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Opportunities and awards

New international funding opportunities, plus winner of the 2023 Griffin Award for playwriting and finalists of Bowness Photography Prize, and…

Community members making craft at a table
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Building community: guide to socially-engaged arts projects

For a community engaged project to be successful, as well as culturally safe, practitioners require knowledge. This resource will assist.

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Opinions & Analysis

Is the myth of 'sameness' unwarranted across the emerging artist landscape?

When it comes to the emerging artist landscape in Australia, how accurate is a perception of "sameness" or are we…

a colourful graphic style mural of a gorilla and a bearded person in nature, displayed as a giant billboard next to a Coca Cola billboard advertisement.
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How do artists work with global brands?

Commercial brands are forever looking for creatives to add cachet to their wares. So, what’s it like to strike deals…

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Festival review: Illuminate Adelaide, from Unsound to Oneohtrix Point Never

Adelaide’s winter festival offers a rich array of experiences, from the sensory overload of Unsound Adelaide to a night-time ramble…

Performance video projected onto a red brick wall at the side of the street with shops. A performer in an otherworldly silver and fluid costume moving and interacting around a highly and vividly decorated rotating clothes line, filled with vibrant fabrics in a suburban Australian home, with a green garden and wooden fence at the dusk of sunset.
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Event review: Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne

Bringing contemporary projection works to fresh eyes.

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Exhibition review: I am the People, White Rabbit Gallery

An edgy and creative exhibition hang leads viewers on a journey of considering contemporary Chinese identity.

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Exhibition review: KANANGOOR/Shimmer, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Journey with the wardong/crow through an exhibition of mourning, orientation and healing.

Colourful paper cut silhouettes of faces on side profile layered on top of each other.
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Uninvited to the mainstage: the unfortunate consequence of approaching diversity without respect

New diversity initiatives shouldn’t disregard the history of older artists and arts workers fighting in this space.

Two self-portraits of the artist sitting on chairs facing away from the viewer, all in a monochrome pinky-red. They are overlaid with semi-transparent writing which says "Is there a labour crisis in Australia today? Well that depends on what you mean by crisis".
Opinions & Analysis

Artist burnout is not a mental health issue – it is a labour issue

Reframing burnout in labour terms would implicitly shift our approach to advocacy around artist well-being.

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