Gina Fairley
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How wall colour manipulates the audience
ArtsHub speaks with six curators on the merits of painting gallery walls to heighten audience engagement, build narrative or just…

It's a new dawn, it's a new day - CIAF is a frontier for artistic sustainability
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, we speak with Artistic Director of Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Janina Harding on how remote communities…

Review: Unfinished Business, Canberra Contemporary Art Space (ACT)
This exhibition demonstrates the importance of experimental art spaces supporting solid and sustained local practice in the shadow of the…

Review: The Invisible Hand, 4A Gallery (NSW)
Freaked out about identity theft via your devices? This exhibition offers a darkly humourous twist on living with technology and…

NGA opens coffers for Indonesian art
The National Gallery of Australia unveils its largest acquisition of contemporary Indonesian art with an exhibition that shifts the lens…

Review: Madama Butterfly, Opera Australia (NSW)
The blend of tradition with innovation and technology ushers us into a new era – there is no going back…

On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
New CEO for Australia Copyright Council, meet ACMI's new President, Jewish Museum and Bus Stop Films farewell CEOs, plus other…

Rethinking NSW Arts Funding to put the sector first
Responding to feedback from the sector, the NSW Minister for the Arts has reworked how grants are assessed and delivered,…

Review: The Quiet Activist: Juno Gemes Survey, Macquarie University Art Gallery
Aptly titled 'The Quiet Activist', this survey by Juno Gemes does more than capture a social or political zeitgeist –…

Australia’s Culture Building Boom: Galleries
Are Australian galleries feeling the pressure to sign a starchitect in the global building boom, or are they responding to…