Visual Arts

'Grow your culture – make it big enough to support all of you'
Curators, arts administrators and artists share their strategies for improving diversity in the art world.

Jamie Preisz awarded Archibald Packing Room Prize for portrait of Jimmy Barnes
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced the winner of the 2018 Packing Room Prize.

Review: 2018 Varuna Sydney Writers’ Festival
Diverse, fresh, and vivid voices animate this extraordinary writers’ festival.

10,000 native plants to feature at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
A multi-sensory living installation displaying endangered Indigenous Australian grassland species will interrogate architecture’s responsibility to environmental rehabilitation.

The necessary discomfort in the labour of making art
Three artists discuss the physical and emotional labours of their work.

Fringe World moves to assist artists after JumpClimb fiasco
With artists owed $200,000 following the collapse of independent event management company, JumpClimb, Fringe World is taking action to assist.

VIC budget injects $78.7 million of new funding into creative industries
Aboriginal festivals and events across Victoria will be supported with a $1 million investment as part of new initiatives in…

Applause: latest success stories
Art Music Fund awards composers; Geelong Contemporary Art Prize shortlist announced; programmers chosen for Inaugural Edinburgh Exchange, and more.

How important is a fixed address to creative survival?
Independent artists and small arts organisations talk about the allure of bricks and mortar versus the flexibility of working nomadically…

Career advice to your younger self
Six experts in the industry answer the question: What advice would you offer your younger self? Here are their answers.