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LEN FOX PAINTING AWARD | CASTLEMAINE ART MUSEUM 27 | SEPTEMBER 2024 - 2 MARCH 2025
The Len Fox Painting Award opens 27 September 2024, running until 2 March 2025, with opening night and prize ceremony held Friday 27 September.
We are proud to represent two of this year's award finalists, Nellie Ngampa Coulthard and Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi, and are looking forward to seeing their work exhibited in this prestigious prize.
FORTHCOMING MAJOR PUBLICATION | 65,000 YEARS: A SHORT HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN ART
Launching this month is a landmark publication on the history of Indigenous Australian art, 65,000 years: A Short History of Australian Art, edited by Marcia Langton AO and Judith Ryan AM and published by Thames & Hudson. This courageous and comprehensive exploration calls us to bear witness to 65,000 years of continuous culture, Indigenous knowledge and powerful art.
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art stares into the dark heart of Australia’s brutal colonial history and offers new insights into the first art of this country.
NGV ANNOUNCES LARGEST-EVER STAGING OF ITS BARK PAINTING COLLECTION
With over 150 works, Bark Salon is the largest-ever staging of the NGV’s dynamic and expansive holdings of bark paintings. Exhibited on the ground floor of the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, within Wurrdha Marra, Bark Salon showcases the breadth of bark painting as a genre, tracing genealogical shifts in form, aesthetic, narrative and politic.
MEDIEVAL TO METAL: THE ART & EVOLUTION OF THE GUITAR ART | GALLERY OF BALLARAT
Running from 12 October 2024 - 2 February 2025, the Art Gallery of Ballarat has announced the forthcoming exhibition, Medieval to Metal: The Art & Evolution of the Guitar. Exclusive to the Art Gallery of Ballarat, the exhibition features 40 iconic guitars on loan from the National Guitar Museum (USA) alongside an awe-inspiring assemblage of photographs, paintings, drawings, illustrative designs, and objects - including work by Alcaston Gallery represented artist Tiger Yaltangki.
SALLY GABORI: LINES - ALIGNING YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS WITH THE FLOW | 21ST CENTURY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, JAPAN
Major work by Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda SALLY GABORI is currently presented at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, in Lines - Aligning your consciousness with the flow until 14 October 2024.
