Batemans Bay is a town on the South Coast region of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Batemans Bay is administered by the Eurobodalla Shire council and the NSW Aboriginal Land Council. The town is situated on land traditionally occupied by the Walbunja people from the Yuin nation, on the shores of an estuary formed where the Clyde River meets the southern Pacific Ocean.
The Bega Valley Shire is a local government area located adjacent to the south-eastern coastline of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire was formed in 1981 with the amalgamation of the Municipality of Bega, Imlay Shire and Mumbulla Shire, with its name deriving from the town of Bega. The shire is also known as the Sapphire Coast for tourism and marketing purposes. During the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, the area was devastated by fire, with 448 houses being destroyed by fire and approximately 365,000 hectares burned, which is 58% of the Shire's total land mass.
The Dobell Drawing Prize is a biennial drawing prize and exhibition, held by the National Art School in association with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation.The prize is an open call to all artists and aims to explore the enduring importance of drawing and the breadth and dynamism of contemporary approaches to drawing.
The Fleurieu Art Prize is a non-acquisitive award, open to Australian visual artists aged 18 years and older. The Prize encompasses any two- or three-dimensional artwork submissions that follow an annual thematic concept and includes a monetary gift and significant exposure for the artists and their works. Exhibitions for the Prize are held in various South Australian locations, including McLaren Vale and Goolwa, garnering attention and merit from tourists, art appreciators, and critics alike at places such as; Stump Hill Gallery, Fleurieu Visitors Information Centre, the Fleurieu Art House and the Hardy's Tintara Sculpture Park.
Yarra Plenty Regional Library (YPRL) provides a public library service to the local government municipalities of the City of Banyule, Shire of Nillumbik and City of Whittlesea in the northeast of Melbourne Australia and located on the lands of the Woiworung. It is an independent legal entity with an executive management team which is responsible for day-to-day operations of the organisation. It is managed by the Yarra Plenty Regional Library Board made of two representatives (councillors) of the three municipalities that constitute the service. Its role is to set the policy and direction for the regional library service. The library service covers an area of 988.4 km² including metropolitan, urban fringe and rural populations. The organisation is administered from its Library Support Services (LSS) located at Daniher Drive, Sth Morang.YPRL also provides computer services to Murrindindi Library Service, including full access to the library's database.
Hanna Kay is an Australian artist.
The Gippsland Art Gallery, formerly Sale Regional Art Centre, is a Victorian Regional Public Gallery based in Sale, 220 km (140 mi) east of Melbourne. The gallery is operated by the Shire of Wellington, and has a focus on the natural environment and artists based in Gippsland.
Bernard Ollis is an Australian artist and painter who lives and works in Sydney and Paris. Ollis is the former director of the National Art School, Sydney.
Hilda Rix Nicholas was an Australian artist. Born in the Victorian city of Ballarat, she studied under a leading Australian Impressionist, Frederick McCubbin, at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1902 to 1905 and was an early member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. Following the death of her father in 1907, Rix, her only sibling Elsie and her mother travelled to Europe where she undertook further study, first in London and then Paris. Her teachers during the period included John Hassall, Richard Emil Miller and Théophile Steinlen.
Ararat Gallery TAMA is a public art gallery in the regional Victorian city of Ararat. Ararat Gallery TAMA is at the intersection of Vincent Street and the Western Highway, Ararat, in the historic late-Victorian Town Hall building. The permanent collection specialises in textile fibre art. The gallery is a member of the Public Galleries Association of Victoria.
Ruth Maddison is an Australian photographer born in 1945. She started photography in the 1970s and continues to make contributions to the Australian visual arts community.
The Bega Valley Arts and Crafts Society is a body created for and run by visual arts practitioners based in the Bega Valley Shire. The body was originally called the Bega Valley Fine Arts and Crafts Society when it was founded in 1946 by three local artists, Jack Roy Kirkland, Silby McNeil, Charles Deacon and a friend of the society, founder of the Bega District News, WB 'Curly' Annabel.
New England Regional Art Museum
The Muswellbrook Art Prize is an acquisitive art competition hosted by the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre in the Muswellbrook Shire, New South Wales. It was first held in 1958, at that time as the Festival of the Valley Art Prize, as an annual event until the establishment of the Regional Arts Centre as a purpose-built standalone complex in 1999.
Sally Robinson is an English-born Australian artist. She has had a long career as a portrait artist and designer, painter and printmaker, teacher and lecturer. Her work is represented in private and public collections around Australia.
Angela Cavalieri is an Australian printmaker.
Hoda Afshar is an Iranian documentary photographer who is based in Melbourne. She is known for her 2018 prize-winning portrait of Kurdish-Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani, who suffered a long imprisonment in the Manus Island detention centre run by the Australian Government. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions and is held in many permanent collections across Australia.
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (CPAC), commonly referred to as Casula Powerhouse, is a multi-disciplinary arts centre in Casula, a south-western outer suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Before being renovated and converted into an arts centre, the building was known as Liverpool Powerhouse. Since 2016 CPAC has hosted the Blake Prizes, comprising two art prizes and a residency, as well as the Blake Poetry Prize.
Anna Glynn is an Australian visual artist whose diverse work spans the mediums of painting, drawing, installation, moving image, sound and sculpture. Her works have been shown in multiple exhibitions and are represented in the collections of numerous public galleries. In 2021 her moving image works were acquired by the National Museum of Australia, Canberra and the Australian Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra.
Sue Pedley is an Australian multi-media artist known for site-specific artworks in Australia and overseas. She has participated in residencies including the Bundanon Trust Creative Research Residency in 2016, the Tokyo Wonder Site in 2012, and the 2008 International Sculpture Symposium, Vietnam. Pedley works solo and in collaboration with other artists.
