Visual Arts
Applause: Latest funding and awards announced
tidal.18 award winner announced, Dancenorth's Artistic Director wins 2019 Arts and Culture Award, plus Manus Island detainee wins Vic Premier's…
Review: Borrowed Scenery, Campbelltown Arts Centre
A regional gallery rethinks its collecting future by commissioning a gender audit, and dives deep into timely narratives about its…
Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues postpones 30th anniversary celebrations until 2020
The festival has cancelled its 2019 iteration, pushing back its 30th anniversary until next year in order to develop new…
How AGNSW’s 2019 program speaks to its future vision
From icons Marcel Duchamp and Takashi Murakami, to projects new and old defining the Australian visual art landscape, the Art…
On the Move: the latest appointments and resignations
New GM for Next Wave, Speak Percussion looses Artistic Director, Board changes for Australian Writers Guild, and more
ICYMI: this week’s art news in brief
Program launches galore, including Ten Days on the Island, Adelaide Writers’ Week, Co3 Australia and Art Month Sydney, and more.
Just Not Australian! How artists are rethinking nationhood in turbulent times
A new exhibition at Artspace Sydney calls it straight when it comes to the origins and implications of contemporary Australian…
Vale Mrs Ngallametta
Late to her painting career, Ngallametta rapidly rose to become one of Australia’s leading Indigenous artists. She died this week…
$42,000 prize asks artists to respond to Biblical theme
The Mandorla Art Award is a Christian contemporary art prize which asks artists to respond creatively to a specific piece…
The contemporary still life award that’s resonating with Australian artists
Still: National Still Life Award, presented by Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, has garnered attention from Australia's most prominent artists and…