Melbourne-based artist Linda Tegg has joined forces with Baracco+Wright Architects as creative directors for the Australian pavilion in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. The project, titled Repair, features thousands of native Australian grasses. Tracey Clement spoke with the artist while she was in Venice preparing for the grand opening.
A group exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art examines the divide between architectural spaces of global power, and the most precarious of structures.
The annual Hatched National Graduate Show showcases works by talented recent art school graduates from around the country.
Sydney-based artist Tina Havelock Stevens has won the 65th Blake Prize for her performance video work, Giant Rock, 2017.
If showing in an international biennale is a dream job for most young artists, then Nicole Wong, a recent graduate from the UK’s Nottingham University, has already ticked that box.
As the title indicates, Embellish concentrates on the artist’s love of textiles and dressing up, and the show includes both her paintings and drawings of people in elaborate outfits as well as some actual costumes.
The second Mordant Family VR commission has been awarded to Joan Ross who will realise an ambitious project in the style of a video game for ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image).
NSW Minister for the Arts Don Harwin has announced that Dr Michael Brand has been reappointed as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW).
Piccinini’s work is inspired by research into genetic technologies, from gene splicing and IVF in the 1990s, through to recent advancements in genetic coding.
French artists Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni speculate on the future of us, and the solar system, in a two part special at Mona.
Stieg Persson’s practice has dealt with a multiplicity of themes over the decades. His survey show reveals this polyphony, steadied by art history.
This year the prize went to Yvette Coppersmith for her Self-portrait, after George Lambert.
Positioned on the edge of Sydney Harbour/Warrane, Ancient Feelings, a sculpture by British artist Thomas J Price, launches the Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission, a three-year series of public artworks presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Georgie Mattingley’s exhibition Project Pine Gap explores the intelligence site Pine Gap, co-owned by the Australian Federal Government and the United States, questioning art’s capabilities and function within such institutions.
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2025 finalist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello has spent decades crafting an art practice that weaves together memory, heritage and form.
In her solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Raquel Caballero imagines L Frank Baum’s wonderful world of Oz in full, glittering technicolour.
In the paintings of Yugambeh poet and artist Lionel Fogarty, dynamic words spill across the canvas and suggest a new way of reading, writing and approaching poetry in his new solo show, Burraloupoo at Darren Knight Gallery in Sydney.
New South Wales-based artist Sophie Cape, has won the Hadley’s Art Prize for 2025. The winning piece, alongside the 28 finalists, will be on display at Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart until 21 September.
