Bruce Johnson McLean, one of Australia’s leading voices on First Nations art, has been appointed the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain First Nations curatorial fellow for the next Biennale of Sydney. Steve Dow talks with Johnson McLean on his storied history, and what he hopes to achieve in the 2026 Biennale.
Congratulations to Aisha Sherman-Noth, who has won the 2025 Glover Prize for Weeping birches on the avenue. The Tasmanian-based artist wins $80,000 for the painting, which depicts weeping birch and poplar trees along the Brooker Highway into Hobart.
After announcing last week that artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino would represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has made the unprecedented decision to drop the team.
The National Gallery of Victoria has announced the next instalment of the Winter Masterpieces series, coming in June 2025, will be a return to French Impressionism—an exhibition from 2021 that closed as soon as it opened due to the global pandemic.
Melbourne Art Fair has announced its 2025 line up, with 60 galleries and Indigenous art centres slated to feature alongside some major international commissions and public programs.
Lismore Regional Gallery is reopening to the public following extensive closure resulting from the devastating floods in 2022. The redesigned space will host a number of new exhibitions opening this weekend.
Congratulations to Hannah Gartside, who has won the 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize for her work #19, a piece in her ongoing series Bunnies in Love, Lust and Longing, 2024.
Congratulations to Robert Fielding, who has won the 2024 Bowness Photography Prize for Sacred earth/Manta Miil miilpa. The winning work, along with the 73 finalists, are now on display at the Museum of Australian Photography.
The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) has been forced to vacate its Fitzroy home of almost 20 years following the recent withdrawal of funding from both Creative Australia and Creative Victoria.
The winners of the 2024 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards have been announced. Congratulations to Noli Rictor, who has won the Telstra Art Award for his painting Kamanti.
Congratulations to Zoe Grey, who has won the $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize for her work The Shape of Rock, a painting depicting the landscape of her Tasmanian hometown, Marrawah.
GAGPROJECTS, a mainstay of the Adelaide art scene, has announced that the Kent Town space it has operated out of for 32 years will close at the end of August.
