Gina Fairley
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HOME is where the art is
HOME celebrates artists from a refugee background and aims to provide them with professional development opportunities in the creative sector.
Feeling the impact of cultural tourism beyond the majors
Artshub takes a look at how the rise of cultural tourism is trickling into regional Australia and towards bespoke individual…
Sheilas in the art market – gender bias goes commercial
Sydney Contemporary art fair was the setting for a long overdue debate on ‘gender discounting’ within the contemporary art market.
Artists who use the politicised body in their art
A recent panel discussion at Sydney Contemporary unpacked the ideas around how the performed body can either uphold or defy…
Metamorphosis: How a visual artist became an opera designer
Artist-come-designer Mark Thompson has created the sets and costumes for Opera Australia’s new production ‘Metamorphosis’, based on Kafka’s iconic novel
Australia Council delivers $6.3 million to Australian artists
Female artists lead the way in the latest Australia Council grants, with female artists receiving more than half the project…
Review: National Art – Part One, at NAS Gallery
Building upon a teaching and touring archive, 50 artists have gifted significant artworks to the National Art School Collection. Those…
Cracking the US market: Art Money’s Paul Becker on changing the culture of collecting
An Australian art business takes on the toughest art market in the world – and it’s making waves.
Gender parity questioned as 7 major exhibitions announced
Is it just uncanny timing, or does the recent two weeks of announcements of major exhibitions at top drawer institutions…
Jan Müller on how a sound and film archive can be relevant
A year in, ArtsHub speaks with the National Sound and Film Archive’s new CEO on how exhibitions and digitisation are…