The critical significance of Cope’s practice, both to contemporary art and to the broader culture, is undeniable; its conceptual currency in the present climate of reactionary nationalistic sentiment cannot be underestimated.

Joining the illustrious line up of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship is 2019’s winner Jack Lanagan Dunbar, who took the coveted prize for his series Pantheon.

As part of the Venezuelan diaspora who settled in Australia, artist Nadia Hernández tells me she can’t help but respond to the political, social and environmental atrocities being committed in her home country.