In Focus 2025 – Flourish explores artistic growth as a dynamic process, honouring creativity’s evolution, experimentation and grounding. It invites artists from the Redlands Coast to present individually authentic work shaped by place, practice and flourishing as an evolving creative journey.
holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly) is a new solo exhibition from Shari O’Dwyer at The Condensery, Toogoolawah, Queensland, that explores the woven memories between generations of South Sea Islanders in the Australian colony.
For artist Joel Sherwood Spring, working in video offers an entrée, with accessible technologies and immediacy, to his ongoing fields of enquiry about identity and capital, on display at his show Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Tender Comrade, currently on show at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery, creates a new vocabulary of queer kinship by reimagining the relationship between artworks, bodies and space.
Tasmanian artist Helen Wright’s survey exhibition, Shapeshifting at Queen Victoria and Gallery: Art Gallery at Royal Park, chronicles decades of practice across mediums to reveal new meanings.
In Volle au Fond, Melbourne based artist Yvette Coppersmith incorporates multiple mediums—tapestry, painting, jewellery, film and poetry—to reimagine the myth of Circe, a magical female being brought to life in Homer’s classical text, The Odyssey.
The winning painting of this year’s Archibald Packing Room Prize reflected a changing of the guard in the packing room, as well as an evolution of the broader prize, with artists increasingly choosing to paint their fellow artists. The Archibald Prize 2025 currently is on display at Geelong Gallery.
