Brunswick Street Gallery wall view - Fifty Squared Art Prize 2024

Brunswick Street Gallery – Fifty Squared Art Prize 2024

BSG Fifty Squared Art Prize 22 June–5 July I’m pleased to have one smaller work from the Winterbloom series exhibited at this year’s prize, showcasing the work of over 550 artists practicing throughout Australia and beyond. The exhibition collection is expansive, featuring hundreds of artworks encompassing painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, weaving and more.…

2024 CLIP Award Australia

2024 CLIP Landscape Award finalist

Super stoked to be a finalist at 2024 CLIP Award at Perth Centre for Photography. 2024 Contemporary Landscapes in Photography (CLIP) Award, is PCP’s biennial award for contemporary urban, natural, and conceptual landscape photography. The exhibition will open on Friday 12 July 2024 and winners will be announced at the opening event. Judges: the 2024…

In the process of healing Ballarat family photography by Aldona Kmiec Artist installation Ballarat Convent Tamil Family Ballarat

Ballarat photography – Art Awards Finalist

Yay! Ballarat photography on show again! In the Process of Healing exhibition has been chosen for the Contemporary Art Awards as a finalist. In the Process of Healing is an immersive installation of photography, sound and space. Photographed in Ballarat’s old mining suburb of Black Hill, it tells a story of hope and survival of a local refugee…

Balancing Act portrait by Aldona Kmiec

BAF Eureka Art Award & Exhibition

Ballarat Arts Foundation Eureka Art Award 2016 Wed 23 Nov – Sat 24 Dec 2016 Please join me for the announcement of the $2,500 Eureka Art Award and exhibition opening on Thu 24 Nov 2016 @5.30, for 6pm. Winner announced by Anthony Camm, Director, Ararat Regional Art Gallery. Guest speaker, Dr Lisa Anderson, Adjunct Professor, Arts…

Balancing Act pregnant mother Eureka Art Award 2020

Eureka Art Award 2014

Eureka Art Award Winner I am very pleased to announce that I have just won the Ballarat Arts Foundation 2014 Eureka Art Prize for the artwork called “Balancing Act’. The work is a photographic portrait of my Polish friend Magda Kazmierczak. This year the judges were Melissa Griffin (BAF), Gordon Williamson (BAF) and Mark Guirguis (Ballarat surgeon,…

Aldona Kmiec Ballarat Finalist Head On Photography Festival 2014

Head On Portrait Finalist

Head On Finalists 2014, Portrait Category I’m so excited to announce that I am a Portrait FINALIST of Head On Photo Festival 2014! The Opening This Friday 16th of May – Paddington Town Hall. The Exhibition Paddington Reservoir Gardens Gallery 251-255 Oxford St Paddington from the 12 May – 8 June. The show sits alongside the work of National…

2013 CCP Salon Competition Melbourne Centre of Contemporary Photography Aldona Kmiec Photography Ballarat

CCP Leica Salon – Third Drawer Down Most Humorous Image Winner 2013

The Centre for Contemporary Photography CCP Salon 2013 opened last night and my photo ‘iShadow, 2012’ was awarded Third Drawer Down Most Humorous Image prize. This is the first time I took part in CCP Salon. Super happy that a Ballarat photo won something this year! Opening the exhibition, Minister of the Arts Heidi Victoria mentioned Ballarat Foto Biennale a…

Eureka Art Award winner Aldona Kmiec 2013 Post Office Gallery Ballarat

Eureka Art Award 2013

Eureka Art Award Winner I am very pleased to announce that I have just won the Ballarat Arts Foundation 2013 Eureka Art Prize for the portrait of Molebatsi titled ‘Molebatsi in a traditional xhosa outfit’ which I took during pop up studio residency at Backspace Gallery in Ballarat in 2012.