See the winners and finalists in the world’s richest art prizes: Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize including works by school students. Brisbane-based artist Michael Zavros won the $150,000 portrait prize and Sydney's Dean Sewell won the Open Section of the photographic prize.
Award-winning Australian writer Kate Grenville will deliver the third David Scott Mitchell Memorial Lecture in the magnificent Mitchell Library Reading Room on Friday 10 September. This special free event is part of the Mitchell Library’s centenary celebrations.
More than 170 years after Aboriginal bark canoes last appeared on Sydney Harbour, a traditionally-built replica ‘nawi’ recently arrived at the Library for the upcoming exhibition, Mari Nawi: Aboriginal Odysseys 1790 -1850, opening on 20 September.
You can read current newspapers from over 80 countries with the Library's new online resource, Library PressDisplay, now available in our reading rooms or from home (for NSW clients only with a readers card). The Guardian, the Vancouver Sun or the Kathmandu Post are just a few of the titles on offer, as well as many interstate Australian newspapers.
Brisbane-based artist Michael Zavros took out the $150,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for a painting of his daughter Phoebe, 5, playing dead. For the second consecutive year, Dean Sewell has won the $80,000 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (Open Section), for his work titled Cockatoo Is. Ferry.
Caption: Michael Zavros and his daughter Phoebe with the winning portrait, Phoebe is dead/McQueen
