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‘DESTINY’, installation view at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, 2020-21. Photo: Tom Ross.
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First Nations multimedia artist and political activist dies aged 67

Mob and arts sector colleagues mourn the loss of the renowned First Nations artist.

A black and white photograph pf a young boy singing into a microphone in a recording studio.
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This week’s arts news and trending topics

Our weekly wrap of the stories our readers loved as well as those you may have missed.

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BookPeople marks its centenary year

The peak body for Australian booksellers celebrates a milestone birthday.

Esther Forest, ‘The Pet Shop’, 2023 single channel video with audio, on view at 2024 Hatched National Graduate Show at PICA. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. Still from a video work featuring a cartoonish figure on the phone in a room with blue and purple lighting, filled with posters of animals.
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Which graduate artists have got their fingers on the pulse?

Over 20 graduate artists are showing the critical topics they have chosen to engage with at PICA’s 2024 Hatched: National…

Deaf Indigenous Dance Group dancers Leslie Footscray, Nathaniel Murray and others rehearsing in Cairns, 2021. Photo: Sean Davey. A black and white photo of First People dancers rehearsing in a room.
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Deaf Indigenous Dance Group celebrates 27-year history at State Library

The Far North Queensland Deaf Indigenous Dance Group empowers d/Deaf First Nations artists through Culture and dance.

Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize People's Choice winning work 'Six is the loneliest number' by Jessica Murtagh. Photo: Supplied. Glass globes with intricately painted leaves in green, black and gold.
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Opportunities and awards

Grants up to $50,000 for First Nations creatives, plus winners of NSW Premier's Literary Awards, finalists of 2024 NATSIAA, and…

Image is an older white woman with shoulder length hair and grey at the temples. She wears a pearl necklace and a V white scoop neck top with a grey leaf pattern on it and is looking off to the right. The portrait, among two other works of Gina Rinehart, are reproduced in Vincent Namatjira's monograph. Image: Supplied, courtesy Thames & Hudson.
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Gina Rinehart's own creativity revisited as she attacks Namatjira's portrait

Do you remember Gina Rinehart's poem 'Our Future'? Here it is, for those who missed it when it first came…

Arts sector appointments. A dynamic photograph of waves rising and falling as they roll forward towards the unseen shore.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

A new Chief Conductor, new Board members, and other arts sector comings and goings from around the country.

Handwriting. Typing. Image is a glass jar against a black background, filled with a variety of pens and pencils.
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New research shows handwriting as important as typing for children

A hybrid of digital skills and traditional pen(cil) and paper is recommended for optimal learning.

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100 Story Building has a new address in Melbourne's west

A new home in Melbourne's west for a creative writing centre for the young.

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