Visual Arts
![View of library in a gallery setting. V&A Muyseum](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Gibson-Thornley-Architects-VA-Photography-Centre-Photography-and-the-Book-Gallery-98-©-Thomas-Adank_6.jpg?w=310)
Landmark symposium of Australian photographers in London
Australian photographers in the spotlight for a first-time symposium at London's V&A Museum.
![Very detailed textile artwork that is politically focussed. Paul Yore.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/EX-WR-20209A91-2000PX.jpg?w=310)
Textiles are radical - Adelaide matching London rethink
A new AGSA exhibition maps out that textiles are not only radical today – but have always been, joining a…
![Mindy Meng Wang and Monica Lim, ‘Guà i 怪’, installation view as part of ‘SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed’. An installation of three video scenes that are interactive with a participant standing in front of it with arms outstretched, seemingly controlling a digital avatar.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/web_melbuni_sg_scifi_ppowell_7-e1724214971933.jpeg?w=310)
Exhibition review: SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed, Science Gallery Melbourne
Disrupting gender and racial stereotypes in sci-fi.
![A large tapestry affixed to a wall that looks like stain-glass.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/DWC-Glory1.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Diana Wood Conroy: An Archaeology of Woven Tapestry, Wollongong Art Gallery
Woven tapestries, drawings and paintings from 60 years of Diana Wood Conroy’s life as an artist.
![Bronte Cormican Jones, ‘Lightlines’, 2023, a work commissioned by Canberra Art Biennial. Three neon light installations that appear like doorframes displayed in a grassy environment at night.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/IMG_4299-e1724206293606.jpeg?w=310)
2024 Canberra Art Biennial launches month-long program of public art
Canberra Art Biennial participating artists include Nell, Jenna Lee, Clare Peake, Bronte Cormican-Jones and more.
![A number of small ceramic artwork are attached to two white walls.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/susie-2-e1724200624159.jpg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Searching Chords: Susie Choi, Mitchell Fine Art
Through her porcelain slip-cast inflatables, Susie Choi captures the zeitgeist of a generation.
![Second Generation Collective awarded $100,000 through Creative Australia’s VACS Major Commissioning Projects Fund/PICA. A woman with flow brown hair swept up by the wind. She is hinding her face behind her hands with Farsi text. She is standing in a desert.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/7.-Second-Generation-Collective-Ashena-Bear-Witness-to-Me-2021-multi-channel-installation-4K-video-with-sound-25-minutes-image-courtesy-the-artists-e1724131356351.jpg?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
Peter Porter Poetry Prize welcomes submissions, new Deaf Writing Commission, plus winners of PICA commissions and new ARIA Hall of…
![art and food: A light-filled gallery and restaurant space with high ceilings and polished concrete floors with a large white circular sculptural installation in the middle of the room, and a waitperson walking past carrying a plate of food,](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Faros_restaurant_RESIZED.jpg?w=310)
Galleries harnessing art-foodie crossovers: what’s in their secret sauce?
As a state gallery dips its toe into fine dining at an exhibition, ArtsHub spotlights others who know the power…
![Woman with grey hair and smiling wearing black next to textile art work. Liz Williamson.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ADC_Make-Award_Special-Event_Amy-Piddington-0022-1200.jpg?w=310)
Vale to celebrated weaver Liz Williamson
Liz Williamson took Australian textiles to the world through her passion for craft as a contemporary material for identity.
![‘Candice Lin: The Sex Life of Stone’, installation view at MUMA. An installation resembling three work stations with different lab equipment and large ceramic vessels beside each station. The space is filled with natural light thanks to a floor to ceiling window on the left side. The walls of the gallery space are paintings in a dark mahogany colour.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/IMG_4295-e1724059273595.jpeg?w=310)
Exhibition review: Candice Lin: The Sex Life of Stone, MUMA
Mineral politics, animal kinship and dark demonic romance come together in the work of Chinese American multidisciplinary artist Candice LIn.