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The Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial: Artshub review by Gina Fairley
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...
Australian Dobell Drawing Biennial: ‘Infinite’, at NSW Art Gallery. Radio Interview
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...
Dobell Drawing Prize #24. Entries Open
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...
SMH: AI can do many things, but can it replicate these drawings?
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...
The Australian: Hope yet for the lost art of drawing
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...
Sydney Morning Herald. 30 March 2023. ‘Nothing like this has happened to me’: Artist’s shock at prize win
By Nick Galvin One morning eight years ago, Jane Grealy was standing in her backyard looking vaguely over the fence into her neighbour’s lush garden, contemplating what the future might hold. She’d just recovered from a debilitating illness and knew she didn’t want to...
Dobell Drawing Prize #23. Exhibition now open.
‘Whether it be a scrawled map, a line in the sand, the scratch of a burnt stick across a cave wall or a digital record of the movement of a stylus, that simple evidence of an intentional touch is fundamental to what drawing is. This compulsion to leave a mark is a...
Dobell Drawing Prize #22. 26 June to 14 August 2022
The Dobell Drawing Prize is an unparalleled celebration of drawing technique and innovation. This National Art School touring exhibition showcases 43 of the 64 finalists from the 2021 Prize and includes Euan Macleod’s winning work, chosen by guest judge and acclaimed...
ArtsHub: New National Drawing Centre Brings Australia in line with Global Trend
Where better than to punch out the parameters of drawing in our times than an art school? The National Art School takes the lead in establishing a centre for experimentation and engagement. By Gina Fairley, Saturday 7 November 2020 This week, the National Art School...
THE ART NEWSPAPER: Sydney bucks trend for marginalisation of drawing at art schools with new National Centre for Drawing
Opening on 4 November, the centre, which is part of the city's National Art School, is modelled on the the Drawing Centre in New York and London’s Drawing Room By Elizabeth Fortescue, 28 October 2020 The National Art School in Sydney’s inner suburb of Darlinghurst...
Dobell Exhibition Grant recipient announced for 2020
Museum & Galleries of NSW - 12 December 2019. We are pleased to announce Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) as the recipient of the Dobell Exhibition Grant for 2020 for their exhibition Notes from the Field. The Dobell Exhibition Grant, supported by the Sir William...
Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial opens at Orange Regional Gallery
Central Estern Daily: October 10 2019, By Alex Crowe Playback, the third Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial, will open at the Orange Regional Gallery on Friday. The exhibition presents work by eight contemporary Australian artists, exploring history through crossovers...
Professor Chris McAuliffe, Sir William Dobell Chair, Centre for Art History & Art Theory, School of Art & Design
The ANU School of Art & Design is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Chris McAuliffe to the Sir William Dobell Chair in the Centre for Art History and Theory (School of Art & Design). The Chair is supported by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, in memory of the Archibald prizewinning Australian artist. With a track record as an art historian, museum director and curator, Chris will contribute to CAHAT’s teaching and research focus on Art History and Curatorship.
The Australian: Dobell Spirit Lingers in a Different Medium
By Matthew Westwood, Arts Correspondent. The spirit of William Dobell was at large last night when a photographic artist won the prestigious Dobell Prize for Drawing - near the site of a celebrated court case in which Dobell was accused of bending the rules in the...
Dobell Exhibition Grant 2019: Newcastle Art Gallery – Sodeisha: Connected to Australia’
In September 1979 Newcastle Region Art Gallery hosted the exhibition SODEISHA: Avant-Garde Japanese Ceramics featuring 32 members of the Sodeisha group of artists including founding members Kazuo Yagi (1918-1979), Osamu Suzuki (1926-2001) and Hikaru Yamada...
Art Express 2019
The annual ARTEXPRESS exhibition is one of the most dynamic and popular at the Art Gallery NSW. Featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the artmaking component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts 2018, ARTEXPRESS 2019 provides insight...
