Author: LDFA

We are pleased to announce that artists Angelina Ngal, Cowboy Loy Pwerl and Genevieve Kemarr Loy are finalists in this year’s Blake Prize. First awarded in 1951, the Blake Prize is one of the more prestigious art prizes in Australia. For 55 years it has been awarding a prize for works of art that explore the subject of religious awareness and spirituality. For more information please visit their website here. Artworks by this artist can be seen in our Aboriginal Stockroom.

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art would like to congratulate Terry Yumbulul and Trudy Raggett Kemarr for becoming finalists in this years National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. Works from these artists as well as other exceptional indigenous artists are available from our stockroom here.

Gloria’s Leaf design was selected by Hermes for their 2009 collection, and has been released internationally. The design will feature on Hermes’ desireable silk scarves.
This commission came about as a result of Lauraine Diggins Fine Art exhibiting Gloria’s work at ArtParis 2006 where she caught the eye of artistic director of Hermes, Pierre Alexis Dumas.
Gloria’s works have been acquired by major public institutions and countless private collections both within Australia and internationally. She is regarded as being an intregal part of the history of painting in Utopia; an artist whose originality and diversity exemplifies the evolution, particularly of women’s art, from the eastern region of Central Australia.
Gloria’s Bush Medicine Leaf Dreaming is perhaps her most successful stylistic development. Through the use of abstraction and repetition, she represents the bush leaves collected by women creating a design with a dynamic sense of swirling movement.

 

 

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The art world is mourning the untimely passing of artist Peter Walsh on the 16th January, 2009. Peter died of cancer-related problems in Melbourne, aged only 51.

Peter was a gentle, perceptive and unique figure in contemporary art. After studying at the Wimbledon School of Art in London and the VCA in Melbourne, his first exhibition was held in 1986. He exhibited with Lauraine Diggins Fine Art from 2001 and it was a privilege for us to have exhibited Peter?s work for a number of years, to come to know him as a wonderful human being and to appreciate his intelligence and warm friendly presence.

Peter is survived by his children, Hazel and Alice; his partner, Lisa; his mother, Margaret and his brother, Andrew.

We are sure that all who met Peter were touched by his easy manner and wicked smile, as we were. He will be sadly missed.

We are pleased to announce that Cowboy Loy Pwerl and his daughter Genevieve Kemarr Loy are both finalists in this year’s Albany Art Prize.
The City of Albany Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize open to all Australian artists for a two dimensional painting.
With a first prize of $25 000, the prize attracts entries from artists of excellence from all over Australia. For further information go to the Albany Art Prize website.

Contemporary artist Robert Clinch will be exhibiting at Shepparton Art Gallery from the 14th Febuary until the 15th of April 2009. Clinch?s striking imagery transports the viewer to a fictional but hauntingly real world; telling accessible tales of loneliness, joy, injustice, humour, melancholy and whimsy. For further information click here.

Congratulations to Michael McWilliams on winning the 2008 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize with his work Bandicoot Playground. McWilliams was also a finalist in the 2008 Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize. For McWilliam’s biography and examples of his work, please visit our Artist Biographies page and our stockroom.

We are pleased to announce that Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarrey is among the finalists for the Paddington Art Prize. This prestigeous award is “a $20,000 acquisitive prize for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape.” For further details, visit the Paddington Art Prize Website

We are pleased to announce that Genevieve Kemarr Loy and Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarrey are among the finalists for the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award. The Fisher’s Ghost Festival will be held from the 30th October – 9th November. More information is available here

We are pleased to announce Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray was the winner in the Painting Category at the 2008 Churchie Emerging Art Prize. Genevieve Kemarr Loy was a finalist in the same Prize competition.