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The Torch at Victorian First People’s Art and Design Fair — Robby Wirramanda, Walpa # 5, 2023, acrylic on linen, 167 x 208 cm. Courtesy the artist.

The Torch Gallery

The Torch at Victorian First People’s Art and Design Fair

The Torch is a First Nations-led arts organisation providing art, cultural and arts industry support for First Nations people who have been incarcerated. In 2025, The Torch will participate in the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair, featuring artists Jeffrey Jackson (Mutti Mutti people), Robby Wirramanda (Wergaia/Wotjobaluk peoples) and Alfred Carter (Gunaikurnai people).

The event aims to shine a light on the diverse and rich creative practices and culture of First Peoples throughout Victoria, enabling artists and designers to share their art and culture, expand their business practices, platform new ideas and bold new works, and strengthen the First Peoples creative industries.

Showing at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 10am–5pm.

20 February—23 February

The Torch Gallery

146 Elgin Street, Carlton VIC, Australia

thetorch.org/FD24

Carol Jerrems’ maternal inheritances

Carol Jerrems’ intimate and revealing portraits of women, now showing at the National Portrait Gallery, are a touchstone for a generation of writers and photographers. For Josephine Mead, they also galvanise the power—and limits—of feminist legacy five decades on.

Josephine Mead

Can art make the world a better place?

When times are hard, we often turn to art to remind ourselves that beauty and hope persist. An exhibition at Murray Art Museum Albury brings together nine artists from varied disciplines to examine how art can be used as an agent for good.

Briony Downes

Sustaining culture with Gillian Kayrooz

To coincide with the presentation of the 3rd Bankstown Biennale: Same Same/Different, Gillian Kayrooz spoke to Karina Dias Pires about how food can express the complexities of culture and difference—and spark unlikely connections across time and place.

Karina Dias Pires

Oslo Davis reimagines art terms

In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.

Oslo Davis

Jonathan Jones on Country and kinship

bagan bariwariganyan: echoes of country, curated by Jonathan Jones and now showing at Bundanon, highlights a long history of Indigenous art on the New South Wales south coast, with works and installations from Jones, Aunty Julie Freeman, Aunty Cheryl Davison, and Mickey of Ulladulla.

Steve Dow

Falling Better with Patrick Pound

For Patrick Pound, whose new installation The Museum of Falling is on show now at the City Gallery, the arrangement of objects and images has long blurred the line between fact and fiction, jolting our perception in surprising and unusual ways.

Peter Hill