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Swell Festival. On a beach a large sculpture comprising metal triangles and attached blue cords is in the centre of the frame. Behind is the sea and a rock island. People are milling about looking at the sculpture.
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A sculpture festival that’s bursting with pride

The SWELL Sculpture Festival is a place where art and community are inextricably linked.

Photograph of Australian bush with white birds and artwork in landscape.
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$1.2 million boost for public art recognising women

The Victorian Government has committed funds to public art focused on women in Victoria.

Black twisted wave like sculpture suspended from ceiling in gallery setting. Lucy Irvine.
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Exhibition review: Materiality...but not as we know it, CMAG

Thought-provoking exhibition looks at materiality and function.

Gallery with grey walls displaying bright tropical paintings by Gauguin.
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Exhibition review: Gauguin's World, National Gallery of Australia

Gauguin may have lived abroad, but did he ever really leave Paris? This exhibition explains.

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Exhibition focuses on a next generation of Torres Strait Island artists

Curatorial collaboration celebrates diversity of new making and greater exposure at NorthSite Contemporary Arts.

Andrew Rogers, ‘Flora Exemplar 2’, 2020, bronze diptych. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. Bronze sculpture resembling flowers in a natural setting.
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Rogers’ $6.1 million gift to university collection

Sculptor and land artist Andrew Rogers has gifted another 31 contemporary works to Deakin University to provide students access to…

man and woman in gallery exhibiting Egyptian artefacts. Pharaoh.
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Exhibition review: Pharaoh, NGV International

This is an exhibition that demonstrates how we can shift up and still surprise – and how we can show…

woman in hi-vis vest standing inside sculpture. Lindy Lee
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How do you move a 13-tonne sculpture?

Lindy Lee's enormous $14 million sculpture ‘Ouroboros’ makes its way to Canberra with a police escort across three states.

Painting of man with long hair and t-shirt in big brushstrokes by Laura Jones.
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Who are the 2024 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman winners?

Another female artist wins this year’s Archibald Prize, with a great portrait by Laura Jones of author Tim Winton.

Rhodes. Image is a surreal piece of art in a golden frame, a picture of a young woman in a black cloak holding a closed fan in a red gloved hand. Her face is painted blue, yellow and white and there is a perspex or glass box around her head. She is standing in front of a block of flats.
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Exhibition review: Katrina Rhodes and Stefano Ives, Fortyfivedownstairs

Two virtuosos of Australian surrealist art share a gallery in Melbourne’s CBD with captivating results.

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