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The Guardian: Dobell prize 2025: Australia’s leading prize for drawing – in pictures

by admin_dobell | Apr 12, 2025 | Dobell Drawing Prize

April 12 2005 | Dobell Drawing Prize The $30,000 biennial Dobell drawing prize is known for pushing the boundaries among Australian artists. Rosemary Lee’s 24-1 – an ‘exploration of the urban landscape and gentrification of the Sydney suburbs of Ashfield and Summer...

SMH: ‘Very shocked’: How a Sydney artist’s odd inspiration won her a major prize

by admin_dobell | Apr 10, 2025 | Dobell Drawing Prize

April 10 2025 | Dobell Drawing Prize. Construction sites are such inescapable part of Sydney life it’s easy to walk past and barely register the activity beyond the scaffolding and temporary fencing – but not for artist Rosemary Lee. For her, building sites are a...
The Australian: Hope yet for the lost art of drawing

The Australian: Hope yet for the lost art of drawing

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...
Sydney Morning Herald. 30 March 2023. ‘Nothing like this has happened to me’: Artist’s shock at prize win

Sydney Morning Herald. 30 March 2023. ‘Nothing like this has happened to me’: Artist’s shock at prize win

by admin_dobell | Apr 3, 2023 | Dobell Drawing Prize

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.

Dobell Drawing Prize #23. Exhibition now open.

by admin_dobell | Apr 3, 2023 | Dobell Drawing Prize

‘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...
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