John Fries Award in Sydney, Australia | Organisation
John Fries Award
Locality: Sydney, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9394 7600
Address: Level 12, 66 Goulburn Street 2000 Sydney, NSW, Australia
Website: http://johnfriesaward.com
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25.01.2022 A depiction of a handwritten note from Darcey Bella Arnold's suite of paintings, My Mother's Labour. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist Darcey Bella Arnold, Ill know my song well before I start singing (2018). Acrylic and digital print on canvas board, 1500 x 2500 mm. Image: Christo Crocker.
25.01.2022 2020 FINALIST: DARCEY BELLA ARNOLD Introducing Darcey Bella Arnold, whose practice has taken her from Melbourne to London to Los Angeles! Take a look at the paintings on her finalist profile, available for viewing now on our website. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist
25.01.2022 'Wrapped' NBN nodes have created an Indigenous artist street walk throughout Sydney's inner west. We've mapped where you can see them. #respectcreators #licenceartwork #streetartmap
21.01.2022 Daniel Jenatsch's enigmatic video-operatic presentation. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist Daniel Jenatsch, A-97 (2016). Videographic opera. Composer and librettist: Daniel Jenatsch. Cast: Debra Batton, Sarah Byrne, Atlanta Eke, Alan Nguyen and Autumn Royal. Music performed by The Letter String Quartet and Daniel Jenatsch. Videography by Alex Cuffe, 76 minutes.
20.01.2022 Darcey Bella Arnold exploring the parallel between artistic production and the creation and upkeep of the home. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist Darcey Bella Arnold, Upholstery painting 1 (2018). Upholstery fabric and gesso on board, 1200 x 900 mm. Image: Christo Crocker.
19.01.2022 Our 2nd ever Visual Artist Fellowship awarded to Danielle Freakley from WA. #respectcreators
19.01.2022 A painting by Ryan Presley that borrows religious iconography to explore Indigenous experiences. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist Ryan Presley, Crown Land (to the ends of the earth) (2016). Synthetic polymer paint and gold leaf on Hoop pine panel, 53.5 x 42 x 2cm.
18.01.2022 Are you an artist or writer who has not been paid a license fee for your work where it was due? You may be eligible to receive a royalty from Copyright Agency ...for instances where you have not been paid a license fee for your work and should have. We encourage our members who are eligible to apply! Applications close 18 October. #writersroyalty #imageroyalty Eligibility guidelines and more information can be found here: https://www.copyright.com.au/apply-for-the-image-royalty-c/
18.01.2022 Thank you for supporting the John Fries Award in 2019! We hope you have a restful break so you can start the new year feeling inspired. See you in 2020! #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart Wilma Tabacco, Harlequinade, 1998, oil on canvas, Artbank Collection. Wilma Tabacco/Copyright Agency, 2019.
18.01.2022 2020 FINALIST: RYAN PRESLEY Meet Dr Ryan Presley, born to Marri Ngarr and Scandinavian parents and with work in public collections around Australia. Check out some of his pieces on his finalist profile, available for viewing now on our website. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist
18.01.2022 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED We are thrilled to introduce the finalists for the John Fries Award 2020! These seven talented early career artists will exhibit at UNSW Art & Design from 25 September 21 November 2020. Read the full announcement on our website and join us in congratulating Darcey Bella Arnold, Daniel Jenatsch, Sara Morawetz, Ryan Presley, JD Reforma, Melanie Jame Wolf and Shevaun Wright! #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #announcement
18.01.2022 John Fries Award 2019 finalist Elena Papanikolakis, Ellipsis, 2019. Synthetic polymer paint, pencil, found images, pigment inkjet prints on paper, 45 x 45 cm (each). Photography by Jessica Maurer.
17.01.2022 2020 FINALIST: SHEVAUN WRIGHT Introducing Shevaun Wright, who has practised as a commercial lawyer in Australia and now lives and works in Los Angeles. See how she relates the practices of art and law on her finalist profile, available for viewing now on our website. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist
16.01.2022 The days are flying by and we're already two weeks out from the end of our call for entries! Have you left yourself enough time to finish your application? Don't leave it until the last minute head to the link in our bio and submit your entry for the John Fries Award 2020 today! #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #nzart #callforentries
16.01.2022 ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is seeking proposals for a new series of digital works, with three artists or collabs to receive $8k each. Open to all backgrounds, career levels and practices apply before 5pm on Friday 1 May! #accamelbourne #artstartsatacca #accaopen http://ow.ly/nUJk50zfDUW
15.01.2022 Calling all artists & scientists who are interested in interdisciplinary creative collaboration with scientists - apply now for ANAT's prestigious Synapse Resid...ency program, where Australian science organisations host artists-in-residence. National Association for the Visual Arts #CulturalFund http://www.anat.org.au/apply/ See more
14.01.2022 With everything that's happened this year, we feel it's important to provide a safe and inclusive platform for artists and audiences to engage with one another. That's why we've decided to postpone this year's John Fries Award exhibition until early next year. Please join us in March 2021 so we can give the winner and finalists the celebration they so rightly deserve! Read more: http://ow.ly/WTj550BtdEv #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #exhibition #contemporaryart #australianart
13.01.2022 Ryan Presley's currency highlighting the history of Indigenous dispossession. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist Ryan Presley, Blood Money Infinite Dollar Note Dundalli Commemorative (2017). Watercolour on arches paper, 162.5 x 187.5 x 4.5cm.
13.01.2022 What do we want the arts and cultural industries to look like in 2030, and how do we get there? Join the @AusCouncilArts' sector consultation process to re-imagine the future for artists, cultural practitioners and organisations. Town halls are next week. http://ow.ly/fiS450Bwh1o
12.01.2022 Sara Morawetz traversing the length of the Paris meridian (Dunkerque to Barcelona) to derive a new measure of length from physical action. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist Sara Morawetz, étalon (2018). 112-day / 2,100 km durational performance, online platform and (upcoming) installation, publication and metre bar.
