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Model and crew backstage for the Melbourne Fashion Festival. A tall female model with pale skin and red lips is wearing a red satin dress with a large floral feature over her chest, while the crew adjusts something around her ear.
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Fashion, craft and design calendar 2025

What’s on in fashion, craft and design this year, including exhibitions, fashion festivals, design weeks and makers' markets.

Installation view of 'Cats & Dogs' on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. A salon hang of staggering artworks on a white wall with three onlookers.
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Exhibition review: Cats & Dogs, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Think you know all there is to know about cats and dogs? Think again.

Billy Bain, 'From the Area', 2024, work in development, new commission for 'Spot the Difference' at Penrith Regional Gallery. An artist working on a sculpture shaped like a yowling panther.
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Cats and dogs and panthers and dingoes – animal lovers get ready for a season of exhibitions

Three exhibitions invite animal lovers to the galleries this spring.

Installation view of 'REKOSPECTIVE: The Art of Reko Rennie' at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. Paintings and pole-like sculptures with colourful stripes in a white-walled gallery space where two visitors are viewing the artworks.
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Exhibition review: REKOSPECTIVE: The Art of Reko Rennie, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

While offering eye candy aplenty, this survey of Kamilaroi artist Reko Rennie dives into his practice as an act of…

'Nina Sanadze', installation view at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia'. Photo: ArtsHub. In a gallery space with grey walls and tiled floors there are several large installations, including anti-terror barriers that appear like concrete spheres and rectangular blocks, scatters of monuments and sculptures.
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Exhibition review: Nina Sanadze, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

A succinct but multilayered survey of an artist who challenges history and perception.

Installation view of Wurrdha Marra on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 12 October 2023. Photo: Tom Ross.
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First Nations display renews in vision and scope

Wurrdha Marra at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is an ever-evolving space to create new encounters with First Nations…

Liam Young. Image shows room with purple hues and large screens angled away from the viewer.
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Exhibition review: Liam Young: Planetary Redesign, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia

As climate chaos ignites more panic, drastic measures are presented to completely reimagine the planet’s future.

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Blockbuster survey of Victorian art and design returns a decade on

Melbourne Now 2023 will showcase new and exciting works by local artists and designers working across Victoria today.