Media Release: 2019 Dobell Exhibition Grant Recipient
Newcastle Art Gallery - SODEISHA: Connected to Australia In 1981 Newcastle Art Gallery was gifted the largest collection of Japanese Sodeisha ceramics in the southern hemisphere. The Gallery has invited ten contemporary Australian and Japanese ceramic artists to...
Artist Locust Devours All the News – Daily Telegraph
Locust Jones’ news-inspired artwork takes plague proportions in AGNSW Dobell drawing show Blue Mountains artist Locust Jones pictured with one of his artworks at Sydney Olympic Park last year. Picture: supplied THERE are news junkies, and then there’s Locust Jones....
Art Express 2018
Karen Smith (Principal of Wyndham College) and Charles Lloyd Jones from the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation with the winners of the award to a school that’s HSC Visual Arts performance.
National Art School resurrects drawing prize in honour of William Dobell
One of Australia’s most prestigious prizes for drawing is to be revived after it was discontinued six years ago. The National Art School will become the new home of the Dobell Drawing Prize when it is reinstituted from March 2019 during a 10-week ”mini festival” dedicated to the art form.
Press Release. Dobell Drawing Prize to be presented at the NAS from 2019
The National Art School today announced the revival of the Dobell Drawing Prize. The new biennial Prize will be presented at NAS Gallery from March 2019, alongside a new drawing symposium that explores the importance of drawing in all its diversity. The Prize is a...
The Unflinching Gaze
Photo media and the male figure which will be presented at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery from 6 October 2017. Curated by Richard Perram OAM, the Gallery’s director, it will be drawn from Australian and international collections. Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery will be...
Gravity (and Wonder)
Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest 3 September – 27 November 2016 REVIEW By Craig Judd, www.artlink.com.au When I was a kid I spent a lot of time searching out gullies and large stones in the nearby bush. Probably influenced by a confluence of half...
Bossley Park High School. SWDAF Award of Excellence 2016
Recipient of this year's SWDAF Award for Excellence in Visual Arts Teaching at the Art Express exhibition at AGNSW. Bossley Park High School, winners of the Dobell Excellence in Visual Arts Teaching Award, Art Express 2016 Visual Arts teachers at Bossley Park High...
MAG-NET Artist-In-Residence Program
The new MAG-NET Artist-in-Residence Program was a highly successful collaboration between Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney Harbour National Park, Michelle Belgiorno, A.R.T Foundation (Tokyo) and ArtsPeople, and was generously supported by the Sir William Dobell Art...
New Dobell Exhibition Grant supports gravity-defying exhibition
Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest receive the inaugural Dobell Exhibition Grant for the development of Gravity (and Wonder). Curated by Penrith Regional Gallery in collaboration with the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS), Gravity (and Wonder)...
Media Release. Dobell Foundation to Support New Exhibition Program Across Regional NSW
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Launched today, the Dobell Exhibition Grant (DEG) will allow the development of new, curated exhibitions of visual arts in NSW regional galleries. With a generous gift from the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, Museums &...
Bowral High School Visual Arts Faculty Recognised As The Best in The State
The Visual Arts Faculty has been awarded the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation award for excellence in teaching, promoting and engaging young people in Visual Arts education. The Faculty has been recognised as the best in NSW for their outstanding work with Higher...
Drawing Out, the inaugural Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial is now on at the Art Gallery of NSW
John McDonald, SMH 5 December 2014 One cannot travel very far in any discussion of drawing without coming across a famous statement from the great neo-classicist, Jacques-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: "Drawing is the probity of art." "Probity" means both "correctness" and...
Radio Interview concerning the Dobell Drawing Prize Exhibition Tour of NSW and ACT
Recorded live at National Art School inside the exhibition. Interview with Paula Latos-Valier, Art Director of the Foundation. The interviewer is Maisy Stapleton. Broadcast on Thursday 26 September 2013 on Eastside Radio 89.7FM, Sydney.