Painting
![Photograph of an iceberg.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Elaine-Batton-Ice-Whip1.png?w=310)
Exhibition review: Samira Khadivizand, Elaine Batton and Bridie Nelson, Artemisia Gallery and Event Space
A relatively new art gallery in Melbourne’s inner-south once again proves it attracts some of Australia’s best emerging artists.
![Live wedding painter Rebekka Lord-John. Black and white photo of a woman with long straight hair, looking down at the canvas she is painting on. The photo is digitally manipulated to be on top of a purple background, with the words 'so you want my arts job?'](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/SYWMAJ-2024-18July.jpg?w=310)
So you want my arts job: Live Wedding Painter
Do you have the skills to spend five to seven hours painting at a wedding? Live wedding painter Rebekka Lord-Johnson…
![A canvas painting of gradations of different shades of blue.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Paula-Payne-2022-The-Pause-acrylic-on-canvas-140x200cm-0726-HR-31.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Paula Irene Payne, Logan Art Gallery
In her collage approach to depicting wetlands and tidal zones, Paula Irene Payne pays homage to Brett Whiteley.
![paintings in gallery space. Clara Adolphs](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Clara-Adolphs-Ngununggula3.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Together Again: Clara Adolphs, Ngununggula
An ambitious exhibition that explores the human condition through painted found images.
![A painting of three young boys with their backs to us. The first one has a red and blue T-shirt and blue shorts. The other two are bare chested with dark-coloured shorts.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Michael-Thomson_An-encounter-on-the-path-that-leads-to-the-river_oil-on-canvas_180x150cm-900x563px.jpg?w=310)
Artist-First art prize offers more support and fewer restrictions
The Basil Sellers Art Prize is pioneering cultural change in art prize practice with its Artist-First approach.
![Red coloured photographic portrait of a man from mid 19th century. Gauguin](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Paul-Gauguin-wearing-a-Breton-vest-1891-bw-photo-French-Photographer-19th-century-Bridgeman-images-e1720569134789.webp?w=310)
Everything other than Gauguin: addressing the dilemma
We listen, we learn, we ponder, we argue with ourselves and, hopefully by the end of it, we gain a…
![Gallery with cement floors and colour landscape paintings. Arthur Boyd.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Bundanon2024WilderTimesphotoZanWimberley-009.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Wilder Times, Bundanon
What were you doing in 1984? This exhibition positions Arthur Boyd's iconic landscapes alongside other artists of the day.
![Gallery with grey walls displaying bright tropical paintings by Gauguin.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Gauguins-World_-Tona-Iho-Tona-Ao-installation-view-print-version.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Gauguin's World, National Gallery of Australia
Gauguin may have lived abroad, but did he ever really leave Paris? This exhibition explains.
![Two people looking at colourful abstract paintings in gallery. Crowley Balson.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Crowley-Balson-NGV-Tom-Ross-27.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson, NGV Australia
NGV Australia walks us through the history of Australian abstraction through the paintings of Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson.
![Exterior of old building with contemporary mirror entry. The Potter.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Architectural-render-of-the-Potter-Museum-of-Art-The-Potter-redeveloped-by-Wood-Marsh-Architects.webp?w=310)
The Potter announces reopening exhibition for 2025
The Potter Museum of Art will reopen in 2025 with an epic rewriting of art history.