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John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize
The John McCaughey Prize, also known as the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, McCaughey Prize, McCaughey Art Prize or McCaughey Art Award, is an Australian art prize awarded to an artist or artists, under which the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales acquire work by the winning artist. The John McCaughey Memorial Prize was instituted by Mona McCaughey in 1957, to commemorate her father John, an Irish-born pastoral industry investor who had died in Sydney on 20 June 1928. John was the younger brother of Sir Samuel McCaughey, also a pastoralist. Two prizes were established, one in Melbourne (administered through the National Gallery of Victoria) and one in Sydney (administered through the Art Gallery of New South Wales). It is awarded periodically, typically every few years. As an acquisitive prize, it enables the National Gallery of Victoria to acquire works from each of the winning artists. The prize fund is held by the John McCaughey Memorial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Art School
The National Art School (NAS) is a tertiary level art school, located in , an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school is an independent accredited higher education provider offering specialised study in studio arts practice across various disciplines. With its origins in the formation of Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts in 1843, NAS has been in operation on the historic Darlinghurst Gaol site in East Sydney in various forms since 1922 and was formerly part of East Sydney Technical College, known as East Sydney Tech. Today NAS is a centre for education, research, scholarship and professional practice in the visual arts and related fields. In 2022 the school marks 100 years occupying the sandstone buildings of the former Darlinghurst Gaol, combining a long artistic tradition with its modern role educating Australia's future contemporary artists. NAS Tertiary Degree Program NAS has three full-time visual art degrees: Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopkins (artist)
John Hopkins may refer to: Politics * John Hopkins (Bristol MP), member of the English House of Commons in 1601 * John Hopkins (died 1732), English merchant, Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ives 1710–15 and Ilchester 1715–22 * John Hopkins (lieutenant governor), lieutenant governor of South Carolina, 1806-1808 * John Patrick Hopkins (1858–1918), mayor of Chicago 1893–1895 * John Rout Hopkins (1829–1897), politician of Victoria, Australia * Sir John Hopkins, 1st Baronet (1863–1946), English Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for St Pancras South East 1918–23 and 1924–29 * John Marquis Hopkins (1870–1912), Australian politician Sports * John Hopkins (cricketer) (born 1953), former Welsh cricketer * John Hopkins (American football) (born c. 1969), American football placekicker * John Hopkins (motorcyclist) (born 1983), American motorcycle racer Arts and entertainment * John Hopkins (actor) (born 1974), British actor * John Hopkins (artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jess Johnson
Jess Johnson (born 1979) is a New York-based New Zealand contemporary artist who works in drawing, installation, animation, and virtual reality. Her drawings depict alternative realms while her collaborations with Simon Ward and Andrew Clarke adapt the world of her drawings into video animations and virtual reality. Early life and education Jess Johnson was born in Tauranga, New Zealand in 1979. She grew up in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand and attended University of Canterbury in Christchurch from 1997 to 2001, where she earned a BFA. Career In 2004 she moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she co-founded and ran Hell Gallery from 2008 to 2011. She began exhibiting her work in group and solo shows throughout Australia and New Zealand, including shows at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. In 2016 she relocated permanently to New York City after participating in the Australia Council's Greene Street re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Sansom
Gareth Sansom (born 19 November 1939) is an Australian artist, painter, printmaker and collagist and winner of the 2008 John McCaughey Memorial Prize of $100,000. Best known for introducing new themes and subject-matter into Australian art and being one of the first Australian artists to be influenced by Pop art, particularly British Pop artists like Peter Blake, Allen Jones, Derek Boshier, Joe Tilson and the formal strategies of the post-modernist R. B. Kitaj. Another major Influence was and remains the British painter Francis Bacon. He was an associate of Brett Whiteley and there was a likely mutual influence. Sansom has had a distinct influence on subsequent Australian art, paving the way for later notable artists such as Juan Davila and Howard Arkley. His work is represented by the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Mertz Collection. His paintings are eclec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wrigley
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer *Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church *Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire *Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general *Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist *Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer *Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals *Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people *Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice, Byzan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Hagerty
Marie Hagerty (born 1964) is an Australian artist, painter, sculptor and teacher. Biography Hagerty was born in Sydney in 1964. After obtaining a certificate in Visual Arts, Meadowbank College of TAFE, Sydney, she moved to Canberra. In 1988 Hagerty obtained a BA in Visual Arts at the Canberra School of Art, later returning to the Institution in the 1990s to teach part-time. Hagerty's first exhibition as an emerging artist in 1988 was reviewed by senior art critic for the Canberra Times, Sasha Grishin. He found the exhibition ''Marie Hagerty: Paintings'' "full of energy and mischievous wit" but identified the work as that of a recent graduate. The figurative works were painted with emotion and Grishin found some of the more successful paintings "powerful and moving". The exhibition included three sculptures. In 1994, Hagerty was selected as a finalist in the Moet Chandon Travelling Exhibition. At the time of her selection, she referred to her creative inspirations as "manipula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Nelson
