Sid Pattni News Today

International book prize now open, winners receive $100,000 thanks to Arts Impact WA, finalists of emerging artist award, and more!

Financial barriers removed for National Portrait Gallery prizes, plus winners of Design Fringe, dual champions of poetry slam and more!

West Perth artist Sid Pattni has been awarded the Kennedy Prize for his intricate and harrowing depiction of musician, artist and human rights activist Mostafa ‘Moz’ Azimitabar. 

SA arts & culture news in brief: Art Gallery extends its opening hours for the final days of box-office hit Frida & Diego, a new fellowship program aims to nurture local authors, entries open for 2024 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, and award-winning visual artworks now on show in two exhibitions.

Furniture Design Award launches open call, plus winners of small sculpture and portrait prizes, and literary shortlists.

Backstage is a dangerous place to e for the cast and crew of Nothing On.

Abbie Chatfield has hit back at online commenters who think she looks like a hooker. 

A Perth artist has painted a beautiful portrait of a reality TV sensation in an attempt to capture the star’s ‘vulnerability’.

Sid Pattni, who was born in London and spent some of his childhood in Kenya, sat with each of the refugees he painted and spent hours recording interviews about what brought them to Australia.

Share Ari, who hails from Sydneys Eastern Suburbs, then took a swipe at the winner of last years season of Big Brother: Chad Hurst, a male model whose father tragically died four years ago. Describing Chad as a charity case, the reality TV villain declared: Chad won last year because he had a sob story and a dead dad. This year Australia should reward the best game player, not who is the poorest. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth: I grew up playing tennis and skiing overseas, my parents ga...