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Brown’s Look at that tongue, 2024, is a finalist in David Roche Gallery’s inaugural Best in Show 2025: Australian Photographic Dog Prize. When he turned 21, David Roche AM (1930-2013) received a painting from his father by Edmund Havell Jnr. of Mr R. Hanbury’s favourite foxhound, 1844. The work remains in the David Roche collection which boasts an enormous variety of dog related art across paintings, sculpture, pottery, jewellery and textiles. It is fitting then, that this North Adelaide gallery should celebrate the central role that dogs play in our lives with Best in Show 2025, Australia’s only photographic exhibition devoted to dogs. The popular prize attracted over 250 entries from professional and amateur photographers of all ages, with the finalists on show until 25 October 2025.

Since our last issue the 2025 Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition awards have been announced with Phu La winning the $10,000 ORCHARD PIPER Award with his exquisite ceramic and mixed media piece titled Crossing Borders at Master Roll Vietnam. Curated by Malcolm Thomson, the exhibition has once again turned Melbourne’s Toorak Village into a public gallery featuring 97 contemporary sculptural works on display in shop windows of small businesses and side streets around Toorak Road. The exhibition is on until 12 October.

Art Almanac is Australia’s leading monthly guide to “what’s on” in the visual arts: exhibitions, events, workshops, open studios, artist opportunities, art awards and services. Our OCTOBER 2025 issue feature articles, $420K+ in art prizes/funding, 410+ galleries, and 750+ artists, including Julie Brown on our cover.

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