Step into a world of creativity, colour and celebration at the NGV’s 2025 children’s summer exhibition! Let’s Party! Fashion for Kids – Designed by Danielle Brustman is inspired by dancing, parties and the sparkle of decorations. Dressing up is a fun and powerful way for kids to express themselves, and in this creative setting, young visitors can explore party- perfect outfits and join in exciting, party-themed activities.
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.
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.
Marking the Newcastle Art Galleries reopening with a large-scale commission for the windows on Darby Street, Maggie Hensel-Brown’s new commission is on display from 26 September.
In its 24th year, Australia’s most prestigious award for small-scale sculpture has announced its winners for 2025, with the 54 finalists now on display at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
