Visual Arts

Arts news watch: this week's trending topics
We report it – you read it. Keep your eye on this week's top arts news stories.

Defining First Nations exhibitions that will shape 2025
A calendar of must-see First Nations art exhibitions in 2025.

First Nations curator Nici Cumpston to lead US collection
She will be Kluge-Ruhe's first First Nations Director in its 26-year history.

Gordon Darling Foundation
Visual Arts General Grants
The Gordon Darling Foundation is a perpetual public charitable trust, established in 1991 to "support Australia-wide, activities of importance in…

Gasworks Arts Park
Exhibit at Gasworks Arts Park
Exhibitions by established and emerging artists rotate every three weeks in this gallery space.

Hadley's Orient Hotel
Hadley's Art Prize call for entries
$100,000 Australian landscape art prize. Other prizes include a one-month residency prize, honourable mentions, and a people's choice award. Entries…

Opportunities and awards
$130,000 portrait prize open for entries, plus winners of the Sydney Theatre Awards, finalists of the Novel Prize, and more!

Kabuku PR
Re-Story(ing) Oceania
Following a captivating presentation in Venice’s Ocean Space last year, Re- Stor(y)ing Oceania returns home to the Pacific at Artspace…

13 cracker museum exhibitions in 2025
Shift your perspective on the world in 2025, and visit a museum. Here are 13 hot shows for the diary.

Prizes and competitions to enter in 2025
A go-to list of prizes and competitions across the visual arts, performing arts and writing, periodically updated.