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Coveted Wollumbin Art Award open for young and old
Are you an artist in the Northern Rivers? Now is the time to get your art ready and submitted to the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre’s coveted biennial Wollumbin Art Award (WAA).
The opportunity to enter has now been extended to residents of the Richmond Valley Council area.
The award, named after the sacred mountain which the Gallery overlooks, is open to artists living across the Northern Rivers in Tweed, Byron, Ballina, Lismore and Kyogle shires as well as from the Scenic Rim and City of Gold Coast.
Gallery Director Ingrid Hedgcock said the calibre of works showcased in the last Award exhibition was remarkable and gave insight into the diversity of practice across the region.
Artists can submit up to two entries of any subject matter and medium. Award categories include a First Prize of $15,000 and a two-week residency in the Gallery’s Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio; a $10,000 WAA Bundjalung Award for First Nations artists and a solo exhibition in the Gallery.
Read more: https://www.echo.net.au/2024/03/coveted-wollumbin-art-award-open-for-young-and-old/
Veteran and artist Barry John MBE has been chosen from 11 finalists as the overall winner if the British Contemporary Art Awards 2025.
The awards are run by British Contemporary Art, a curated website featuring the best of British painters and paintings, set up by the Harbour Gallery’s Mark David Hatwood FRSA.
Barry’s work Celtic Roots was shortlisted in the final. It has been named the winner by public vote.
Read More: https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/24939508.barry-john-mbe-wins-british-contemporary-art-award/
THE National Arts in Hospitals Network (NAHN) is celebrating success after scooping a top accolade at the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) Health and Well-being Awards.
Hosted by NHS Charities Together, NAHN was named the winner of the Arts and Health Award 2024 in recognition of its pioneering National Health Stories project marking 75 years of the NHS.
Led by British actor, playwright and director, Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE, National Health Stories invited NHS staff from 19 NHS trusts across England to tell their stories of working for the organisation through different art forms, including music, poetry, painting and writing.
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This Frieze week proved it’s high time to take AI art seriously — and 9 AI artists to know
Will 2024 mark the year AI art went mainstream? Each year, the Frieze London Artist Award gives its winner the chance to debut an ambitious commission at the fair. This time, the spotlight was on Lawrence Lek. His playable game and hard-hitting video – though at five minutes, too long for the fleeting attention spans of most fairgoers – follows the absurdist story of an AI ‘carebot’ who wrestles with an uncanny kind of human self-doubt.
Ben Luke, host of The Art Newspaper’s podcasts and former Standard critic, describes Lek as “neither a blind evangelist nor a sceptic” of new technologies. It’s fitting, then, that his installation leaves you lingering somewhere between fascination and fear.
