Artists Shed

A private gallery by award winning artist Margaret Hadfield. The ‘Shed’ is a resourceful arts business with quality art materials, art school, gallery, and a music venue space. Margaret’s works are on display with local and ‘Shed Artists’ as well. Margaret paints in most mediums and the gallery features her works on military history, Antarctica and Australian landscapes. Study pieces can be acquired for a bargain.

Artists Shed

3/88 Wollongong Street, Fyshwick ACT 2609, Australia

0418 237 766

artistshed.com.au/

Tue to Sat 9am–5pm,
Sun 10am–4pm.

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Stranger than fiction: Magritte and Cao Fei

In two new exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, René Magritte and Cao Fei speak to each other across cultures and eras about the way that perception can unsettle reality—and the places the real intersects with the surreal.

Sally Gearon

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The undeniable power of Josina Pumani’s Maralinga

Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.

Jessica Alderton

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Speaking volumes: on our love affair with art books

The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.

Jane O'Sullivan

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Trevor Vickers and the abstraction of light

Trevor Vickers reflects on his six-decade career in hard-edged abstraction, the value that Perth’s light offers painters, and how his latest exhibition at Art Collective WA focuses on a series of quieter works.

Steve Dow

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Ecological art can bring us closer to understanding nature. How does this look in the era of climate change?

Two exhibitions in Sydney are showcasing interdisciplinary research on climate change communicated in artistic ways.

Alexandra Crosby

In Pictures

A conversation between past and present

An exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane sheds a new light on Brisbane’s history, presenting a significant historical archive of photography alongside contemporary artists responding to the original source material.

Artists Shed

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