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...
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...
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...
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...
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...