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Exhibition review: Primavera 2024: Young Australian Artists, MCA

Now in its 33rd year, this year’s Primavera manages to deliver a dynamic exhibition via its fresh crop of artists.

Esther Forest, ‘The Pet Shop’, 2023 single channel video with audio, on view at 2024 Hatched National Graduate Show at PICA. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. Still from a video work featuring a cartoonish figure on the phone in a room with blue and purple lighting, filled with posters of animals.
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Which graduate artists have got their fingers on the pulse?

Over 20 graduate artists are showing the critical topics they have chosen to engage with at PICA’s 2024 Hatched: National…

India Mark, ‘Studio self-portrait’, 2023. Winner of the Ashurt Emerging Artist Prize. In the portrait, Mark looks candidly at the viewer. Wearing a collared black shirt, she appears to be painting her own portrait. She stands in front of a neon green canvas which contrasts her figure.
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The power of portraiture and human connection

The Lester Prize encourages submissions to explore the depths and reaches of identity expressed through portraiture.

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When generosity in art prizes pave the way

The National Photography Prize welcomes complete works or concepts still in development to encourage expanded thinking on the photographic medium.

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Seven career lessons from intergenerational artists

Career journeys offer many pathways. A group of artists aged from 26 to 66, share advice on managing the options…

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Is the myth of 'sameness' unwarranted across the emerging artist landscape?

When it comes to the emerging artist landscape in Australia, how accurate is a perception of "sameness" or are we…

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ARTEXPRESS 2023: showstoppers and advice

ARTEXPRESS celebrates 40 years. ArtsHub looks at the changes, this year's highlights and its curator's advice for emerging artists.

Visitors at National Emerging Art Prize, 2021 looking at art
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Newest prize on the block bolsters emerging careers

Extending cash prizes with a solo exhibition and access to collectors via the Michael Reid Gallery network, the National Emerging…

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Opportunities and awards wrap

Call outs for churchie emerging art prize, Scribe Varuna Fellowship plus winners of the 67th Blake Prize, 2022 Matilda Awards…

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5 curators on artists to watch in 2022

Who's hot in 2022? We asked five curators to name the visual artists who are on their radar for the…