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The Unconformity. Image is of performance participants sitting in kayaks on a lake.
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Festival review: The Unconformity, Queenstown

The Unconformity is a festival that interacts with the Queenstown landscape in unexpected ways.

kandinsky. image is the back of a woman in long dark skirt and grey top with bag over her shoulder and a dark ponytail standing to the left of a modernist painting full of squiggles and a large dark sun-like circle in the top left corner.
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Exhibition review: Kandinsky, AGNSW

No Kandinsky painting is held in an Australia public collection, so this largest ever exhibition of the iconic modernist is…

Here and There. Image is of three four-sided mono-coloured images immediately next to each other along a gallery wall. The dark one is the shortest, next to it is a slightly taller yellow one and the tallest orange one is on the far right.
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Exhibition review: David Serisier: Here and There, Orange Regional Gallery

David Serisier's lastest body of work was prompted by a photographic coincidence, but led to a deeply resolved exhibition.

India Mark, ‘Studio self-portrait’, 2023. Winner of the Ashurt Emerging Artist Prize. In the portrait, Mark looks candidly at the viewer. Wearing a collared black shirt, she appears to be painting her own portrait. She stands in front of a neon green canvas which contrasts her figure.
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The power of portraiture and human connection

The Lester Prize encourages submissions to explore the depths and reaches of identity expressed through portraiture.

Melanie Hava. Image is a long painting stretching round three black walls. Painting is of colourful tropical Far North Queensland rainforest.
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Exhibition review: Melanie Hava: Bugan Mungan, Cairns Art Gallery

A must-see nine-metre long painting by one of Tropical North Queensland’s celebrated artists.

Hermannsburg. landscape painting with text over it saying '20 year waiting list'
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Hermannsburg School seen in a new light

From the so-called 'chocolate box' painting, which led to an appreciation of Aboriginal art, to a dynamic contemporary art style…

Tarnanthi. Image is gallery space full of colourful Namatjira paintings and a full-size sculpture of a First Peoples bearded man in a white cowboy hat.
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Exhibition review: Vincent Namatjira: Australia in Colour, Art Gallery of South Australia

Namatjira's paintings examine the politics of history, power and leadership from a contemporary Aboriginal perspective.

Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters (c. 1594). Artist unknown. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris. Public domain.
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Breasts in art: a tender celebration

Revered, adored, feared – breasts are rarely just another body part in art. For Breast Cancer Awareness Month we take…

Installation view of Wurrdha Marra on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 12 October 2023. Photo: Tom Ross.
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First Nations display renews in vision and scope

Wurrdha Marra at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is an ever-evolving space to create new encounters with First Nations…

Marawili. Bark paintings hanging in gallery space
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Vale Aboriginal artists and Elders, Mrs Marawili and Mrs Timbery

Two innovators, who changed the landscape of contemporary Aboriginal art, have died.

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