Crichton's 1974 B-grade sci-fi thriller Westworld. Morton's Tomorrow Land, opens on 15 January in New Delhi.
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