What if you could offer your favourite book character a way out? In this playful and thoughtful exhibition, Catherine Farry creates imagined ‘survival kits’ for literary heroines. Using mixed media, she honours each character’s world while offering them hope, choice, and solidarity.
Blending fiction with compassion, these works open a dialogue between reader and character—inviting us to care, connect, and rewrite the story.
Congratulations to Julie Fragar, who has won the 2025 Archibald Prize for Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene), her portrait of fellow artist and colleague Justene Williams.
From painting rituals to an obsession with flowers, we caught up with Laura Jones to discuss her process and practice, her current solo show at Jan Murphy Gallery, and what it was like to win the Archibald Prize for her painting of Tim Winton.
Pia Murphy leans into curiosity for her latest exhibition at Nicholas Thompson Gallery. Look What I Found is “referring to that experience in childhood of discovering surprising things in nature.” It’s a methodology Murphy uses in her practice, working with the sole intention of honest discovery.
Cats & Dogs, now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria, explores the ways that the relationships we share with our pets are a source of strangeness and intimacy. But for Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, it’s also an exercise in the power of seeing and being seen.
The finalist portraits in the biggest Australian art award of the year have been announced, alongside the winner of The Packing Room Prize: Abdul Abdullah for his portrait of fellow artist Jason Phu.
A new exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery takes us deeper into the life of the often-mythologised artist Frida Kahlo, through her personal photographs, clothing and objects, borrowed from Casa Azul, Kahlo’s house museum in Mexico.
