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Artz Blitz 2025

This fun competition is a race against the clock: you’ll have 24 hours to make and submit a creative work based on a secret theme. Entries are open to all ages and skill levels, with fantastic prizes up for grabs across categories including visual art, craft and writing. Plus, your work will be judged by a panel of arts industry professionals, with winners announced at a vibrant awards ceremony and exhibition opening event.

Submit visual art, poetry or creative writing for a chance to win great prizes. Artz Blitz is back for 2025!

Keep an eye on our website and socials to spy this year’s theme. Register at kingstonarts.com.au/ ArtzBlitz2025 Theme reveal: Friday 14 February Artwork drop off: Saturday 15 February, 12noon–5pm. Award ceremony and exhibition opening: Thursday 6 March.

7 March—19 April

Kingston Arts

979 Nepean Highway Moorabbin VIC 3189

kingstonarts.com.au

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Creating Culture: introducing the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair

The Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair debuts in partnership with the Melbourne Art Fair this weekend, offering a special preview of new and recent artworks from 37 Koorie artists and designers.

Maya Hodge

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Marikit Santiago’s divine interventions

In her audacious new exhibition, the Filipina Australian artist Marikit Santiago skewers the myths of the western canon and give pleasure and power—as experienced by women of colour—an arresting new form.

Steve Dow

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Laure Prouvost meets the real with the ludicrous

French-born/Belgium-based Laure Prouvost animates her first major Australian survey with her hallmark absurdism. ‘Oui Move In You’ is a touring exhibition, and is now showing at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.

Josephine Mead

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A land outside time: on Dane Mitchell’s The Imponderables

For Dane Mitchell, Slvalbard—a mysterious archipelago north of the Arctic circle—gives the tensions that shape our ecological moment a new and intriguing form.

Louise Martin-Chew

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Shedding light with Roberta Joy Rich

For La Trobe University’s Biannual Façade Commission, artist Roberta Joy Rich brings the dark corners of archival material into the light. On the glass frontage of the La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo, Rich has created a work using sound, image and text to explore the South African diaspora.

Briony Downes

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Yona Lee’s object lessons

For the Auckland-based artist Yona Lee, who has a new commission at the Melbourne Art Fair, function is a source of formal possibility and ordinary material moulds space in extraordinary ways.

Kingston Arts

Artz Blitz 2025

7 March—19 April

Kingston Arts

Suggested Reading

Creating Culture: introducing the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair

Maya Hodge

Marikit Santiago’s divine interventions

Steve Dow

Laure Prouvost meets the real with the ludicrous

Josephine Mead

A land outside time: on Dane Mitchell’s The Imponderables

Louise Martin-Chew

Shedding light with Roberta Joy Rich

Briony Downes

Yona Lee’s object lessons

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

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Kingston Arts

Artz Blitz 2025

7 March—19 April

Kingston Arts

Suggested Reading

Creating Culture: introducing the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair

Maya Hodge

Marikit Santiago’s divine interventions

Steve Dow

Laure Prouvost meets the real with the ludicrous

Josephine Mead

A land outside time: on Dane Mitchell’s The Imponderables

Louise Martin-Chew

Shedding light with Roberta Joy Rich

Briony Downes

Yona Lee’s object lessons

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

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