An exhibition 50 years in the making, Auto-Photo: A life in Portraits currently on display at RMIT Gallery, celebrates the life of Alan Adler, one of the oldest and longest-serving photobooth technicians in the world.
Artists communicate across space and time in the expansive inaugural exhibition, 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art at the newly renovated Potter Museum of Art.
A major exhibition charts the ingenuity and creative spirit coming out of the Yirrkala community across time. In collaboration with Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre,Yolŋu Power: the art of Yirrkala is now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.
Under Sammy Hawker’s gentle guidance, whale song takes shape, ocean water becomes collaborator, salt crystals scatter themselves like stars across analogue film, and ashes murmur secrets onto silver nitrate-soaked paper. Through what she terms “facilitated acts of co-creation,” Hawker gives voice to places, materials, and the more-than-human world.
Multidisciplinary artist Tara Marynowsky reveals where she finds inspiration, the best time of day for creating and what we can expect to see in her current solo show Cave at Edwina Corlette Gallery.
Every two years, the Ramsay Art Prize opens to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay foundation, the prize seeks to spotlight contemporary artists at a formative moment in their careers.
Marru translates to “becoming visible” in Danie Mellor’s ancestral Dyirbal language (of Far North Queensland). In his current exhibition Danie Mellor: marru | the unseen visible at Queensland Art Gallery, the title reflects the work’s gentle ruminations on the complexities of the history of colonisation entwined with personal memories.
Five Acts of Love, a new exhibition at ACCA, maps the space in which memory, intimacy and resistance intersect.
Artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino have been recommissioned by Creative Australia as the Artistic Team for the Australia Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale.
Sophie Penkethman-Young dives into the cursed, chaotic and charming depths of the online world to create inquisitive artworks exploring technology, the internet and capitalism with humour.
Step inside Monica Rani Rudhar’s space at Parramatta Artists Studios, where she works across ceramics, sculpture, video, performance, and latterly, public art. Rudhar is working towards her solo exhibition at Martin Browne Contemporary, while reflecting on the value of play, how imitation leads to authenticity, and why she’d be lost without her sketchbook.
Steffie Yee spent many years gathering stories and images of her family’s history in the town of Branxton, NSW where her parents successfully ran a Chinese restaurant. Yee’s solo exhibition Chinese Restaurant Playground, which celebrates playfulness and joy, recently opened at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
In an era of information excess and manipulation, Wang Zhiyuan’s Dictator Training Centre exhibiting at Passage Gallery, reminds us of contemporary art’s potential as an open-ended platform for reflection, dialogue, and shared authorship.
