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Adam Elliot at work. A grey scale close up of a face with a bald head, closed eyes and huge ears, being drawn with a pen and hand completing the drawing.
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'Where do they all belong?' Adam Elliot on his inspiration and first solo exhibition

How Oscar-winning Australian artist Adam Elliot uses art to highlight neurodiversity and mental health and promote his own mental wellbeing.

14th Art from the Heart of the Cross exhibition organised by MSIC, themed 'People Before Politics'. An artwork featuring a panda with a cigarette in its mouth and doing graffiti.
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Exhibition puts 'People Before Politics' as NSW Drug Summit draws near

The show seeks to address the taboo of talking about drug use through artworks that focus on self-expression.

'Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis' installation view at ACCA. A room with gray walled filled with large paintings. In the left corner is an area with a black sofa and small video projected on the wall.
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Exhibition review: Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis, ACCA

The Tennant Creek Brio artistic collective presents a landmark survey with reclaimed mining maps and a wasteland archangel.

Street banners for the annual Banyule Open Studios weekend. Several bright yellow banners with the logo of a large rainbow eye at the centre, laying on the lawn. There is the tag line ‘Step into the Artists’ World’ and the dates ‘Oct 12-13’.
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Artists erased from open studio event to maintain integrity in Council election

Artist and candidate Martin Hirst says the Banyule City Council has overstepped its responsibility in its 'knee-jerk' reaction during the…

The ‘Linear Horizons’ cohort in Gimuy/Cairns, taking part in a First Nations and Filipino printmaking initiative. In the photo is a group of 17 people standing under a large tree outside.
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Sharing stories and culture: Filipino and First Nations printmaking initiative takes off

Hosted by NorthSite in Gimuy/Cairns, ‘Linear Horizons’ aims to foster stronger intercultural connections through printmaking.

A young First Nations boy with red and white striped face paint across his brow and a green brimmed hat, and a ragged denim sleeveless jacket roars at the camera. The Future and Other Fictions. the Love Punks, Sutu
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From Björk to Blade Runner 2049: revisioning the future at ACMI

The Future & Other Fictions is a major new exhibition focused on screen culture’s ability to imagine a better world.

An inverted triangle with a chunk taken out of it is covered with black and white print and sitting on a small plinth. A white spotlight is shining on it.
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Exhibition review: Bandarr Wirrpanda and Yinimala Gumana: Timeless, MAGMA Galleries

MAGMA Galleries showcases spectacular contemporary Indigenous Australian art

2024 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship recipient Leigh Rigozzi in front of 'The Complete Works of Pieter Bruegel 2022-2024'. Rigozzi is a man with fair skin, short cropped brown hair and a graying beard, wearing black rimmed glasses and a speckled shirt, smiling at the camera and standing in front of a series of colourful illustrations.
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Opportunities and awards

Canberra Theatre Centre seeking performance makers, 2024 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards winners and ARA Historical Novel prize shortlist, plus…

A white walled gallery space showing a series of large minimalist abstract paintings that have white, grey and cream colours.
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The case for 'quiet paintings' in turbulent times

The allure of abstract art is a mysterious thing. But an artist with 50+ years’ experience in the genre sheds…

Person in gallery with pastel coloured abstract paintings. Lesley Dumbrell
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Exhibition review: Lesley Dumbrell: Thrum, five decades of practice at AGNSW

'Thrum' perfectly describes the consistent vibration and pure pleasure at the heart of Dumbrell's practice for five decades.

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