Next month’s budget will provide $535.3 million extra over four years for nine major cultural and historical institutions.
The art world is an enterprise famously built on personal networks—but, as Sophia Cai writes, that doesn’t mean your best friends should also be your curators, collectors, profilers, show essayists, reviewers, installers and co-exhibiters.
Sophie Lampert’s soft, sculptural works explore the lives and atypical vocations of women throughout history, and are on display at Orange Regional Gallery.
Leyla Stevens is an Australian–Balinese artist who works with photography and moving image. Having won the 66th Blake Prize in 2021, her art focuses on little-known histories. Ahead of exhibiting in the TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Stevens talks about creating from history.
Through evocative tableau photographs, Yuki Kihara, a Pasifika and Fa’afafine (Sāmoa’s ‘third gender’) artist from Aotearoa, is dismantling gender roles and ‘returning the gaze’ to Pacific Islanders.
Known for his photographic explorations of history, culture, and family, Michael Cook’s latest images showing at Jan Murphy Gallery tell the story of a travelling family—and how they begin to question everything around them.
Mel O’Callaghan’s art delves into one of our most fundamental questions.
Melbourne Now has arrived. Featuring over 200 Victorian artists, it’s a staggering, landmark celebration of local art at NGV Australia. Ahead of the show’s opening, we asked five artists to talk through their exhibiting work.
Sarah crowEST is particularly known for her “strap-on paintings”—large, wearable objects on stretched cloth that can be exhibited or worn. Ahead of her inclusion in Melbourne Now and her solo at LON Gallery, we caught crowEST in the final days of her residency at Billilla Mansion in Melbourne, where she talks through the importance of sustainability.
In 1966, American pop artist Robert Indiana created Love, an iconic image in which the word “love” appears in red letters on a blue and green background. Since then, it’s been reproduced ad nauseam in painting, print and sculpture. Enter Melbourne-based artist Clare Longley, who repositions such romanticised imagery from a queer perspective.
Porcelain and sound waves do not immediately come to mind when thinking about textiles, yet these are the materials some artists are using to produce their textile-based work. Casting a wide net for Pliable Planes at Ballarat Art Gallery, co-curators Karen Hall and Catherine Woolley specifically looked for artists whose practice expanded the creative parameters of contemporary textiles.
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 its 18th year, the National Photographic Portrait Prize celebrates photographic portraiture from emerging and established artists, highlighting what it means to be Australian, through photographs of its people.
Rigg Design Prize has announced its winner for 2025, in a celebration of early and established designers, the innovative works are on display at The Ian Potter Centre.
Language folds into form in the poetic yet monumental light sculptures of Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans, whose solo exhibition … in light of the visible is at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