12.01.2022 Simultaneous responses from Sara Morawetz's 18-hour endurance event watching anthology series Black Mirror. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist Sara Morawetz, Marathon (Black Mirror) (2018). 18 hour 9 minute action for video (presented as 90 minute single channel video).
12.01.2022 2020 FINALIST: SARA MORAWETZ Introducing Sara Morawetz, currently living and working in Brooklyn and counting NASA among her recent collaborators! Read about her scientific interests on her finalist profile, available for viewing now on our website. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist
11.01.2022 Melanie Jame Wolf's reimagining of Pablo Picasso's costume design sketch for the Ballets Russes. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist Melanie Jame Wolf, Parade : Parade (2019). 2 channel HD video, 16:9, colour, sound, 3 minutes 45 seconds.
10.01.2022 2020 FINALIST: JD REFORMA Introducing JD Reforma, a 2020 City of Sydney Live/Work Space Artist and a 2019/20 Carriageworks Resident Artist! Learn about his recent and upcoming projects on his finalist profile, available for viewing now on our website. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist
10.01.2022 JD Reforma exploring how American corporate ideology has become one of the most valuable and volatile exports around. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist JD Reforma, Coconut Republic (2017). Single-channel video with sound, 8 minutes 32 seconds, edited by Kate Blackmore; site-specific paint installation; custom-made textiles; custom-printed vinyl text. Installation view at Firstdraft, Sydney. Image: Zan Wimberley.
08.01.2022 An installation by Shevaun Wright, in which a legal document is annotated with notes about a violent sexual assault. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist Shevaun Wright, The Rape Contract (2016). 14 cardboard mounted pieces of paper in wooden frames (page 1), 10.6 x 14 inches.
08.01.2022 There's only one more week to apply for the John Fries Award 2020! What sort of art will we see in our eleventh year? We can hardly wait and, when it comes to entering, neither should you. Get those applications in while you still can! #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #nzart #callforentries
08.01.2022 ART:VALUE:COMMUNITY The fourth and final talk in the Copyright Agency series this Friday 13 September at Sydney Contemporary! Come along at 4.30pm to hear David Capra and Teena the dachshund in conversation with Anastasia Klose. They'll discuss what it means to stop being an artist, as well as how artistic skills can transfer to broader community work. More info and RSVPs at: http://ow.ly/hYHX50w3L2g Talk Contemporary is presented by the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund. by Anna Kucera: David Capra, Teenas Bathtime (2015), commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia for the Jackson Bella Room. #sydneycontemporary #copyrightagency #culturalfund #contemporaryart #artisttalk #artist #art
07.01.2022 This is it, folks: your last chance to enter next year's John Fries Award. Applications close in five short hours, so there's no more time to lose. Make sure you submit your entry before 5pm AEST TODAY you've gotta be in it to win it! Good luck! #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #nzart #callforentries
05.01.2022 Shevaun Wright pushing the boundaries between art and law with a timely rebuttal of corrupt academic systems. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist Shevaun Wright, Class Action (2019). Installation of paper, cardboard, wooden frames, projection and aluminium, dimensions variable.
05.01.2022 A video still from Melanie Jame Wolf taking aim at the three most repeated words in pop music. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist Melanie Jame Wolf, Oh Yeah Tonight (2019). 4 channel 4K video, colour, sound, 16:9, 14 minutes + performance activation. Commissioned by Carriageworks for The National 2019: New Australian Art in partnership with Artbank.
04.01.2022 Betty Muffler, who works out of Iwantja Arts in Indulkana community (APY Lands, South Australia), was a 2018 #johnfriesaward finalist with Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country). Amazing to see it now on the cover of Vogue Australia! #indigenousart http://ow.ly/GWyg50BnFtq
04.01.2022 Congrats to Amala Groom for her 2020 Wyndham Art Prize win! "As Aboriginal peoples we are a collective, and Copywrong is all about the need for our arts and cultural practice to be protected under legislation against infringements." #fakeartharmsculture http://ow.ly/4bzP50zAjDu
02.01.2022 A video still from Daniel Jenatsch's satirical recreation of the 1983 Sheraton Hotel incident. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist Daniel Jenatsch, The Sheraton Hotel Incident (2018). Two channel, high definition digital video, 5.1 surround sound, 21 minutes.
02.01.2022 2020 FINALIST: MELANIE JAME WOLF Meet Melanie Jame Wolf, who splits her time between Melbourne and Berlin and has a decade-long background in contemporary performance. Get a taste of her choreographic practice on her finalist profile, available for viewing now on our website. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist
02.01.2022 2020 FINALIST: DANIEL JENATSCH Meet Daniel Jenatsch, a Melbourne-based artist concerned with subjectivity and the construction of social and mental ecologies. See his interdisciplinary works on his finalist profile, available for viewing now on our website. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist
02.01.2022 An installation by JD Reforma, consisting of images from a pop star's Instagram account. #johnfriesaward #art #artist #artwork #artprize #contemporaryart #australianart #finalist JD Reforma, Why should I be sad? (2019). Site-specific installation of 275 motivational images sourced from the Instagram account of Britney Spears, printed on adhesive vinyl. Installation view at Firstdraft, Sydney. Image: Zan Wimberley.
02.01.2022 2014 #johnfriesaward finalist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran was recently profiled in MutualArt! Learn about his ceramics practice and take a deep dive into his recently-concluded solo exhibition, 'False Gods': https://www.mutualart.com//Physicality-as/01B458A5B2029C73