Jan Nelson (born 1955) is an Australian artist who works in sculpture, photography and painting. She is best known for her hyper real images of adolescents. She has exhibited widely in Australia as well as Paris and Brazil. Her works are in the collections of Australian galleries including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, as well as major regional galleries. She represented Australia in the XXV biennale in São Paulo, Brazil. Early life and education Nelson was born in Melbourne in 1955 and attended the Victorian College of the Arts, graduating in 1983. In 2018 she completed a PhD at Deakin University, Faculty of Arts & Education, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Melbourne. Her thesis, titled ''Lasagna composting: strategies for painting in a digital age'' proposed strategies for the survival of painting in a digital age. Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Fencer Napurrula
Lorna is a feminine given name. The name is said to have been first coined by R. D. Blackmore for the heroine of his novel ''Lorna Doone'', which appeared in 1869. Blackmore appears to have derived this name from the Scottish placename ''Lorn''/'' Lorne''. In the U.S., according to the 1990 census, the name ranks 572 of 4275, and as a surname, Lorna ranks 62296 out of 88799. Notable people named Lorna * Lorna Anderson, Scottish soprano * Lorna Aponte, Panamanian rapper * Lorna Arnold, British historian of the UK's nuclear weapons programmes * Lorna Bennett, Jamaican reggae singer * Dame Lorna May Boreland-Kelly, British magistrate and member of the Judicial Appointments Commission * Lorna Dee Cervantes, Chicana American poet * Lorna Cordeiro, singer from Goa, India * Lorna Jane Clarkson, Australian fashion designer, entrepreneur and author. * Lorna Crozier, Canadian poet and essayist *Lorna Dewaraja (born 1929), Sri Lankan historian * Lorna Dixon, Australian Aboriginal custodian a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Bennett (artist)
Gordon Bennett (9 October 1955 – 3 June 2014) was an Australian artist of Aboriginal and Anglo-Celtic descent. Born in Monto, Queensland, Bennett was a significant figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art. Early life Born in Monto, Queensland, in 1955, of Anglo-Celtic and Aboriginal ancestry, Gordon Bennett grew up in Victoria from the age of four, when his family moved back to Queensland, to the town of Nambour. He attended Nambour State High School. He left school at fifteen and worked in a variety of trades before undertaking formal art studies at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane between 1986 and 1988. Career Some of his work is about what he saw when he was young. His 1991 painting ''Nine Ricochets'' won the prestigious Moët & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship, and he rapidly established himself as a leading figure in the Australian art world. Bennett lived and worked in Brisbane, where he created paintings, prints and worked in multi-media. In 2004, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Cattapan
Jon Cattapan (born 1956) is an Australian visual artist best known for his abstract oil paintings of cityscapes, his service as the 63rd Australian war artist and his work as a professor of visual art at the University of Melbourne in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the Victorian College of the Arts. Cattapan's artworks are held in several major galleries and collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Australia. Early life and education Childhood and early adulthood Jon Cattapan was born in 1956 in Melbourne to Italian parents. Cattapan's family emigrated from Castelfranco in the Veneto region of Italy after World War II. Cattapan was first taught to draw aged six by an older cousin on a trip to Italy. Cattapan's family initially lived in the inner city suburb of Carlton, known as Melbourne's Little Italy, before moving to the suburb of Highett where Cattapan spent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginger Riley Munduwalawala
__NOTOC__ Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (1936 – 1 September 2002) was an Aboriginal Australian contemporary artist. He was born incountry, in the Limmen Bight area of the Gulf of Carpentaria coast. His first language was Marra,Ryan, J., Riley, G., & National Gallery of Victoria. (1997). Ginger Riley. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria. now a critically endangered language. Riley became an artist during the 1950s as a result of his encounter with Albert Namatjira. Riley was known for his distinctive style of using bright palette to paint a landscape of Gulf of Carpentaria, populated by mythological figures who created the region.Ginger Riley , by Grace and Tamara His art is a fusion of "Aboriginal" and "contemporary". He was referred to as "the boss of colour". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Boston
Paul Boston (born 1952) is an Australian artist. Life and work Paul Boston was born in Melbourne in 1952. While with at art school he developed an interest in Zen. After graduating, Boston travelled to Japan and South East Asia, where he spent time developing his Zen practice which informs much of his later work. Taking inspiration from Cubist and Abstract art, Boston has explored the nature of paradox in his paintings and drawings and has shown an interest in the interchangeability of form and space. Taking from his involvement with Zen practice, Boston is interested in creating a sense of the meditation experience for the viewer through his work, something he calls a contemplative presence, showing a careful consideration for tone and a refinement towards the fabrication of forms, whereby his shapes come to mean different things to different people. Boston has produced an impressive body of work that has been shown in solo exhibitions throughout Australia and in group shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
