This year, Tony Costa won the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Lindy Lee. The Sulman prize was won by McLean Edwards with The first girl that knocked on his door and Sylvia Ken was awarded the Wynne for Seven Sisters.
More than 90 Australian and international galleries are taking part in Sydney Contemporary 2019. The competition for attention can be likened to an arena of visual titans, with galleries prominently displaying their biggest and most bankable artists.
Hotel rooms are a weird blend of public and private space—which, according to Spring1883 co-founder Kate Barber, makes them great places for viewing and selling contemporary art.
Kaldor Public Art Projects marks a half-century of civic-minded, boundary defying art.
Now at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, touring exhibition Soft Core explores the fluctuating, mutable qualities of softness through sculpture.
Often perceived as a modest artform compared to, say, the grandiosity of painting, printmaking has been a site of experimentation, a fact highlighted in Lichtenstein to Warhol: The Kenneth Tyler Collection at the National Gallery of Australia.
Adelaide artist Louise Haselton creates sculptures using unexpected materials that land in carefully orchestrated balance.
With a practice spanning four decades, Melbourne-based jeweller Susan Cohn makes both highly wearable and deeply political work.
Through perforations, rubbings, and Vietnamese Braille, Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s 25-year practice gets under the skin—and the surface—of her materials.
In Rain Room, the environment controls us and we control it in an uneasy symbiotic relationship.
Reko Rennie has been awarded the second Artbank + ACMI Commission, with the artist creating a new video work titled What Do We Want.
Turning Points is the third component of the NGV’s focus on China in its current program, showing alongside Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang and A Fairy Tale in Red Times.
The paintings of Betty Kuntiwa Pumani form a part of a larger, living archive on Antaṟa, her mother’s Country. More than maps, they speak to ancestral songlines, place and ceremony.
A presentation of works by Robert Mapplethorpe curated by the British editor Edward Enninful, Enninful x Mapplethorpe, at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, finds resonance in opposites while turning binary thinking on its head.
Auckland-born and raised artist Lisa Reihana is ever the optimist, creating two new works signifying social cohesion to hang outside two Australian arts venues—Ngununggula, and Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks —just as dark divisions seek to undermine the value of migration and Indigenous sovereignty.
An exhibition of newly commissioned works at the National Art School gallery in Sydney brings to light the historic and ongoing ties between Indigenous and Asian-Australian communities.
In the last 25 years, there have been few themes as omnipresent as the environment, especially when we look at Australian art. Join us as we revisit pieces from our archive that track artists’ ongoing fascination with the natural world and its changing landscape.
Spring1883, Melbourne’s interactive and immersive fair returns, celebrating the collision of contemporary art installed amongst 18th century decor of The Hotel Windsor.
