by admin_dobell | Oct 19, 2024 | Australian Drawing Biennial, In the Media
Would you consider a solar-mechanised piece of charcoal dragged across a marble stone, or four kilometres of string pinned corner-to-corner, a drawing? These are two considerations among a group of 10 artists who expand what drawing can be. You can see their work in...
by admin_dobell | Sep 13, 2024 | Australian Drawing Biennial, In the Media
Anne Ryan, curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW, and curator of Infinite: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2024, joins 2SER breakfast to chat about the 2024 Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial… This year’s theme, ‘Infinite’, features the works of 10...
by admin_dobell | Aug 2, 2024 | Dobell Drawing Prize
The biennial Dobell Drawing Prize is Australia’s leading prize for drawing, an unparalleled celebration of technique, innovation and expanded drawing practices. The $30,000 acquisitive prize is presented by the National Art School in partnership with the Sir William...
by admin_dobell | Jun 2, 2023 | Dobell Drawing Prize
John McDonald, 1 June 2023 There is a painting by Philip Guston called The Line (1978), in which a red, veiny hand descends from the clouds, and draws a line with a stick of charcoal held between two fingers. God is drawing a line and daring us to step over it. Full...
by admin_dobell | May 18, 2023 | Dobell Drawing Prize
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN – 17 May 2023 Drawing is, in the broadest sense and if we include everything from cave painting to designs painted or carved on weapons and tools, a universal practice. Like language itself, which may have evolved around the same time, making...
